Making search tools concurrent

[sidnarayanan]

It is safe for search tools to run concurrently with each other, so this PR enables that.

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Pull Request Overview

This PR enables concurrent execution of search tools by introducing a CONCURRENCY_SAFE class variable to NamedTool and marking PaperSearch and ClinicalTrialsSearch as safe for concurrent execution. The change allows the agent to run multiple search operations in parallel, improving performance.

Key Changes:

• Added CONCURRENCY_SAFE class variable to NamedTool base class (defaults to False)
• Marked PaperSearch and ClinicalTrialsSearch as concurrency-safe
• Updated settings_to_tools to pass concurrency_safe flag when creating tools
• Changed Environment.step to enable concurrent tool execution

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
src/paperqa/agents/tools.py	Added CONCURRENCY_SAFE class variable and marked search tools as safe for concurrent execution; reformatted docstring formatting
src/paperqa/agents/env.py	Updated tool creation to pass concurrency_safe flag and enabled concurrent execution in step method
tests/test_agents.py	Updated test cases to include concurrency_safe parameter when creating tools; minor formatting cleanup
pyproject.toml	Updated fhaviary dependency version to support partial tool concurrency

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[jamesbraza]

Nice work, LGTM!