From c5e037b92c11a1f3d68c1b5159675cc43f3fc0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aakash Tembhare <tembhareaakash@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2026 16:06:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(tools): preserve configured content_types in
 GithubSearchTool

---
 .../github_search_tool/github_search_tool.py    |  6 ++++--
 .../tests/tools/test_search_tools.py            | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/github_search_tool/github_search_tool.py b/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/github_search_tool/github_search_tool.py
index 724c38edb0..deb6dbf75d 100644
--- a/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/github_search_tool/github_search_tool.py
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/github_search_tool/github_search_tool.py
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ def __init__(
         content_types: list[str] | None = None,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> None:
+        if content_types is not None:
+            kwargs["content_types"] = content_types
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
 
-        if github_repo and content_types:
-            self.add(repo=github_repo, content_types=content_types)
+        if github_repo:
+            self.add(repo=github_repo, content_types=self.content_types)
             self.description = f"A tool that can be used to semantic search a query the {github_repo} github repo's content. This is not the GitHub API, but instead a tool that can provide semantic search capabilities."
             self.args_schema = FixedGithubSearchToolSchema
             self._generate_description()
diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_search_tools.py b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_search_tools.py
index 533be1ea24..83d2fe4b6c 100644
--- a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_search_tools.py
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_search_tools.py
@@ -361,3 +361,20 @@ def test_github_search_tool(mock_adapter):
     mock_adapter.query.assert_called_once_with(
         "tell me about crewai repo", similarity_threshold=0.6, limit=5
     )
+
+    # ensure content_types configured at construction is retained on dynamic tool
+    mock_adapter.query.reset_mock()
+    mock_adapter.add.reset_mock()
+
+    tool = GithubSearchTool(
+        gh_token="test_token",
+        content_types=["repo"],
+        adapter=mock_adapter,
+    )
+    assert tool.content_types == ["repo"]
+    tool.add(repo="crewai/crewai")
+    mock_adapter.add.assert_called_once_with(
+        "https://github.com/crewai/crewai",
+        data_type=DataType.GITHUB,
+        metadata={"content_types": ["repo"], "gh_token": "test_token"},
+    )