[Bug] 1.11.0 fails to import on fresh install: bedrock_agentcore.evaluation triggers ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

[pratapmn]

[Bug] 1.11.0 fails to import on fresh install: bedrock_agentcore.evaluation triggers ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

Summary

After installing bedrock-agentcore==1.11.0 from PyPI into a clean virtual environment, importing anything from bedrock_agentcore.evaluation fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'. The new file src/bedrock_agentcore/evaluation/runner/dataset_providers.py (added in #491) does import requests at module load, but requests is not declared in the package's runtime dependencies — only in [dependency-groups.dev].

The runtime path (bedrock_agentcore.runtime) is unaffected, so the issue is scoped to the evaluation submodule.

Reproduction

python3.12 -m venv /tmp/repro && source /tmp/repro/bin/activate
pip install bedrock-agentcore==1.11.0
python -c "from bedrock_agentcore.evaluation import EvaluatorInput"

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File ".../site-packages/bedrock_agentcore/evaluation/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from bedrock_agentcore.evaluation.runner.batch.batch_evaluation_models import (
  File ".../site-packages/bedrock_agentcore/evaluation/runner/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .dataset_providers import DatasetProvider, FileDatasetProvider
  File ".../site-packages/bedrock_agentcore/evaluation/runner/dataset_providers.py", line 7, in <module>
    import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

Root cause

In pyproject.toml at v1.11.0, requests only appears in the dev-tools group:

[project]
dependencies = [
    "boto3>=1.43.0",
    "botocore>=1.43.0",
    "pydantic>=2.0.0,<2.41.3",
    "urllib3>=1.26.0",
    "starlette>=0.46.2",
    "typing-extensions>=4.13.2,<5.0.0",
    "uvicorn>=0.34.2",
    "websockets>=12.0",
]   # ← no `requests` here

[dependency-groups]
dev = [
    "httpx>=0.28.1",
    "moto>=5.1.6",          # transitively pulls in requests in dev environments
    ...
]

But src/bedrock_agentcore/evaluation/runner/dataset_providers.py line 7 imports it at the top of the module:

"""Dataset provider implementations for loading evaluation datasets."""

import json
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional

import requests   # ← runs on module load; runtime dep not declared

from bedrock_agentcore.evaluation.dataset_client import DatasetClient
...

Because evaluation/runner/__init__.py eagerly imports dataset_providers, and evaluation/__init__.py eagerly imports the runner, the failure surfaces on any first-touch of bedrock_agentcore.evaluation.*.

This was masked in CI / local development because moto (a dev-group dep) transitively installs requests, so it's already on the path inside the project's own venv.

Suggested fix

Either of:

Option A — declare the runtime dep

dependencies = [
    ...,
    "requests>=2.31",
]

Option B — make the import lazy (consistent with bedrock_agentcore/identity/auth.py:155, where import requests is already inside a function body)

class FileDatasetProvider(DatasetProvider):
    def fetch(self, url: str) -> ...:
        import requests
        return requests.get(url)

Option B is cleaner if requests is only used by FileDatasetProvider-like loaders — users who never load datasets from a remote URL wouldn't pay the dependency cost.

Environment

• bedrock-agentcore==1.11.0 (from PyPI, fresh install, no other packages)
• Python 3.12.12
• macOS 25.4 / uv 0.11.6 (also reproduces with pip per the steps above)
• Released 2026-05-22 ~15:27 UTC, no fix on main as of 2026-05-24

Workaround for downstream consumers

Until 1.11.1 ships, downstreams need to either pin bedrock-agentcore<1.11 or declare requests as a direct dep in their own package. We've taken the pin route in our internal eval wheel since we don't yet use any of the new DatasetClient / DatasetManagementServiceProvider symbols added in 1.11.0.

Related

• PR feat(evaluation): add DatasetClient and dataset management service provider #491 (the change that introduced the eager top-level import requests)

[saeekailas]

Fixed in PR #507.

Moved import requests from the module-level into the body of
DatasetManagementServiceProvider.get_dataset(), so it is only loaded
when actually needed. This way a fresh install without requests will no
longer crash on any import from bedrock_agentcore.evaluation.