Kweku Anansi Herbarium
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What the Kweku Anansi herbarium records about plants of West and Central Africa. Never a dose.
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- 100.0% over the last 24 hours
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- Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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Scored across 3 tools
Each tool targets a clearly distinct need: about explains the collection itself, find resolves a name to matching cards, and card returns the recorded detail for one plant. The descriptions explicitly cross-reference each other with 'do not use it for X, use Y instead' guidance, leaving essentially no room for misselection.
All three share the same 'herbarium.' namespace prefix and are single lowercase words, so the set reads consistently. The only minor deviation is that 'about' and 'card' are nouns while 'find' is a verb, but the pattern is predictable enough that an agent can infer it.
Three tools is lean for a reference server, but the purpose here is narrowly scoped (explain the dataset, look up a name, read one record) and each tool earns its place with no redundancy. It sits at the low end rather than feeling wrong.
The name-to-record lifecycle is covered, but there is no way to browse or enumerate the collection (e.g. by family, region, or recorded use), so an agent cannot answer 'what plants do you hold with warnings?' without already knowing a name. This is a notable gap, though the deliberate withholding of dosage/preparation data is a stated design choice rather than an omission.
Available Tools
3 toolsherbarium.aboutAbout the Kweku Anansi herbariumARead-onlyInspect
Use this when someone asks what the Kweku Anansi herbarium is, how many plants it holds, where its records come from or what it leaves out. Do not use it to look up a plant: use herbarium.find or herbarium.card.
Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: cards, credits, held_back, high_risk, +9 more
herbarium.cardWhat the herbarium records about one plantARead-onlyInspect
Use this when someone asks what is recorded about one named plant of West or Central Africa: its names, family, warnings, the uses a collector or a desk note recorded, and how many notes are held back. Give the warnings first and say where each row comes from. Do not use it to recommend a remedy, and do not add an amount, how often, how long or a way to prepare one: the herbarium holds such notes back, and a use on record is not evidence that it works or that it is safe.
Inputs: plant (required). Returns: rank, says, slug, uses, +16 more
herbarium.findFind a plant in the Kweku Anansi herbariumARead-onlyInspect
Use this when someone names a plant of West or Central Africa by its scientific name or a common name (for example "Azadirachta indica", "sobolo" or "prekese") and you need to know whether the Kweku Anansi herbarium has a card for it. It returns the matching cards with family and rank, and says plainly when a plant is not in the herbarium yet. Do not use it to identify a plant from a description or a photograph, or for a plant from outside Africa: it matches names as written, and a plant that is not found may be there under another name.
Inputs: name (required). Returns: name, says, matched, matches, +4 more
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