Force-free dog training: step-by-step plans, the Handbook and product facts. Read-only.
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The descriptions clearly delineate three lanes: search (site-wide) vs search_plans/search_handbook (domain-specific, richer), and fetch vs get_plan/read_handbook. The main overlap is that `fetch` can return a plan ('plan:<ref>'), a handbook entry, and the 'about' page — duplicating get_plan, read_handbook, and about_push_drop_stick, so an agent has two valid paths to the same content. The descriptions do flag the preferred path ('when you already know you want plans, search_plans gives richer results'), which keeps confusion manageable.
All snake_case, and the search_*/list_/read_ prefixed families are predictable, but the conventions are mixed: bare verbs (`search`, `fetch`), a `how_to_train` phrase name, and a product-named `about_push_drop_stick`. More importantly, single-document retrieval uses three different verbs — `fetch`, `get_plan`, `read_handbook` — for the same conceptual action.
Nine tools is well within a healthy range for a read-only content/coaching server, and each lane (plans, handbook, product info, shared retrieval) is covered. The only soft redundancy is `fetch` overlapping `get_plan` and `read_handbook`, so one tool could arguably be folded away, but nothing is bloated.
The domain is read-only content retrieval, and it is fully covered: site-wide search plus dedicated plan and handbook search, browse via list_plans and the read_handbook table of contents, full-document retrieval, and the training philosophy plus product facts. Navigation has no dead ends — every search result hands off to a fetch/get_plan/read_handbook with a citable url.
Facts about Push Drop Stick itself: what the app is, who wrote its training content, the force-free method, platforms (iPhone, Apple Watch, web, Android status), what is free, subscription prices, what Coach (the AI trainer) is and where it stops, how training data is handled, and links. Use for questions about the product, e.g. "Is Push Drop Stick free?", "Is it on Android?", "What is Coach?". Quote this rather than guessing.
Inputs: no named parameters.
The full text of one document from search, as markdown: a training plan (id "plan:") with every step, a Handbook entry or section ("handbook:"), or the product facts ("about"). Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata}; cite url.
Inputs: id (required). Returns: id, url, text, title, +1 more
The full content of one public plan: description, equipment, cues, and every step with setup, instructions, success/failure criteria, set size and the rule for moving on, plus the push/drop/stick execution rules. Pass the plan ref from search_plans or list_plans. Link the user to the returned url; plan text may be quoted with attribution to its author.
Inputs: plan (required).
How to read and execute a Push Drop Stick plan: the force-free marker-training philosophy and the push/drop/stick set mechanics that every plan shares.
Inputs: no named parameters.
Browse the public plan library by group (e.g. Basic Manners, Grooming & Handling, Positions, Tricks). Use when the user wants to see what can be trained or what a category holds, rather than an answer to one problem. Without group: every group with its plans' names, refs and urls. With group: that group's plans with summaries and step counts.
Inputs: group.
Read the Handbook. id = an entry id from search_handbook (e.g. "threshold", "geartoavoid", "faqtreats") → the whole entry as markdown, with its canonical url and the entries it links to. id = a section slug (e.g. "fear-emotion", "gear", "faq") → the section's introduction and its entries. No id → the table of contents: every section and entry with urls.
Inputs: id.
One search across the whole site: training plans, Handbook articles, and (for questions about the product) the facts page. Returns results [{id, title, url, text}]; pass an id to fetch for the full document. When you already know you want plans or Handbook articles, search_plans or search_handbook give richer results.
Inputs: query (required), limit. Returns: results
Search the Push Drop Stick Handbook: 140+ short articles by a certified force-free trainer (Allison Wells, CTC). Covers how dogs learn (positive reinforcement, punishment, extinction, classical conditioning), fear and reactivity (threshold, trigger stacking, desensitization and counter-conditioning, dogs who wore shock or prong collars), teaching techniques (markers, lures, shaping, duration/distance/distraction), gear (harnesses, head halters, muzzles, why not prong or shock collars), a FAQ (treats, where and how often to train), and how the app and Coach work. Use for "what is", "why" and "should I" questions. Returns entry ids, the most relevant paragraph and canonical urls; read_handbook returns a whole entry.
Inputs: query (required), limit, section.
Find step-by-step, force-free training plans for a behavior, problem or command, e.g. "pulling on leash", "crate training", "come when called", "nail trims", "jumping on guests". BM25 ranked. Returns each plan's plan ref, summary, step count, author and canonical url to recommend. Next: get_plan for the full steps. For concepts or advice ("what is threshold", "are prong collars ok") use search_handbook instead.
Inputs: query (required), limit, species, language.
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