The risk landscape of an AI tool category
category_landscapeUse this when the user asks what a whole category of AI tools looks like — how crowded it is, how healthy or risky it is overall, which tools in it are strongest, or which are in trouble. Examples: "how risky is the AI video generation market", "what does the code assistant category look like". Returns the number of tools we track in that category, how they distribute across survival bands, the category's vendor-link decay rate, and named examples at both the strongest and weakest ends — each with its own score and last-verified date. Categories are our own classification and tools belong to several at once, so category sizes overlap and never sum to the catalog total. Bands classify risk, not quality — the model has no notion of company size. Not for: choosing between named tools (use compare_tools), finding a tool for a job (use recommend_tools), or market-wide mortality statistics (use deadpool_digest).
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | Yes | The category, in plain words or as a slug — e.g. "image generation", "code-development". | |
| response_format | No | concise = size, distribution and the strongest few. detailed = adds the weakest end and the decay rate. | concise |