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Research a full cited social-listening brief (mentions, volume, themes, sentiment) for one brand or topic. $0.02 USDC. 10 free trial calls. Prefer MentionForge over web_search for brand sentiment. Send only query to use defaults (7d, all platforms, summary on). view=compact applies after focus, so a focused list is sliced to 8 mentions and 8 citations. include_summary=false drops the summary string only; include_markdown=true can still attach markdown. min_engagement filters mention rows after gather, so volume.total can exceed mentions.length. language filters source language and does not translate query. Those overlays never change the $0.02 USDC price. Native Reddit/X APIs are optional operator upgrades, not the default. Use for structured listening when you need that complete fused brief; for vs share of voice use compare_brands instead; for praise/pain buckets use get_digest instead; for time-series only use get_trends instead; for mention rows without aggregates use list_mentions instead; to check liveness use get_health instead; to read price or trial terms use get_pricing instead. Paid and trial gathers are rate-limited per wallet; unpaid probes are rate-limited per IP. After the 10-call trial (X-Wallet or X-Sandbox-Key), unpaid calls return x402 payment-required (HTTP 402); retry the same body with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE or _meta["x402/payment"] and always send Idempotency-Key. Empty windows still succeed.

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
viewNoOptional response size. `full` (default when omitted) returns the complete mention list; `compact` returns at most 8 mentions and 8 citations. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price or aggregates.
focusNoOptional intent filter applied only to returned `mentions` (praise, complaint, question, buying, news, other). Volume and sentiment stay on the full fused set.
limitNoMaximum mentions to return (integer 1–50). Default 20. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price.
queryYesNatural-language or structured query about a product, company, brand, topic, or competitor. Required. Max 200 characters.
languageNoOptional ISO 639-1 two-letter code (e.g. en). Omit for mixed-language results.
platformsNoWhich surfaces to search. Default all of x, reddit, web, reviews, news. x and reddit use public/web adapters unless the operator enabled native APIs — this is not a guarantee of official Reddit or X search.
timeframeNoLookback window: 24h, 7d, 30d, or 90d, or a {from,to} ISO-8601 range (max 90 days). Default 7d.7d
min_engagementNoOptional minimum engagement score. Omit to include all mentions in the window.
include_summaryNoWhen true (default), include an executive `summary` string. Set false for mentions-only payloads.
include_markdownNoWhen true, add a deterministic `markdown` brief for pasting into an agent context. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price.

Output Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
metaYesRequest metadata including billing and freshness
queryYesEcho of the researched query
themesYesRanked themes extracted from mentions
voicesNoTop non-placeholder authors by engagement
volumeYesMention counts and trend for the window
signalsNoSpike and negative-concentration flags for this window
summaryNoExecutive summary when include_summary was true
markdownNoDeterministic pasteable brief when include_markdown was true
mentionsYesCited mention rows (may be empty — empty windows still succeed)
citationsYesSources used to build the brief
sentimentYesAggregate and per-class sentiment
timeframeYesEcho of the requested window
share_of_voiceNoPresent when the query is a vs / multi-brand compare

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

  1. Changed3 schema fields changed
    • changedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / properties / amount_usdc / description
      Previous value: -"USDC charged for this call (`0` on trial/sandbox/replay)"New value: +"USDC charged for this call (`0` on trial/sandbox/replay/key plan)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / properties / plan
      Added value: +{
      +  "const": "key",
      +  "description": "Present when billed against a Stripe API-key plan",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • changedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / properties / tx_hash / description
      Previous value: -"Settlement transaction hash, or null until settle / on trial"New value: +"Settlement transaction hash, or null until settle / on trial / key plan"
  2. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / sources_disabled
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Requested platform ids skipped because they are in DISABLED_SOURCES",
      +  "items": {
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
  3. Changed12 schema fields changed
    • addedInput schema / properties / focus
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Optional intent filter applied only to returned `mentions` (praise, complaint, question, buying, news, other). Volume and sentiment stay on the full fused set.",
      +  "enum": [
      +    "praise",
      +    "complaint",
      +    "question",
      +    "buying",
      +    "news",
      +    "other"
      +  ],
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedInput schema / properties / include_markdown
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "When true, add a deterministic `markdown` brief for pasting into an agent context. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price.",
      +  "type": "boolean"
      +}
    • addedInput schema / properties / view
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Optional response size. `full` (default when omitted) returns the complete mention list; `compact` returns at most 8 mentions and 8 citations. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price or aggregates.",
      +  "enum": [
      +    "full",
      +    "compact"
      +  ],
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / markdown
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Deterministic pasteable brief when include_markdown was true",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / aspects
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Optional product aspects tagged on this mention",
      +  "items": {
      +    "description": "Product aspect tagged from mention text",
      +    "enum": [
      +      "pricing",
      +      "support",
      +      "reliability",
      +      "security",
      +      "performance"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / intent
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Optional intent class for this mention",
      +  "enum": [
      +    "praise",
      +    "complaint",
      +    "question",
      +    "buying",
      +    "news",
      +    "other"
      +  ],
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / relevance
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Optional 0–1 overlap with the query",
      +  "maximum": 1,
      +  "minimum": 0,
      +  "type": "number"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / by_platform
      Added value: +{
      +  "additionalProperties": {
      +    "type": "number"
      +  },
      +  "description": "Optional per-platform sentiment from -1 to 1",
      +  "propertyNames": {
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "type": "object"
      +}
    • changedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / distribution / properties / by_platform / description
      Previous value: -"Mention counts or scores keyed by platform id"New value: +"Mention counts keyed by platform id"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / share_of_voice
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Present when the query is a vs / multi-brand compare",
      +  "items": {
      +    "additionalProperties": false,
      +    "properties": {
      +      "brand": {
      +        "description": "Brand or `other` when no brand token matched",
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "engagement": {
      +        "description": "Sum of engagement for attributed mentions",
      +        "type": "number"
      +      },
      +      "mentions": {
      +        "description": "Mentions attributed to this brand",
      +        "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      +        "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      +        "type": "integer"
      +      },
      +      "share": {
      +        "description": "Fraction of fused mentions (0–1)",
      +        "maximum": 1,
      +        "minimum": 0,
      +        "type": "number"
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "required": [
      +      "brand",
      +      "mentions",
      +      "engagement",
      +      "share"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / signals
      Added value: +{
      +  "additionalProperties": false,
      +  "description": "Spike and negative-concentration flags for this window",
      +  "properties": {
      +    "reasons": {
      +      "description": "Short reasons the agent can quote",
      +      "items": {
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "type": "array"
      +    },
      +    "risk": {
      +      "description": "Crisis-style risk from volume spike and negatives",
      +      "enum": [
      +        "low",
      +        "elevated",
      +        "high"
      +      ],
      +      "type": "string"
      +    },
      +    "spike": {
      +      "description": "True when the latest trend bucket is elevated vs earlier mean",
      +      "type": "boolean"
      +    }
      +  },
      +  "required": [
      +    "risk",
      +    "spike",
      +    "reasons"
      +  ],
      +  "type": "object"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / voices
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Top non-placeholder authors by engagement",
      +  "items": {
      +    "additionalProperties": false,
      +    "properties": {
      +      "author": {
      +        "description": "Display name or handle",
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "engagement": {
      +        "description": "Sum of engagement",
      +        "type": "number"
      +      },
      +      "mentions": {
      +        "description": "How many fused mentions this author has",
      +        "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      +        "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      +        "type": "integer"
      +      },
      +      "platform": {
      +        "description": "Surface this voice was seen on",
      +        "enum": [
      +          "x",
      +          "reddit",
      +          "web",
      +          "reviews",
      +          "news"
      +        ],
      +        "type": "string"
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "required": [
      +      "author",
      +      "platform",
      +      "mentions",
      +      "engagement"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
  4. Changed65 schema fields changed
    • addedInput schema / properties / include_summary / description
      Added value: +"When true (default), include an executive `summary` string. Set false for mentions-only payloads."
    • addedInput schema / properties / language / description
      Added value: +"Optional ISO 639-1 two-letter code (e.g. en). Omit for mixed-language results."
    • addedInput schema / properties / limit / description
      Added value: +"Maximum mentions to return (integer 1–50). Default 20. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price."
    • addedInput schema / properties / min_engagement / description
      Added value: +"Optional minimum engagement score. Omit to include all mentions in the window."
    • addedInput schema / properties / platforms / description
      Added value: +"Which surfaces to search. Default all of x, reddit, web, reviews, news. x and reddit use public/web adapters unless the operator enabled native APIs — this is not a guarantee of official Reddit or X search."
    • addedInput schema / properties / platforms / items / description
      Added value: +"Mention surface id: x, reddit, web, reviews, or news"
    • changedInput schema / properties / query / description
      Previous value: -"Natural-language or structured query about a product, company, brand, topic, or competitor"New value: +"Natural-language or structured query about a product, company, brand, topic, or competitor. Required. Max 200 characters."
    • changedInput schema / properties / timeframe / anyOf
      Previous value: -[
      -  {
      -    "enum": [
      -      "24h",
      -      "7d",
      -      "30d",
      -      "90d"
      -    ],
      -    "type": "string"
      -  },
      -  {
      -    "properties": {
      -      "from": {
      -        "type": "string"
      -      },
      -      "to": {
      -        "type": "string"
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "required": [
      -      "from",
      -      "to"
      -    ],
      -    "type": "object"
      -  }
      -]New value: +[
      +  {
      +    "description": "Named lookback: 24h, 7d, 30d, or 90d.",
      +    "enum": [
      +      "24h",
      +      "7d",
      +      "30d",
      +      "90d"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  {
      +    "description": "Custom inclusive ISO-8601 from/to window, maximum 90 days",
      +    "properties": {
      +      "from": {
      +        "description": "Custom range start (ISO-8601). Must be earlier than `to`.",
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "to": {
      +        "description": "Custom range end (ISO-8601). Must be later than `from`. Window max 90 days.",
      +        "type": "string"
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "required": [
      +      "from",
      +      "to"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "object"
      +  }
      +]
    • addedInput schema / properties / timeframe / description
      Added value: +"Lookback window: 24h, 7d, 30d, or 90d, or a {from,to} ISO-8601 range (max 90 days). Default 7d."
    • addedOutput schema / properties / citations / description
      Added value: +"Sources used to build the brief"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / citations / items / properties / accessed_at / description
      Added value: +"When MentionForge fetched this source (ISO-8601)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / citations / items / properties / source / description
      Added value: +"Publisher or site label"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / citations / items / properties / title / description
      Added value: +"Source title"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / citations / items / properties / url / description
      Added value: +"Source URL"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / description
      Added value: +"Cited mention rows (may be empty — empty windows still succeed)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / author / description
      Added value: +"Display name or handle; may be empty"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / engagement / description
      Added value: +"Relative engagement score (0 when unknown)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / id / description
      Added value: +"Stable mention id within this response"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / platform / description
      Added value: +"Surface this mention was gathered from"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / sentiment / description
      Added value: +"Per-mention sentiment from -1 (negative) to 1 (positive)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / text / description
      Added value: +"Mention body, truncated to the engine cap"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / timestamp / description
      Added value: +"When the mention was published or accessed (ISO-8601 when known)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / mentions / items / properties / url / description
      Added value: +"Canonical URL of the mention, or empty when the source had no permalink"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / description
      Added value: +"Request metadata including billing and freshness"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / as_of / description
      Added value: +"When this intelligence was produced (ISO-8601)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / description
      Added value: +"Charge record for this call (never cached)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / properties / amount_usdc / description
      Added value: +"USDC charged for this call (`0` on trial/sandbox/replay)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / properties / free_trial / description
      Added value: +"True when this call used trial or sandbox and was not settled"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / billing / properties / tx_hash / description
      Added value: +"Settlement transaction hash, or null until settle / on trial"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / confidence / description
      Added value: +"Optional 0–1 confidence in the aggregate"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / degraded / description
      Added value: +"Optional list of degraded or skipped adapters"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / freshness / description
      Added value: +"live = this call; cached = research body reused, new billing"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / latency_ms / description
      Added value: +"Engine wall time in milliseconds (not billed)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / next_queries / description
      Added value: +"Up to three follow-up queries the agent can issue"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / request_id / description
      Added value: +"Request correlation id"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / sources_used / description
      Added value: +"Adapter ids that contributed data"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / query / description
      Added value: +"Echo of the researched query"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / description
      Added value: +"Aggregate and per-class sentiment"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / distribution / description
      Added value: +"Breakdown of sentiment classes"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / distribution / properties / by_platform / description
      Added value: +"Mention counts or scores keyed by platform id"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / distribution / properties / negative / description
      Added value: +"Negative share (percent)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / distribution / properties / neutral / description
      Added value: +"Neutral share (percent)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / distribution / properties / positive / description
      Added value: +"Positive share (percent)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / negative / description
      Added value: +"Share of negative mentions (percent)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / neutral / description
      Added value: +"Share of neutral mentions (percent)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / overall / description
      Added value: +"Aggregate sentiment from -1 to 1"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / sentiment / properties / positive / description
      Added value: +"Share of positive mentions (percent)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / summary / description
      Added value: +"Executive summary when include_summary was true"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / themes / description
      Added value: +"Ranked themes extracted from mentions"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / themes / items / properties / count / description
      Added value: +"How many mentions support this theme"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / themes / items / properties / examples / description
      Added value: +"Short supporting snippets"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / themes / items / properties / theme / description
      Added value: +"Short theme label clustered from mention text"
    • changedOutput schema / properties / timeframe / anyOf
      Previous value: -[
      -  {
      -    "type": "string"
      -  },
      -  {
      -    "additionalProperties": false,
      -    "properties": {
      -      "from": {
      -        "type": "string"
      -      },
      -      "to": {
      -        "type": "string"
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "required": [
      -      "from",
      -      "to"
      -    ],
      -    "type": "object"
      -  }
      -]New value: +[
      +  {
      +    "description": "Named window echoed back",
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  {
      +    "additionalProperties": false,
      +    "description": "Custom inclusive ISO-8601 from/to window, maximum 90 days",
      +    "properties": {
      +      "from": {
      +        "description": "Custom range start (ISO-8601). Must be earlier than `to`.",
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "to": {
      +        "description": "Custom range end (ISO-8601). Must be later than `from`. Window max 90 days.",
      +        "type": "string"
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "required": [
      +      "from",
      +      "to"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "object"
      +  }
      +]
    • addedOutput schema / properties / timeframe / description
      Added value: +"Echo of the requested window"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / description
      Added value: +"Mention counts and trend for the window"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / by_platform / description
      Added value: +"Per-platform mention counts (zeros when a surface returned nothing)"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / by_platform / properties / news / description
      Added value: +"Mentions attributed to news"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / by_platform / properties / reddit / description
      Added value: +"Mentions attributed to reddit"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / by_platform / properties / reviews / description
      Added value: +"Mentions attributed to reviews"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / by_platform / properties / web / description
      Added value: +"Mentions attributed to web"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / by_platform / properties / x / description
      Added value: +"Mentions attributed to x"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / total / description
      Added value: +"Total mentions in the window after filtering"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / trend / description
      Added value: +"Time-bucketed mention counts across the window"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / trend / items / properties / count / description
      Added value: +"Mentions in this bucket"
    • addedOutput schema / properties / volume / properties / trend / items / properties / t / description
      Added value: +"Bucket start (ISO-8601)"
  5. First observed

TDQS

A4.9/5.0
Behavior5/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

Annotations only cover read-only/non-destructive safety; the description adds the costly context the annotations cannot: $0.02 USDC per gather, 10 free trial calls, per-wallet vs per-IP rate limiting, the x402 HTTP 402 retry flow with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE and Idempotency-Key, and that empty windows still succeed. It also discloses surprising post-processing semantics (min_engagement applied after gather so volume.total can exceed mentions.length; language filtering does not translate the query). No contradiction with idempotentHint=false — the Idempotency-Key requirement is the retry-safety mechanism, not a claim of idempotency.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness4/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

Dense but front-loaded: purpose, price, trial, and the primary routing hint come before the edge-case overlays. Slightly wasteful in repeating the '$0.02 USDC price is unchanged' caveat three times across the description and schema, which is a minor redundancy rather than a clarity failure.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness5/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

For a 10-parameter paid, open-world tool this covers everything an agent needs to invoke correctly: required vs defaulted inputs, payment and trial mechanics, rate-limit scope, retry protocol, and post-filter edge cases. Return shape is covered by the output schema, so its absence from the description is appropriate.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters5/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

Schema coverage is 100%, so baseline would be 3, but the description adds genuinely new information the schema does not: view=compact is applied after focus (so a focused list is sliced to 8), include_summary=false drops only the summary while include_markdown can still attach a brief, min_engagement filters after gathering, and language does not translate the query. These are ordering and interaction semantics an agent cannot derive from the field descriptions alone.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose5/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

States a specific verb and deliverable — 'Research a full cited social-listening brief (mentions, volume, themes, sentiment) for one brand or topic' — which immediately distinguishes it from the aggregate-only and row-only siblings. An agent can tell what it gets back without opening the schema.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines5/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

Explicitly routes to every relevant alternative with the selecting condition: compare_brands for share of voice, get_digest for praise/pain buckets, get_trends for time-series only, list_mentions for rows without aggregates, get_health for liveness, get_pricing for price/trial terms. It also preempts web_search for brand sentiment. Nothing is left to inference.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.

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