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Tako: Search

tako_search
Read-onlyIdempotent

Search Tako's data graph and the live web in one call: many results at once, as structured cards plus web results. The first card's chart renders inline; some hosts also show every other card's chart, in search's order.

It finds results; tako_contents fetches what's behind them. Each card carries a headline value, node ids, and a url — pass the url to tako_contents for rows (exportable: true cards) or a web result's full page text. When exportable is false the rows are locked — read the headline value from the card's description.

Best for: breadth — fan out several narrow queries in parallel. Each query answers one question — one metric for one entity, a comparison set ("Apple revenue", "Nvidia vs AMD gross margin"), or one news or web lookup ("EU AI Act timeline"); several metrics or topics in one query retrieve poorly.

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
queryYesNatural-language search query (e.g. "US GDP growth", "Intel vs Nvidia revenue"). Double-quote a multi-word name to keep it one entity ("tesla motors" club revenue); an unpaired quote disables quoting. Website-traffic data is keyed by domain — query "openai.com monthly visits", not "OpenAI website visits".
localeNoBCP-47 locale tag for language and formatting. Omit it and the server uses en-US. Set it to localize for the user.
sourcesNoWhich corpora to search; default is both. Narrow to ["web"] only for news or page text — website traffic is in the data graph.
country_codeNoISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for localized results. Omit it and the server uses US. Set it to localize for the user.

Output Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
cardsYesThe data cards. Fetch an exportable card's rows with tako_contents on its url.
usageYesCost-plus usage for this request (null when not metered).
guidanceNoHow a keyless caller unlocks a placeholder card.
web_resultsYesWeb results.
source_notesNoWhat each source is and how it builds its data, keyed by source name.
metric_definitionsNoWhat each metric means (unit, basis, caveats), keyed by metric name, deduped across cards.

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

  1. Changed2 schema fields changed
    • changedInput schema / properties / sources / description
      Previous value: -"Which corpora to search; default is both. Narrow to [\"data\"] once `tako_available_data` confirms coverage; narrow to [\"web\"] only for news or page text — website traffic is in the data graph."New value: +"Which corpora to search; default is both. Narrow to [\"web\"] only for news or page text — website traffic is in the data graph."
    • changedOutput schema / properties / guidance / description
      Previous value: -"Zero-card verdict and next action, or how a keyless caller unlocks a placeholder card."New value: +"How a keyless caller unlocks a placeholder card."
  2. Changed1 schema field changed
    • changedOutput schema / properties / guidance / description
      Previous value: -"Zero-card responses only: what this response is evidence about, and the one next action."New value: +"Zero-card verdict and next action, or how a keyless caller unlocks a placeholder card."
  3. Changed43 schema fields changed
    • removedInput schema / properties / count
      Removed value: -{
      -  "default": 10,
      -  "description": "Maximum number of results to return per source (1-20).",
      -  "maximum": 20,
      -  "minimum": 1,
      -  "type": "integer"
      -}
    • removedInput schema / properties / country_code / default
      Removed value: -"US"
    • changedInput schema / properties / country_code / description
      Previous value: -"ISO country code for localized results."New value: +"ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for localized results. Omit it and the server uses US. Set it to localize for the user."
    • removedInput schema / properties / effort
      Removed value: -{
      -  "description": "Search effort: \"fast\" (default) or \"instant\" (fastest, serves cached embeds as-is). Omit for fast.",
      -  "enum": [
      -    "fast",
      -    "instant"
      -  ],
      -  "type": "string"
      -}
    • removedInput schema / properties / include_contents
      Removed value: -{
      -  "default": true,
      -  "description": "Inline each Tako card's data preview (default true; preview_rows sets how many rows). Set false — pointers-only, no rows — for large parallel fan-outs or when coverage is unconfirmed (no prior tako_available_data check). DATA source only; web page text is never auto-inlined (billed per page — use tako_contents). Full export is a separate tako_contents call, only for cards marked `exportable: true`.",
      -  "type": "boolean"
      -}
    • removedInput schema / properties / locale / default
      Removed value: -"en-US"
    • changedInput schema / properties / locale / description
      Previous value: -"Locale for results."New value: +"BCP-47 locale tag for language and formatting. Omit it and the server uses en-US. Set it to localize for the user."
    • removedInput schema / properties / node_ids
      Removed value: -{
      -  "description": "Graph node ids (from tako_available_data, or a card's nodes) to PIN into the proprietary data source. Pinned nodes get a strong retrieval boost. Max 20. Applies only to the 'data' source.",
      -  "items": {
      -    "type": "string"
      -  },
      -  "maxItems": 20,
      -  "type": "array"
      -}
    • removedInput schema / properties / preview_rows
      Removed value: -{
      -  "default": 20,
      -  "description": "Cap on the rows of each card's data inlined when include_contents is true — always the N MOST-RECENT rows (default 20, the free inline allowance the server ships; values above your account's allowance have no effect). Lower it to trim context on broad fan-outs. For MORE than 20 rows, call tako_contents on the card's url (max_rows up to 2,000 — first 20 free, priced beyond). Ignored when include_contents is false.",
      -  "maximum": 250,
      -  "minimum": 1,
      -  "type": "integer"
      -}
    • changedInput schema / properties / query / description
      Previous value: -"Natural-language search query (e.g. \"US GDP growth\", \"Intel vs Nvidia revenue\"). Website-traffic data is keyed by domain — query \"openai.com monthly visits\", not \"OpenAI website visits\"."New value: +"Natural-language search query (e.g. \"US GDP growth\", \"Intel vs Nvidia revenue\"). Double-quote a multi-word name to keep it one entity (\"tesla motors\" club revenue); an unpaired quote disables quoting. Website-traffic data is keyed by domain — query \"openai.com monthly visits\", not \"OpenAI website visits\"."
    • changedInput schema / properties / sources / description
      Previous value: -"Source(s) to search. Default [\"data\",\"web\"] (both) — keep BOTH enabled unless you have a confirmed reason to narrow. Narrow to [\"data\"] only once `tako_available_data` has confirmed the proprietary data exists (web is the fallback when it does not). Narrow to [\"web\"] only for content a data graph cannot hold (news articles, page text, qualitative claims) — never because a metric merely feels web-native: website traffic, app usage, and similar digital metrics ARE in the proprietary data graph. (\"tako\" is a legacy synonym for \"data\".)"New value: +"Which corpora to search; default is both. Narrow to [\"data\"] once `tako_available_data` confirms coverage; narrow to [\"web\"] only for news or page text — website traffic is in the data graph."
    • changedInput schema / properties / sources / items / enum
      Previous value: -[
      -  "data",
      -  "web",
      -  "tako"
      -]New value: +[
      +  "data",
      +  "web"
      +]
    • removedInput schema / properties / strict
      Removed value: -{
      -  "default": false,
      -  "description": "Hard filter. When true, return ONLY cards matching at least one node in node_ids (which must then be non-empty — empty node_ids + strict is a 400). When false (default), pinned nodes are preferred/boosted but organic results still return.",
      -  "type": "boolean"
      -}
    • changedOutput schema / properties / cards / description
      Previous value: -"The data cards — the payload. Each carries its title, description (headline value), facts, and inline rows under `content`."New value: +"The data cards. Fetch an exportable card's rows with tako_contents on its url."
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / coverage_end
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Where the DATA ends — use this, not `last_updated`, to judge whether a figure is current. Reduced ISO precision at the series' own granularity (\"2026\", \"2026-06\", \"2026-06-30\"), and it can be in the future on a card with projections.",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / description
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Headline value and range — often the answer itself.",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / exportable
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "true → tako_contents on `url` returns the rows; false → rows are locked, read the headline from `description`.",
      +  "type": "boolean"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / last_updated
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Date Tako last refreshed this card — NOT where its data ends.",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / nodes
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Graph handles — pass ids to tako_graph_related.",
      +  "items": {
      +    "additionalProperties": {},
      +    "properties": {
      +      "id": {
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "name": {
      +        "type": "string"
      +      },
      +      "type": {
      +        "type": "string"
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "required": [
      +      "id",
      +      "name",
      +      "type"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / relevance
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Either a 1.0-5.0 score as a string (\"4.5\", 5.0 = exact match) on entitled accounts, or a coarse word (\"High\"). Higher is more relevant in both forms.",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / source
      Added value: +{
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / title
      Added value: +{
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / total_rows
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Rows behind `url` (exportable cards only).",
      +  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      +  "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      +  "type": "integer"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / properties / url
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "The card page — the tako_contents handle.",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards / items / required
      Added value: +[
      +  "exportable"
      +]
    • removedOutput schema / properties / dark_mode
      Removed value: -{
      -  "type": "boolean"
      -}
    • removedOutput schema / properties / embed_url
      Removed value: -{
      -  "pattern": "^https?:\\/\\/",
      -  "type": "string"
      -}
    • changedOutput schema / properties / guidance / description
      Previous value: -"Present only on a zero-card response: the recovery protocol."New value: +"Zero-card responses only: what this response is evidence about, and the one next action."
    • removedOutput schema / properties / height
      Removed value: -{
      -  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
      -  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      -  "type": "integer"
      -}
    • removedOutput schema / properties / image_url
      Removed value: -{
      -  "pattern": "^https?:\\/\\/",
      -  "type": "string"
      -}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / metric_definitions
      Added value: +{
      +  "additionalProperties": {
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "description": "What each metric means (unit, basis, caveats), keyed by metric name, deduped across cards.",
      +  "propertyNames": {
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "type": "object"
      +}
    • removedOutput schema / properties / pub_id
      Removed value: -{
      -  "type": "string"
      -}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / source_notes
      Added value: +{
      +  "additionalProperties": {
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "description": "What each source is and how it builds its data, keyed by source name.",
      +  "propertyNames": {
      +    "type": "string"
      +  },
      +  "type": "object"
      +}
    • changedOutput schema / properties / web_results / description
      Previous value: -"Web results, each with a `snippet`. A snippet is the passages selected against your query, not the page's opening text, so it usually carries the answer-bearing sentence. A ' … ' inside one marks a discontinuity — either passages joined from different parts of the page, or the page's own ellipsis — so read it as a whole and never quote across it as one continuous sentence. `null` means that page had no relevant passage — its url is still fetchable via tako_contents."New value: +"Web results."
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / properties / content
      Added value: +{
      +  "additionalProperties": {},
      +  "description": "Page text — only when the request asked for it.",
      +  "properties": {},
      +  "type": "object"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / properties / published
      Added value: +{
      +  "anyOf": [
      +    {
      +      "type": "string"
      +    },
      +    {
      +      "type": "null"
      +    }
      +  ]
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / properties / snippet
      Added value: +{
      +  "anyOf": [
      +    {
      +      "type": "string"
      +    },
      +    {
      +      "type": "null"
      +    }
      +  ],
      +  "description": "Passages selected against the query. A ' … ' marks a discontinuity — joined passages or the page's own ellipsis — so never quote across it as one sentence. null → no relevant passage, url still fetchable."
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / properties / source
      Added value: +{
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / properties / title
      Added value: +{
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / properties / url
      Added value: +{
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results / items / required
      Added value: +[
      +  "url"
      +]
    • removedOutput schema / properties / width
      Removed value: -{
      -  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
      -  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      -  "type": "integer"
      -}
    • changedOutput schema / required
      Previous value: -[
      -  "usage"
      -]New value: +[
      +  "cards",
      +  "web_results",
      +  "usage"
      +]
  4. Changed2 schema fields changed
    • removedOutput schema / properties / request_id
      Removed value: -{
      -  "type": "string"
      -}
    • changedOutput schema / required
      Previous value: -[
      -  "request_id",
      -  "usage"
      -]New value: +[
      +  "usage"
      +]
  5. Changed1 schema field changed
    • changedOutput schema / properties / web_results / description
      Previous value: -"Web results with their snippets."New value: +"Web results, each with a `snippet`. A snippet is the passages selected against your query, not the page's opening text, so it usually carries the answer-bearing sentence. A ' … ' inside one marks a discontinuity — either passages joined from different parts of the page, or the page's own ellipsis — so read it as a whole and never quote across it as one continuous sentence. `null` means that page had no relevant passage — its url is still fetchable via tako_contents."
  6. Changed1 schema field changed
    • changedOutput schema / properties / usage / anyOf
      Previous value: -[
      -  {
      -    "additionalProperties": {},
      -    "properties": {
      -      "compute": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "additionalProperties": {},
      -            "properties": {
      -              "cost_usd": {
      -                "type": "number"
      -              }
      -            },
      -            "required": [
      -              "cost_usd"
      -            ],
      -            "type": "object"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "data": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "additionalProperties": {},
      -            "properties": {
      -              "cost_usd": {
      -                "type": "number"
      -              },
      -              "datasets": {
      -                "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      -                "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      -                "type": "integer"
      -              }
      -            },
      -            "required": [
      -              "cost_usd",
      -              "datasets"
      -            ],
      -            "type": "object"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "total_cost_usd": {
      -        "type": "number"
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "required": [
      -      "total_cost_usd"
      -    ],
      -    "type": "object"
      -  },
      -  {
      -    "type": "null"
      -  }
      -]New value: +[
      +  {
      +    "additionalProperties": {},
      +    "properties": {
      +      "total_cost_usd": {
      +        "type": "number"
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "required": [
      +      "total_cost_usd"
      +    ],
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  {
      +    "type": "null"
      +  }
      +]
  7. Changed2 schema fields changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / cards
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "The data cards — the payload. Each carries its title, description (headline value), facts, and inline rows under `content`.",
      +  "items": {
      +    "additionalProperties": {},
      +    "properties": {},
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / web_results
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Web results with their snippets.",
      +  "items": {
      +    "additionalProperties": {},
      +    "properties": {},
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  "type": "array"
      +}
  8. Changed7 schema fields changed
    • changedInput schema / properties / include_contents / description
      Previous value: -"Inline each Tako card's free 5-row data preview (default true). Set false for pointers-only (title/chart/nodes, no rows) — cheaper for large parallel fan-outs. Controls the DATA source only; web page text is never auto-inlined (billed per page — use tako_contents). Full export is a separate tako_contents call — possible only for cards marked `exportable: true`."New value: +"Inline each Tako card's data preview (default true; preview_rows sets how many rows). Set false — pointers-only, no rows — for large parallel fan-outs or when coverage is unconfirmed (no prior tako_available_data check). DATA source only; web page text is never auto-inlined (billed per page — use tako_contents). Full export is a separate tako_contents call, only for cards marked `exportable: true`."
    • addedInput schema / properties / preview_rows
      Added value: +{
      +  "default": 20,
      +  "description": "Cap on the rows of each card's data inlined when include_contents is true — always the N MOST-RECENT rows (default 20, the free inline allowance the server ships; values above your account's allowance have no effect). Lower it to trim context on broad fan-outs. For MORE than 20 rows, call tako_contents on the card's url (max_rows up to 2,000 — first 20 free, priced beyond). Ignored when include_contents is false.",
      +  "maximum": 250,
      +  "minimum": 1,
      +  "type": "integer"
      +}
    • removedOutput schema / properties / cards
      Removed value: -{
      -  "items": {
      -    "additionalProperties": {},
      -    "properties": {
      -      "card_id": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "content": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "additionalProperties": {},
      -            "properties": {
      -              "content_format": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "string"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "cost": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "number"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "data": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "string"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "total_rows": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "number"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "truncated": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "boolean"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              }
      -            },
      -            "type": "object"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ],
      -        "description": "Raw export descriptor + inline data preview. Read the sibling `exportable` boolean as the call/skip signal instead of inferring from this field's presence. Missing or null here is equivalent to exportable:false. Present is necessary for a tako_contents export but not a guarantee (a rare card still 403s — fall back to the preview/chart)."
      -      },
      -      "description": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "embed_url": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "exportable": {
      -        "description": "Whether this card's underlying data can be fetched with tako_contents. false → NOT exportable: do NOT call tako_contents on this card, use its inline preview/chart. true → eligible, but not a guarantee — a rare card still 403s, so on error fall back rather than retry.",
      -        "type": "boolean"
      -      },
      -      "image_url": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "nodes": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "items": {
      -              "additionalProperties": false,
      -              "properties": {
      -                "id": {
      -                  "type": "string"
      -                },
      -                "name": {
      -                  "type": "string"
      -                },
      -                "type": {
      -                  "type": "string"
      -                }
      -              },
      -              "required": [
      -                "id",
      -                "name",
      -                "type"
      -              ],
      -              "type": "object"
      -            },
      -            "type": "array"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "title": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "webpage_url": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "type": "object"
      -  },
      -  "type": "array"
      -}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / guidance / description
      Added value: +"Present only on a zero-card response: the recovery protocol."
    • addedOutput schema / properties / usage / description
      Added value: +"Cost-plus usage for this request (null when not metered)."
    • removedOutput schema / properties / web_results
      Removed value: -{
      -  "items": {
      -    "additionalProperties": {},
      -    "properties": {
      -      "citation_number": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "number"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "content": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "additionalProperties": {},
      -            "properties": {
      -              "content_format": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "string"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "cost": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "number"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "data": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "string"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "total_rows": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "number"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "truncated": {
      -                "anyOf": [
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "boolean"
      -                  },
      -                  {
      -                    "type": "null"
      -                  }
      -                ]
      -              }
      -            },
      -            "type": "object"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "publish_date": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "snippet": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "source_name": {
      -        "anyOf": [
      -          {
      -            "type": "string"
      -          },
      -          {
      -            "type": "null"
      -          }
      -        ]
      -      },
      -      "title": {
      -        "type": "string"
      -      },
      -      "url": {
      -        "description": "The web page URL. Always fetchable via tako_contents for the page's full text (web urls need no `exportable` flag, unlike cards) — a fallback you can read when no Tako data card fits the query.",
      -        "type": "string"
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "required": [
      -      "title",
      -      "url"
      -    ],
      -    "type": "object"
      -  },
      -  "type": "array"
      -}
    • changedOutput schema / required
      Previous value: -[
      -  "cards",
      -  "web_results",
      -  "usage",
      -  "request_id"
      -]New value: +[
      +  "request_id",
      +  "usage"
      +]
  9. First observed

TDQS

A4.8/5.0
Behavior5/5

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

Annotations already cover read-only, open-world and idempotency, yet the description adds real behavioral facts: only the first card's chart renders inline (host-dependent), `exportable: false` cards have locked rows whose value must be read from `description`, and card urls feed tako_contents for rows or full page text. These are non-obvious runtime behaviors an agent could not infer from the annotations.

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?

Front-loaded with what the tool does, then the card/contents relationship, then the breadth guidance — a sensible reading order. There is minor redundancy between the sentence introducing tako_contents and the later 'pass the url to tako_contents' instruction, but overall it is dense with useful content rather than padded.

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?

Given an existing output schema and full annotation coverage, the description fills the remaining gaps: result interpretation (locked vs exportable cards), chart rendering limits, and the handoff path to tako_contents. Nothing an agent needs in order to call this correctly and interpret results is missing.

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

Parameters4/5

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

Schema coverage is 100%, so the baseline is 3; the description goes further by specifying query composition semantics — one question per query, one metric per entity, comparison sets, or a single news/web lookup — which the schema does not state. It doesn't restate locale/country_code, but those are fully documented in the schema.

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 resource ('Search Tako's data graph and the live web in one call') and immediately distinguishes the output shape (structured cards plus web results) from the sibling that fetches details. An agent can distinguish it from tako_contents without opening either 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 between this tool and tako_contents ('It finds results; tako_contents fetches what's behind them'), and names the use case it is best for ('breadth — fan out several narrow queries in parallel'). It also gives the counter-pattern ('several metrics or topics in one query retrieve poorly'), which is the rare when-not-to guidance.

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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