Valuein — SEC EDGAR Fundamentals & Smart-Money Data

Capital Allocation Profile

get_capital_allocation_profile

Read-onlyIdempotent

Get a multi-year capital allocation breakdown for a US public company. Shows how management deploys cash across all six categories — capex, R&D, M&A, dividends, buybacks, and debt — plus pre-computed deployment ratios (% of operating cash flow) and over-distribution flags. Use this tool when the user asks: how does a company allocate capital, what's the buyback-vs-dividend mix, is the company over-distributing, is growth funded by R&D or M&A, what's the cash-return-ratio trend, or any 'where does the money go' question — including owner-earnings (Buffett-style) and reinvestment-rate (Damodaran-style) analysis. Data sourced from annual 10-K filings; PIT-safe via as_of_date. R&D is included as a deployment category (the primary growth-reinvestment vehicle for knowledge-economy firms), but since it's already deducted before operating cash flow, rd_pct_ocf is INFORMATIONAL and total_deployment_pct_ocf EXCLUDES R&D to preserve the cash-flow identity (OCF = capex + M&A + dividends + buybacks + debt repayment + Δcash). The flags object carries pre-computed booleans: buybacks_exceed_fcf, total_returns_exceed_fcf (buybacks + dividends > FCF), and debt_funded_distribution (over-distribution funded by leverage vs cash). Available on all plans.

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description
`ticker`	Yes	Stock ticker symbol, e.g. AAPL, MSFT — or a CIK (SEC identifier), e.g. '0000320193'.
`as_of_date`	No	Point-in-time date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only returns facts with accepted_at on or before this date — eliminates look-ahead bias.
`lookback_years`	No	Number of fiscal years to look back from the most recent filing (1–20). Defaults to 5 years for a full capital allocation cycle.

Output Schema

Name	Required	Description
`data`	Yes	Per-period capital-allocation rows: capex, R&D, M&A, dividends, buybacks, debt, and deployment-mix flags
`note`	No
`_meta`	Yes	Provenance envelope — data lineage for every MCP response
`ticker`	Yes
`as_of_date`	No
`lookback_years`	Yes	Number of fiscal years summarized
`periods_returned`	Yes

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed1 schema field changedOct 29, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / cost_usd / properties / basis / description

Previous value: -"payg_charge = real charge (agent-pay or your balance). payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed."New value: +"payg_charge = real pay-per-call charge (a card or MPP payment through agent-pay). payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed."

Changed2 schema fields changedOct 29, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / cost_usd / properties / basis / description

Previous value: -"payg_charge = real agent-pay charge. payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed."New value: +"payg_charge = real charge (agent-pay or your balance). payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed."

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / cost_usd / properties / billed / description

Previous value: -"true = this amount was actually charged via PAYG for this call. false = indicative PAYG-equivalent value; your plan already covers this call for free."New value: +"true = this amount was actually charged via PAYG for this call. false = indicative PAYG-equivalent value only: no charge was made for this call (it was within your plan)."

Changed18 schema fields changedOct 16, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / as_of_date / description

Previous value: -"Point-in-time cutoff, YYYY-MM-DD: only figures filed with the SEC on or before this date, e.g. 2024-06-30."New value: +"Point-in-time date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only returns facts with accepted_at on or before this date — eliminates look-ahead bias."

changedInput schema / properties / lookback_years / description

Previous value: -"Fiscal years to cover, counting back from the latest filing, 1 to 20; defaults to 5, e.g. 3."New value: +"Number of fiscal years to look back from the most recent filing (1–20). Defaults to 5 years for a full capital allocation cycle."

changedInput schema / properties / ticker / description

Previous value: -"Ticker symbol or SEC CIK of the company, e.g. AAPL."New value: +"Stock ticker symbol, e.g. AAPL, MSFT — or a CIK (SEC identifier), e.g. '0000320193'."

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / cost_usd

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "description": "Per-call cost transparency. Omitted for subscription-only tools that have no PAYG-equivalent price.",
+  "properties": {
+    "amount_usd": {
+      "minimum": 0,
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "basis": {
+      "description": "payg_charge = real agent-pay charge. payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed.",
+      "enum": [
+        "payg_charge",
+        "payg_rate_card"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "billed": {
+      "description": "true = this amount was actually charged via PAYG for this call. false = indicative PAYG-equivalent value; your plan already covers this call for free.",
+      "type": "boolean"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "amount_usd",
+    "billed",
+    "basis"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / data_plan

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Access plan: sample | sp500 | pro | full",
+  "type": "string"
+}

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / fundamentals_as_of / description

Previous value: -"Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the cross-sectional fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to. It is a floor for a single filer, not a ceiling: a filer with a live partition receives its filing, facts and ratios intraday (minutes after EDGAR dissemination), so an entity-scoped read may carry a filing newer than this; cross-sectional ranks (factor scores, earnings signals) refresh with the weekly bulk export."New value: +"ISO timestamp when the FINANCIAL STATEMENTS were last rebuilt in bulk. Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the cross-sectional fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to. It is a floor for a single filer, not a ceiling: a filer with a live partition receives its filing, facts and ratios intraday (minutes after EDGAR dissemination), so an entity-scoped read may carry a filing newer than this; cross-sectional ranks (factor scores, earnings signals) refresh with the weekly bulk export."

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / last_updated

Added value: +{
+  "description": "ISO timestamp when the snapshot was exported",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / latency_ms

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Wall-clock milliseconds this tool call took, measured server-side around the handler.",
+  "minimum": 0,
+  "type": "integer"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / limit_warnings

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Soft-warning array for partial fulfillment. Each entry carries a stable subcode + remediation.options[]. AI agents pattern-match on subcode.",
+  "items": {
+    "additionalProperties": true,
+    "properties": {
+      "code": {
+        "const": "LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "current_plan": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "extensions": {
+        "additionalProperties": {},
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "limit_type": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "limit_value": {},
+      "remediation": {
+        "additionalProperties": true,
+        "properties": {
+          "contact_sales": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "default_action": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "options": {
+            "items": {
+              "additionalProperties": {},
+              "type": "object"
+            },
+            "type": "array"
+          },
+          "pricing_page": {
+            "type": "string"
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "options",
+          "default_action",
+          "pricing_page",
+          "contact_sales"
+        ],
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "requested_value": {},
+      "returned_value": {},
+      "subcode": {
+        "type": "string"
+      }
+    },
+    "required": [
+      "code",
+      "subcode",
+      "limit_type",
+      "current_plan",
+      "remediation"
+    ],
+    "type": "object"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / payg_override

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "description": "Set when this single response was paid for via the agent-pay PAYG flow — the rate-limit / depth-limit checks were bypassed for this call only.",
+  "properties": {
+    "amount_cents": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "entity_scope_hash": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "meter": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "quote_id": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "retry_token_hash": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "ticker_count": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "tool": {
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "quote_id",
+    "tool",
+    "meter",
+    "amount_cents",
+    "ticker_count",
+    "entity_scope_hash",
+    "retry_token_hash"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / rate_limit

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "description": "Caller's remaining budget",
+  "properties": {
+    "limit": {
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "remaining": {
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "reset_at": {
+      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp when the window resets",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "window": {
+      "enum": [
+        "minute",
+        "hour"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "limit",
+    "remaining",
+    "reset_at",
+    "window"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / request_id

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Per-request correlation id (8-char)",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / schema_version

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Parquet schema version from manifest.json",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / snapshot

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Snapshot directory name (e.g. snapshot_20260420)",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / truncation / properties / current_plan
```
Added value: +{
+  "type": "string"
+}
```
addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / truncation / properties / upgrade_required_for
```
Added value: +{
+  "type": "string"
+}
```
addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / truncation / properties / upgrade_url
```
Added value: +{
+  "type": "string"
+}
```

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / required

Previous value: -[
-  "source",
-  "pit_safe"
-]New value: +[
+  "data_plan",
+  "schema_version",
+  "snapshot",
+  "last_updated",
+  "source",
+  "pit_safe"
+]

Changed18 schema fields changedSep 29, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / as_of_date / description

Previous value: -"Point-in-time date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only returns facts with accepted_at on or before this date — eliminates look-ahead bias."New value: +"Point-in-time cutoff, YYYY-MM-DD: only figures filed with the SEC on or before this date, e.g. 2024-06-30."

changedInput schema / properties / lookback_years / description

Previous value: -"Number of fiscal years to look back from the most recent filing (1–20). Defaults to 5 years for a full capital allocation cycle."New value: +"Fiscal years to cover, counting back from the latest filing, 1 to 20; defaults to 5, e.g. 3."

changedInput schema / properties / ticker / description

Previous value: -"Stock ticker symbol, e.g. AAPL, MSFT — or a CIK (SEC identifier), e.g. '0000320193'."New value: +"Ticker symbol or SEC CIK of the company, e.g. AAPL."

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / cost_usd

Removed value: -{
-  "additionalProperties": false,
-  "description": "Per-call cost transparency. Omitted for subscription-only tools that have no PAYG-equivalent price.",
-  "properties": {
-    "amount_usd": {
-      "minimum": 0,
-      "type": "number"
-    },
-    "basis": {
-      "description": "payg_charge = real agent-pay charge. payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed.",
-      "enum": [
-        "payg_charge",
-        "payg_rate_card"
-      ],
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "billed": {
-      "description": "true = this amount was actually charged via PAYG for this call. false = indicative PAYG-equivalent value; your plan already covers this call for free.",
-      "type": "boolean"
-    }
-  },
-  "required": [
-    "amount_usd",
-    "billed",
-    "basis"
-  ],
-  "type": "object"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / data_plan

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Access plan: sample | sp500 | pro | full",
-  "type": "string"
-}

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / fundamentals_as_of / description

Previous value: -"ISO timestamp when the FINANCIAL STATEMENTS were last rebuilt in bulk. Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the cross-sectional fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to. It is a floor for a single filer, not a ceiling: a filer with a live partition receives its filing, facts and ratios intraday (minutes after EDGAR dissemination), so an entity-scoped read may carry a filing newer than this; cross-sectional ranks (factor scores, earnings signals) refresh with the weekly bulk export."New value: +"Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the cross-sectional fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to. It is a floor for a single filer, not a ceiling: a filer with a live partition receives its filing, facts and ratios intraday (minutes after EDGAR dissemination), so an entity-scoped read may carry a filing newer than this; cross-sectional ranks (factor scores, earnings signals) refresh with the weekly bulk export."

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / last_updated

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "ISO timestamp when the snapshot was exported",
-  "type": "string"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / latency_ms

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Wall-clock milliseconds this tool call took, measured server-side around the handler.",
-  "minimum": 0,
-  "type": "integer"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / limit_warnings

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Soft-warning array for partial fulfillment. Each entry carries a stable subcode + remediation.options[]. AI agents pattern-match on subcode.",
-  "items": {
-    "additionalProperties": true,
-    "properties": {
-      "code": {
-        "const": "LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
-        "type": "string"
-      },
-      "current_plan": {
-        "type": "string"
-      },
-      "extensions": {
-        "additionalProperties": {},
-        "type": "object"
-      },
-      "limit_type": {
-        "type": "string"
-      },
-      "limit_value": {},
-      "remediation": {
-        "additionalProperties": true,
-        "properties": {
-          "contact_sales": {
-            "type": "string"
-          },
-          "default_action": {
-            "type": "string"
-          },
-          "options": {
-            "items": {
-              "additionalProperties": {},
-              "type": "object"
-            },
-            "type": "array"
-          },
-          "pricing_page": {
-            "type": "string"
-          }
-        },
-        "required": [
-          "options",
-          "default_action",
-          "pricing_page",
-          "contact_sales"
-        ],
-        "type": "object"
-      },
-      "requested_value": {},
-      "returned_value": {},
-      "subcode": {
-        "type": "string"
-      }
-    },
-    "required": [
-      "code",
-      "subcode",
-      "limit_type",
-      "current_plan",
-      "remediation"
-    ],
-    "type": "object"
-  },
-  "type": "array"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / payg_override

Removed value: -{
-  "additionalProperties": false,
-  "description": "Set when this single response was paid for via the agent-pay PAYG flow — the rate-limit / depth-limit checks were bypassed for this call only.",
-  "properties": {
-    "amount_cents": {
-      "type": "number"
-    },
-    "entity_scope_hash": {
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "meter": {
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "quote_id": {
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "retry_token_hash": {
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "ticker_count": {
-      "type": "number"
-    },
-    "tool": {
-      "type": "string"
-    }
-  },
-  "required": [
-    "quote_id",
-    "tool",
-    "meter",
-    "amount_cents",
-    "ticker_count",
-    "entity_scope_hash",
-    "retry_token_hash"
-  ],
-  "type": "object"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / rate_limit

Removed value: -{
-  "additionalProperties": false,
-  "description": "Caller's remaining budget",
-  "properties": {
-    "limit": {
-      "type": "integer"
-    },
-    "remaining": {
-      "type": "integer"
-    },
-    "reset_at": {
-      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp when the window resets",
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "window": {
-      "enum": [
-        "minute",
-        "hour"
-      ],
-      "type": "string"
-    }
-  },
-  "required": [
-    "limit",
-    "remaining",
-    "reset_at",
-    "window"
-  ],
-  "type": "object"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / request_id

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Per-request correlation id (8-char)",
-  "type": "string"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / schema_version

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Parquet schema version from manifest.json",
-  "type": "string"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / snapshot

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Snapshot directory name (e.g. snapshot_20260420)",
-  "type": "string"
-}

removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / truncation / properties / current_plan
```
Removed value: -{
-  "type": "string"
-}
```
removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / truncation / properties / upgrade_required_for
```
Removed value: -{
-  "type": "string"
-}
```
removedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / truncation / properties / upgrade_url
```
Removed value: -{
-  "type": "string"
-}
```

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / required

Previous value: -[
-  "data_plan",
-  "schema_version",
-  "snapshot",
-  "last_updated",
-  "source",
-  "pit_safe"
-]New value: +[
+  "source",
+  "pit_safe"
+]

Changed1 schema field changedSep 18, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / fundamentals_as_of / description

Previous value: -"ISO timestamp when the FINANCIAL STATEMENTS were last rebuilt. Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to."New value: +"ISO timestamp when the FINANCIAL STATEMENTS were last rebuilt in bulk. Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the cross-sectional fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to. It is a floor for a single filer, not a ceiling: a filer with a live partition receives its filing, facts and ratios intraday (minutes after EDGAR dissemination), so an entity-scoped read may carry a filing newer than this; cross-sectional ranks (factor scores, earnings signals) refresh with the weekly bulk export."

Changed2 schema fields changedSep 11, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / ticker / description

Previous value: -"Stock ticker symbol, e.g. AAPL, MSFT"New value: +"Stock ticker symbol, e.g. AAPL, MSFT — or a CIK (SEC identifier), e.g. '0000320193'."

changedInput schema / properties / ticker / pattern

Previous value: -"^[A-Za-z.\\-]+$"New value: +"^[A-Za-z0-9.\\-]+$"

Changed2 schema fields changedJul 25, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / fundamentals_as_of

Added value: +{
+  "description": "ISO timestamp when the FINANCIAL STATEMENTS were last rebuilt. Use THIS — not `last_updated` — when telling a user how current the fundamentals are. The snapshot is republished on every weekday price refresh while the statements are carried forward unchanged, so `last_updated` can be far more recent than the numbers it sits next to.",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / price_as_of

Added value: +{
+  "description": "ISO timestamp when the price surfaces were last refreshed.",
+  "type": "string"
+}

Changed2 schema fields changedJul 7, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / cost_usd

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "description": "Per-call cost transparency. Omitted for subscription-only tools that have no PAYG-equivalent price.",
+  "properties": {
+    "amount_usd": {
+      "minimum": 0,
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "basis": {
+      "description": "payg_charge = real agent-pay charge. payg_rate_card = indicative price, not billed.",
+      "enum": [
+        "payg_charge",
+        "payg_rate_card"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "billed": {
+      "description": "true = this amount was actually charged via PAYG for this call. false = indicative PAYG-equivalent value; your plan already covers this call for free.",
+      "type": "boolean"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "amount_usd",
+    "billed",
+    "basis"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / latency_ms

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Wall-clock milliseconds this tool call took, measured server-side around the handler.",
+  "minimum": 0,
+  "type": "integer"
+}

Changed1 schema field changedJun 18, 2026
- addedOutput schema / properties / _meta / properties / pit_safe / description
```
Added value: +"true iff a zero-look-ahead point-in-time cut was applied to every returned figure"
```

Changed1 schema field changedJun 3, 2026

changedOutput schema / (root)

Previous value: -nullNew value: +{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "properties": {
+    "_meta": {
+      "additionalProperties": false,
+      "description": "Provenance envelope — data lineage for every MCP response",
+      "properties": {
+        "as_of_date": {
+          "type": [
+            "string",
+            "null"
+          ]
+        },
+        "data_plan": {
+          "description": "Access plan: sample | sp500 | pro | full",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "data_quality": {
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "description": "Server-side invariants run on this response",
+          "properties": {
+            "notes": {
+              "items": {
+                "type": "string"
+              },
+              "type": "array"
+            },
+            "validation_failed": {
+              "items": {
+                "additionalProperties": false,
+                "properties": {
+                  "detail": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  },
+                  "rule": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  }
+                },
+                "required": [
+                  "rule",
+                  "detail"
+                ],
+                "type": "object"
+              },
+              "type": "array"
+            },
+            "validation_passed": {
+              "items": {
+                "type": "string"
+              },
+              "type": "array"
+            }
+          },
+          "required": [
+            "validation_passed",
+            "validation_failed",
+            "notes"
+          ],
+          "type": "object"
+        },
+        "last_updated": {
+          "description": "ISO timestamp when the snapshot was exported",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "limit_warnings": {
+          "description": "Soft-warning array for partial fulfillment. Each entry carries a stable subcode + remediation.options[]. AI agents pattern-match on subcode.",
+          "items": {
+            "additionalProperties": true,
+            "properties": {
+              "code": {
+                "const": "LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
+                "type": "string"
+              },
+              "current_plan": {
+                "type": "string"
+              },
+              "extensions": {
+                "additionalProperties": {},
+                "type": "object"
+              },
+              "limit_type": {
+                "type": "string"
+              },
+              "limit_value": {},
+              "remediation": {
+                "additionalProperties": true,
+                "properties": {
+                  "contact_sales": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  },
+                  "default_action": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  },
+                  "options": {
+                    "items": {
+                      "additionalProperties": {},
+                      "type": "object"
+                    },
+                    "type": "array"
+                  },
+                  "pricing_page": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  }
+                },
+                "required": [
+                  "options",
+                  "default_action",
+                  "pricing_page",
+                  "contact_sales"
+                ],
+                "type": "object"
+              },
+              "requested_value": {},
+              "returned_value": {},
+              "subcode": {
+                "type": "string"
+              }
+            },
+            "required": [
+              "code",
+              "subcode",
+              "limit_type",
+              "current_plan",
+              "remediation"
+            ],
+            "type": "object"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        "payg_override": {
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "description": "Set when this single response was paid for via the agent-pay PAYG flow — the rate-limit / depth-limit checks were bypassed for this call only.",
+          "properties": {
+            "amount_cents": {
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            "entity_scope_hash": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "meter": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "quote_id": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "retry_token_hash": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "ticker_count": {
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            "tool": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "required": [
+            "quote_id",
+            "tool",
+            "meter",
+            "amount_cents",
+            "ticker_count",
+            "entity_scope_hash",
+            "retry_token_hash"
+          ],
+          "type": "object"
+        },
+        "pit_safe": {
+          "type": "boolean"
+        },
+        "rate_limit": {
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "description": "Caller's remaining budget",
+          "properties": {
+            "limit": {
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "remaining": {
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "reset_at": {
+              "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp when the window resets",
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "window": {
+              "enum": [
+                "minute",
+                "hour"
+              ],
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "required": [
+            "limit",
+            "remaining",
+            "reset_at",
+            "window"
+          ],
+          "type": "object"
+        },
+        "request_id": {
+          "description": "Per-request correlation id (8-char)",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "result_count": {
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "schema_version": {
+          "description": "Parquet schema version from manifest.json",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "snapshot": {
+          "description": "Snapshot directory name (e.g. snapshot_20260420)",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "source": {
+          "const": "SEC EDGAR",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "ticker": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "truncation": {
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "description": "Set when fewer rows were returned than requested — explains why and points to a remedy",
+          "properties": {
+            "current_plan": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "plan_limit": {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "reason": {
+              "enum": [
+                "PLAN_LIMIT",
+                "DATA_NOT_AVAILABLE",
+                "FISCAL_YEAR_BOUNDARY_FILTER",
+                "OTHER"
+              ],
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "requested": {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "returned": {
+              "minimum": 0,
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "upgrade_required_for": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "upgrade_url": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "required": [
+            "requested",
+            "returned",
+            "reason"
+          ],
+          "type": "object"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "data_plan",
+        "schema_version",
+        "snapshot",
+        "last_updated",
+        "source",
+        "pit_safe"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "as_of_date": {
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "data": {
+      "description": "Per-period capital-allocation rows: capex, R&D, M&A, dividends, buybacks, debt, and deployment-mix flags",
+      "items": {
+        "additionalProperties": true,
+        "properties": {},
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "lookback_years": {
+      "description": "Number of fiscal years summarized",
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "note": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "periods_returned": {
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "ticker": {
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "_meta",
+    "ticker",
+    "lookback_years",
+    "periods_returned",
+    "data"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

Changed1 schema field changedApr 25, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / as_of_date / description

Previous value: -"Point-in-time date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only returns facts with knowledge_at on or before this date — eliminates look-ahead bias."New value: +"Point-in-time date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only returns facts with accepted_at on or before this date — eliminates look-ahead bias."

First observedApr 22, 2026

TDQS

A4.1/5.0

Behavior5/5

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

Annotations already cover the safety profile (readOnly, idempotent, non-destructive), and the description goes well beyond them: it names the data source (annual 10-K filings), discloses PIT semantics via as_of_date, warns about the non-obvious accounting nuance that `total_deployment_pct_ocf` excludes R&D to preserve the cash-flow identity, and enumerates the exact booleans inside `flags`. That is material context an agent cannot get from annotations or schema.

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?

Purpose is front-loaded, followed by usage triggers, then the accounting caveat, flags, and plan availability — a sensible order. It is dense but nearly every sentence carries information; the enumerated question list is slightly long and the backtick field references partially duplicate the output schema.

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?

With annotations, a full output schema, and 100% parameter coverage, the description supplies everything else an agent needs: what data underlies the figures, how to avoid look-ahead bias, how R&D is treated in the ratios, and what the flags mean. Nothing required to invoke or interpret the tool correctly is missing.

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

Parameters3/5

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

Schema coverage is 100%, and the schema already documents ticker (including CIK support), as_of_date PIT behavior, and the 1–20 lookback range with its default. The description adds only a restatement that as_of_date makes the call PIT-safe and no additional semantics for lookback_years, so the schema is doing the heavy lifting.

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

Purpose4/5

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

Opens with a specific verb and resource — 'Get a multi-year capital allocation breakdown for a US public company' — and enumerates the six deployment categories plus derived ratios and flags. The scope is unmistakable, but no sibling tool (e.g., get_financial_ratios, compute_dcf, get_company_fundamentals) is named, so differentiation is inferred rather than stated.

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

Usage Guidelines4/5

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

Provides a rich, explicit list of user questions that should route here — 'how does a company allocate capital', 'buyback-vs-dividend mix', 'is the company over-distributing' — including the owner-earnings and reinvestment-rate framings. Strong positive guidance, but no explicit when-not-to-use or named alternative for overlapping ratio tools.

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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