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The grain of every table and the specific ways to get a confident wrong answer out of this data. Read this before computing anything. It states, among others, that a budget and an actual must never be combined in one calculation; that a budget line is NET of grants and fees and is not what a thing costs; and that no budget line is mapped to a ledger account, so budget-to-actual at line level cannot be answered from this data at all.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema
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Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections. Dates show when Glama detected each change.

  1. First observed

TDQS

A3.9/5.0
Behavior3/5

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

With no annotations, the description carries the burden of explaining behavior. It usefully discloses that the tool contains warnings and data caveats rather than raw query results, and provides concrete examples of what it states. It does not explicitly say whether it is a static read-only document or describe its return format, but 'read_first' and 'read this' make the read-only nature reasonably clear.

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

Conciseness5/5

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

The description is compact and front-loaded with the core purpose: it tells the agent to read before computing, then gives specific, high-value examples of the warnings inside. No sentence is wasted, and the most important directive appears early.

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

Completeness4/5

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

For a no-parameter informational tool, the description provides enough context for an agent to decide to call it first and to understand the kind of content it will receive. It does not specify the output format or size, but the absence of parameters and the explicitly informational nature make that gap minor.

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?

The input schema has zero parameters, so there is nothing for the description to clarify beyond what the schema already shows. The baseline score of 4 applies because no parameter documentation is needed.

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?

The description clearly identifies the tool as a prerequisite reading resource that explains table grain and common analytical traps, and explicitly says to read it before computing anything. It is not a tautology and it is clearly distinct from query tools, though it does not explicitly name or compare against sibling tools like document or worked_examples.

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?

The description gives an explicit usage trigger: 'Read this before computing anything.' This tells the agent when the tool should be called relative to other data operations. However, it does not explain when not to use it or mention alternatives among the sibling 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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TDQS

A4.1/5.0
Disambiguation4/5

Each tool targets a distinct concern: dataset discovery, data-grain warnings, safe budget lookups, staff counts, meeting full-text search, provenance, SQL catch-all, and query templates. The one soft boundary is that `query` could theoretically reproduce `budget_history` and `staff`, but the descriptions aggressively warn against naive SQL for those cases, which makes the specialization meaningful.

Naming Consistency3/5

`list_datasets` and `search_meetings` follow a verb_noun pattern, but the rest mix bare nouns (`document`, `query`, `staff`), compound nouns (`budget_history`), an imperative phrase (`read_first`), and an adjective_noun (`worked_examples`). All names are readable and memorable, but no consistent syntactic convention holds across the set.

Tool Count5/5

Eight tools is well within the ideal 3-15 range for a municipal archive server. Each tool earns its place: discovery, pre-query guidance, arbitrary SQL, two specialized wrappers that exist specifically to prevent costly analytical errors, full-text search over a separate corpus, provenance, and a curated set of executable examples.

Completeness4/5

The domain is well covered: dataset discovery, data pitfalls, arbitrary read-only querying, meeting document search, and citation. The catch-all `query` tool avoids most dead ends. Minor gaps remain — no full-text search over non-meeting documents like town reports and no bulk export/download dataset tool — but the 250k-row guardrail and publisher URLs partially mitigate these.