x402-continued-fraction
Continued Fraction: Continued Fraction
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Continued Fraction: Continued Fraction
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
No annotations are provided, so the description carries the full burden of behavioral disclosure. It reveals nothing about what the tool does, what it returns, whether it requires authentication, or whether it has side effects. An agent invoking this tool has no idea what will happen.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.
Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?
The description is tiny, but this is under-specification rather than conciseness — a single sentence carrying zero semantic content. There is nothing front-loaded because there is nothing to front-load. Even a minimal verb-plus-object phrasing would have been more informative.
Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.
Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?
Even for a 0-param tool, the agent needs to know what the tool computes, what it returns, and when it applies. With no annotations, no output schema, and a tautological description, nothing compensates for the missing information. In a namespace of thousands of siblings, this definition is completely inadequate for correct selection and invocation.
Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.
Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?
The input schema is empty (0 parameters), and the documented baseline for 0-param tools is 4 — there are no parameters for the description to explain. The description does not mislead about inputs, though it does leave unstated how the tool receives its subject (e.g., a number or coefficient list), a minor gap given the empty schema.
Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.
Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?
The description 'Continued Fraction: Continued Fraction' is a pure tautology that merely restates the tool's name/title. It contains no verb, so an agent cannot tell whether this tool expands a fraction into a continued fraction, evaluates one, simplifies it, or converts between representations. It fails to distinguish itself from the many math siblings like x402-egyptian-fraction or x402-decimal-to-fraction.
Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.
Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?
There is zero usage guidance: no when-to-use statement, no alternatives, no exclusions. Among thousands of sibling tools, including several fraction-related ones, an agent has no evidentiary basis to choose this tool over any other. The absence of guidance here is effectively total.
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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The tool set is saturated with near-duplicates and synonyms: character-count vs char-count, clamp vs clamp-value, is-abundant vs is-abundant-num vs is-abundant-number, and fetch vs browser-scrape vs web-scrape vs text-scrape. Generic names like 'difference', 'normalize', 'range', and 'partition' make the boundaries even harder for an agent to determine.
Most tools share a x402- kebab-case prefix, but the set mixes noun-only names (math, hash, prime, time), verb-first names (get_stats, find, validate), auto-generated names (x402-publish-1787853294312-base-account), and inconsistent variants like temp vs temperature vs temperature-convert. This is not a coherent verb_noun convention despite the common prefix.
1677 tools is an extreme count that creates selection paralysis and makes coherent agent use impractical. A utility or marketplace server at this scale needs sub-services or namespacing rather than a flat tool list.
The surface has broad token coverage across many utility categories, but the marketplace aspect is incomplete: service_discovery and get_stats exist, yet there are no generic publish, update, delete, or account-management operations. Utility families also contain redundant variants without clear completion or lifecycle structure.