x402-duplicate-lines
Duplicate Lines: Duplicate Lines
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | No | Text to process | |
| input | No | Input to process |
Duplicate Lines: Duplicate Lines
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | No | Text to process | |
| input | No | Input to process |
Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.
Input schema / properties / inputAdded value: +{
+ "description": "Input to process",
+ "type": "string"
+}Input schema / properties / textAdded value: +{
+ "description": "Text to process",
+ "type": "string"
+}Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
No annotations are provided, so the description carries the full burden, and it discloses nothing: not whether duplication is in-place, line-wise vs whole-text, case-sensitive, or what the output looks like. A single tautological phrase gives the agent no behavioral contract for a mutating text operation.
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 short but that brevity is under-specification rather than conciseness — it restates the name and adds nothing. There is no front-loaded explanation of purpose or constraints because there is no content at all.
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?
With no annotations, no output schema, and a tool description that is a pure tautology, an agent has essentially no basis for correct invocation. For a text-transformation tool sitting among dozens of near-identical siblings, this is completely inadequate.
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?
Schema description coverage is 100%, so the baseline is 3. However the two parameters ("text" and "input") appear redundant and their schema descriptions are themselves tautological ("Text to process" / "Input to process"), and the tool description adds no clarification about which to use.
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?
"Duplicate Lines: Duplicate Lines" merely repeats the tool name with no elaboration; the title is null, so nothing disambiguates it beyond the name itself. An agent can guess it duplicates text lines, but the definition adds zero information and does not distinguish it from siblings like x402-remove-duplicates or x402-unique-lines.
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?
No indication of when to use this tool, what input it expects, or how it differs from the many adjacent text tools (x402-remove-duplicates, x402-unique-lines, x402-dedupe, x402-remove-duplicates-words). The agent must infer everything from the name.
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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