x402-grep-lines
Grep Lines: Grep Lines
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | No | Text to process | |
| input | No | Input to process | |
| search | No | Search to process | |
| pattern | No | Pattern to process |
Grep Lines: Grep Lines
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | No | Text to process | |
| input | No | Input to process | |
| search | No | Search to process | |
| pattern | No | Pattern to process |
Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.
Input schema / properties / inputAdded value: +{
+ "description": "Input to process",
+ "type": "string"
+}Input schema / properties / patternAdded value: +{
+ "description": "Pattern to process",
+ "type": "string"
+}Input schema / properties / searchAdded value: +{
+ "description": "Search 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 behavioral burden, and it discloses nothing: not whether matching is regex or literal, case-sensitive, whole-line or substring, nor what the response contains. For a 4-parameter tool with zero annotation coverage this is a total failure of disclosure.
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?
It is short, but brevity here is under-specification rather than conciseness: the single fragment is a pure restatement of the name, so no part of it earns its place.
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?
A four-parameter text-processing tool with no annotations, no output schema, and vacuous parameter docs needs the description to explain behavior and semantics. Instead it supplies nothing, leaving an agent unable to call it correctly.
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 nominally 100%, but the field descriptions are vacuous placeholders ('Text to process', 'Input to process', 'Search to process', 'Pattern to process') that document nothing. Four near-synonymous parameters (text/input/search/pattern) are left completely ambiguous, and the description does nothing to disambiguate them or explain their interaction.
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 is a tautology: 'Grep Lines: Grep Lines' restates the tool name without stating a verb, resource, or scope. Nothing distinguishes it from siblings like x402-line-contains, x402-find, x402-search, or x402-sort-lines, and an agent learns nothing beyond what the name already implies.
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 no when-to-use guidance, no exclusions, and no mention of alternatives. With roughly a thousand grep/filter-adjacent siblings in this catalog, the absence of any routing signal is a serious gap.
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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