x402-is-abundant-number
Is Abundant Number: Is Abundant Number
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Is Abundant Number: Is Abundant Number
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
With no annotations provided, the description carries the full burden of behavioral disclosure and completely fails to meet it. It reveals nothing about input requirements, output format, expected return values, or whether it performs a simple boolean check. An agent has no way to anticipate what invoking this tool will do or return.
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?
While the description is technically short, this is under-specification, not conciseness. There is no substantive content to structure, no front-loaded useful information, and the duplicated phrase 'Is Abundant Number: Is Abundant Number' is pure filler that wastes the small amount of space available.
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?
The description is completely inadequate. An agent cannot determine what to pass, what the tool does, what it returns, or how it differs from its abundant-number siblings. For a mathematical predicate, at minimum the description should state the input mechanism and the boolean output semantics; both are entirely absent.
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?
Per the rubric, 0 params sets a baseline of 4 since there is nothing for the description to document about parameters. However, this is a notable anomaly: a predicate called 'is-abundant-number' with no way to specify the number being tested suggests either a broken schema or an undocumented implicit input mechanism — the description should have clarified how input is passed.
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 Abundant Number: Is Abundant Number' is a pure tautology that merely restates the tool's name. It never explains what an abundant number is, what question the tool answers, or what operation it performs. For an agent unfamiliar with number-theory predicates, this provides zero semantic content.
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 guidance whatsoever about when to use this tool. The situation is especially problematic given the large cluster of near-identical sibling tools (x402-is-abundant, x402-is-abundant-num, x402-abundant-numbers, x402-is-highly-abundant), yet the description offers no differentiation or selection criteria among them.
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.