x402-is-business-day
Is Business Day: Is Business Day
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Is Business Day: Is Business Day
| 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, and it reveals nothing — no mention of which date is evaluated (presumably the current date, since there are no parameters), no definition of what counts as a business day (weekends only, or holidays too), and no return format. The text is a tautology that discloses zero behavior.
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?
Six words of pure repetition is under-specification, not conciseness. The phrase 'Is Business Day:' redundantly duplicates 'Is Business Day' — no sentence earns its place because no information is conveyed. This is analogous to a bare 'Process' description in quality.
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?
For a tool with no parameters, no annotations, and no output schema, the description is the only source of meaning, and it supplies none. Nothing explains the input basis, the definition of business day, or the return value, making the definition completely inadequate for correct 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?
With 0 parameters the schema triviaally covers 100%, but the description fails to clarify the crucial semantic point: since no inputs are accepted, the tool must operate on the current date, and the description never says this. The tautology adds no meaning beyond the empty schema and leaves the agent unsure what date the check applies to.
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 Business Day: Is Business Day' is a pure tautology — it restates the tool name with no verb, no resource, and no explanation of what 'business day' means. It provides no information an agent could use to distinguish this from the dozens of related date/business-day siblings like x402-add-business-days or x402-next-business-day. An agent cannot determine from this text what the tool actually returns.
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 guidance on when to use this tool versus alternatives. With a large sibling family including x402-is-weekend-date, x402-weekdays-between, x402-next-business-day, and x402-add-business-days, the description names none of them and gives no selection criteria. An agent has no basis for choosing this tool over its siblings.
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.
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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.