x402-json-toolkit
JSON Toolkit: JSON toolkit — validate, transform, and query.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| json | No | Json to process | |
| input | No | Input to process |
JSON Toolkit: JSON toolkit — validate, transform, and query.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| json | No | Json to process | |
| input | No | Input to process |
Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.
Input schema / properties / jsonAdded value: +{
+ "description": "Json 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 disclosure burden, and it discloses nothing: no return format, no side effects, no operation-selection behavior, no error handling. For a tool that claims to validate/transform/query, this is empty of behavioral content.
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?
Very short and front-loaded, but the opening 'JSON Toolkit: JSON toolkit' is pure duplication that wastes the most valuable position. The tri-verb list is efficient, so structure is acceptable even if the first clause earns nothing.
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 output schema and no annotations, the description must supply the missing context, and it doesn't: there is no explanation of what 'validate/transform/query' means in practice or how those modes are selected. The high schema coverage does not compensate because the schema itself is uninformative.
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 schema nominally documents the two parameters ('json' and 'input'). However both are vague and the description adds no meaning beyond them — notably it never explains how the caller chooses validate vs transform vs query. Baseline 3 is appropriate when the schema does the documentation.
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 largely restates the name/title ('JSON Toolkit: JSON toolkit') and then adds three broad verbs — validate, transform, query. Those verbs hint at scope but name no concrete operation, and with a dozen specialized siblings (json-validate, json-pretty, json-merge, json-path, etc.) an agent cannot tell what this 'toolkit' actually does that they don't.
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 when-to-use guidance, no prerequisites, and no mention of the many narrower siblings it overlaps with. An agent has no signal for routing between this general toolkit and the specific json-* tools.
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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