x402-lexical-diversity
Lexical Diversity: Lexical Diversity
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | No | Text to process | |
| input | No | Input to process |
Lexical Diversity: Lexical Diversity
| 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 of behavioral disclosure, and it discloses nothing: not whether the tool is a pure read/compute, not the metric definition, not the output format, not edge cases such as empty input or tokenization rules. The one-line body is pure duplication of the title.
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 the brevity is under-specification rather than conciseness: the single phrase contains no information at all and is not front-loaded toward any usable signal. Nothing in 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?
With no annotations, no output schema, two ambiguous optional parameters, and a title-only body, an agent cannot determine what the tool returns or how to invoke it meaningfully. The definition is completely inadequate for even a simple text-metric tool.
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 coverage is nominally 100%, but the two parameter descriptions are near-identical tautologies ('Text to process' and 'Input to process') for two overlapping string parameters named text and input. This is exactly the ambiguity a description should resolve — which parameter actually supplies the corpus, and whether they are aliases — and the description adds zero clarification beyond what the vague schema already says.
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 'Lexical Diversity: Lexical Diversity' — a tautology that simply restates the tool name twice. It names no verb, no operation, and gives no indication of what the tool computes (a diversity metric? a type-token ratio? a vocabulary richness score?) or what distinguishes it from siblings like x402-type-token-ratio, x402-char-diversity, or x402-word-density.
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, when not to, or which sibling (e.g. x402-type-token-ratio, x402-word-frequency, x402-hapax-legomena) is the better choice for a given intent. The agent is left to guess entirely.
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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