Fetch current Yahoo Sports home-page article cards with titles, summaries, publishers, publication times, URLs, and tags for sports news monitoring.
Yahoo Sports home-page stories. Returns the article cards currently embedded on the Yahoo Sports home page, including each card's title, summary, publisher, publication time, canonical URL, and complete upstream tag list.
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Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.
v1.17.18Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
No annotations exist, so the description carries the full burden; it partially meets it by describing the returned payload field-by-field and signaling that the set is a live snapshot ('currently embedded'). It omits freshness/caching behavior, result count limits, and whether the ordering is editorial or chronological.
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?
Two sentences, zero waste: the first identifies the resource, the second enumerates the payload fields in a single compact clause. The identifying information is front-loaded.
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 parameters and no output schema, the field enumeration in the description is the only source of return-value information and it covers it well. A brief note on result volume or freshness would close the remaining gap.
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?
The tool takes zero parameters, so there is nothing to disambiguate and the baseline of 4 applies. The description correctly makes no parameter claims, avoiding confusion about filtering options.
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?
States a specific verb and resource: returns the article cards currently embedded on the Yahoo Sports home page, and enumerates what each card contains. This implicitly distinguishes it from stream/feed siblings like yahoo_sports_news or yahoo_sports_section_stream, but no sibling is named explicitly.
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 explicit when-to-use guidance and no mention of alternatives such as yahoo_sports_news, yahoo_sports_more_news, or yahoo_sports_video_headlines. An agent must infer from the word 'home-page' that this is the default front-page snapshot rather than a searchable or filtered news source.
Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.