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Get recommendations for a title

get_recommendations_for_media

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Find anime/manga similar to a given title, ranked by user rating. Use the title's AniList ID to retrieve recommendations, optionally filtering out ones already on your list.

Instructions

List anime/manga AniList users recommend as similar to a given title, ranked by rating (highest first). Use search_media first to resolve the title to its AniList ID. Each result's mediaRecommendation.mediaListEntry (requires login) shows whether it's already on your own list — set excludeInList: true to filter those out server-side instead of checking each one yourself.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`page`	No	Page number for pagination. AniList's paginated connections (search results, a title's characters/staff/reviews, activity feeds, forum comments) reject a page whose page × perPage exceeds ~5000 entries with an upstream error, so paging that deep fails rather than returning more results.
`mediaId`	Yes	AniList ID of the anime/manga to get recommendations for.
`perPage`	No	Results per page (max 25).
`excludeInList`	No	[Requires login] Omit recommendations already on your own list. Filtered after fetching this page, so a page can come back with fewer than `perPage` results — not an error, just fewer new ones on that page. No-ops (nothing filtered) if not logged in, since there's no list to check against.

Output Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`recommendations`	Yes

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed6 schema fields changedv0.7.1Aug 1, 2026

addedInput schema / properties / mediaId / exclusiveMinimum
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Added value: +0
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removedInput schema / properties / mediaId / minimum
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Removed value: --2147483648
```

changedInput schema / properties / page / description

Previous value: -"Page number for pagination."New value: +"Page number for pagination. AniList's paginated connections (search results, a title's characters/staff/reviews, activity feeds, forum comments) reject a page whose page × perPage exceeds ~5000 entries with an upstream error, so paging that deep fails rather than returning more results."

addedInput schema / properties / perPage / exclusiveMinimum
```
Added value: +0
```
removedInput schema / properties / perPage / minimum
```
Removed value: -1
```

changedOutput schema / properties / recommendations / properties / nodes / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "items": {
-      "additionalProperties": {},
-      "properties": {
-        "id": {
-          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-          "type": "integer"
-        },
-        "mediaRecommendation": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "additionalProperties": {},
-              "properties": {
-                "id": {
-                  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-                  "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-                  "type": "integer"
-                },
-                "mediaListEntry": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "additionalProperties": {},
-                      "properties": {
-                        "id": {
-                          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-                          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-                          "type": "integer"
-                        },
-                        "status": {
-                          "anyOf": [
-                            {
-                              "type": "string"
-                            },
-                            {
-                              "type": "null"
-                            }
-                          ]
-                        }
-                      },
-                      "required": [
-                        "id"
-                      ],
-                      "type": "object"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ],
-                  "description": "Whether this recommended title is on the caller's own list — viewer-relative, so it only resolves when logged in; null both when logged out and when the title just isn't on the list (the two cases aren't distinguishable from this field alone)."
-                },
-                "siteUrl": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "type": "string"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                },
-                "title": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "additionalProperties": false,
-                      "properties": {
-                        "english": {
-                          "anyOf": [
-                            {
-                              "type": "string"
-                            },
-                            {
-                              "type": "null"
-                            }
-                          ]
-                        },
-                        "romaji": {
-                          "anyOf": [
-                            {
-                              "type": "string"
-                            },
-                            {
-                              "type": "null"
-                            }
-                          ]
-                        }
-                      },
-                      "type": "object"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                }
-              },
-              "required": [
-                "id"
-              ],
-              "type": "object"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "rating": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "userRating": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        }
-      },
-      "required": [
-        "id"
-      ],
-      "type": "object"
-    },
-    "type": "array"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "items": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "properties": {
+        "id": {
+          "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+          "maximum": 2147483647,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "mediaRecommendation": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "additionalProperties": {},
+              "properties": {
+                "id": {
+                  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+                  "maximum": 2147483647,
+                  "type": "integer"
+                },
+                "mediaListEntry": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "additionalProperties": {},
+                      "properties": {
+                        "id": {
+                          "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+                          "maximum": 2147483647,
+                          "type": "integer"
+                        },
+                        "status": {
+                          "anyOf": [
+                            {
+                              "type": "string"
+                            },
+                            {
+                              "type": "null"
+                            }
+                          ]
+                        }
+                      },
+                      "required": [
+                        "id"
+                      ],
+                      "type": "object"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ],
+                  "description": "Whether this recommended title is on the caller's own list — viewer-relative, so it only resolves when logged in; null both when logged out and when the title just isn't on the list (the two cases aren't distinguishable from this field alone)."
+                },
+                "siteUrl": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "format": "uri",
+                      "type": "string"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ]
+                },
+                "title": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "additionalProperties": false,
+                      "properties": {
+                        "english": {
+                          "anyOf": [
+                            {
+                              "type": "string"
+                            },
+                            {
+                              "type": "null"
+                            }
+                          ]
+                        },
+                        "romaji": {
+                          "anyOf": [
+                            {
+                              "type": "string"
+                            },
+                            {
+                              "type": "null"
+                            }
+                          ]
+                        }
+                      },
+                      "type": "object"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ]
+                }
+              },
+              "required": [
+                "id"
+              ],
+              "type": "object"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "rating": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+              "minimum": -9007199254740991,
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Net rating (RATE_UP minus RATE_DOWN votes across all users), not the caller's own."
+        },
+        "userRating": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "enum": [
+                "NO_RATING",
+                "RATE_UP",
+                "RATE_DOWN"
+              ],
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "type": "array"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

Changed2 schema fields changedv0.4.0Jul 28, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / recommendations / properties / nodes / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "items": {
-      "additionalProperties": {},
-      "properties": {
-        "id": {
-          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-          "type": "integer"
-        },
-        "mediaRecommendation": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "additionalProperties": {},
-              "properties": {
-                "id": {
-                  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-                  "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-                  "type": "integer"
-                },
-                "mediaListEntry": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "additionalProperties": {},
-                      "properties": {
-                        "id": {
-                          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
-                          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
-                          "type": "integer"
-                        },
-                        "status": {
-                          "anyOf": [
-                            {
-                              "type": "string"
-                            },
-                            {
-                              "type": "null"
-                            }
-                          ]
-                        }
-                      },
-                      "required": [
-                        "id"
-                      ],
-                      "type": "object"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                },
-                "siteUrl": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "type": "string"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                },
-                "title": {
-                  "anyOf": [
-                    {
-                      "additionalProperties": false,
-                      "properties": {
-                        "english": {
-                          "anyOf": [
-                            {
-                              "type": "string"
-                            },
-                            {
-                              "type": "null"
-                            }
-                          ]
-                        },
-                        "romaji": {
-                          "anyOf": [
-                            {
-                              "type": "string"
-                            },
-                            {
-                              "type": "null"
-                            }
-                          ]
-                        }
-                      },
-                      "type": "object"
-                    },
-                    {
-                      "type": "null"
-                    }
-                  ]
-                }
-              },
-              "required": [
-                "id"
-              ],
-              "type": "object"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "rating": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "userRating": {
-          "anyOf": [
-            {
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            {
-              "type": "null"
-            }
-          ]
-        }
-      },
-      "required": [
-        "id"
-      ],
-      "type": "object"
-    },
-    "type": "array"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "items": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "properties": {
+        "id": {
+          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "mediaRecommendation": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "additionalProperties": {},
+              "properties": {
+                "id": {
+                  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+                  "minimum": -9007199254740991,
+                  "type": "integer"
+                },
+                "mediaListEntry": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "additionalProperties": {},
+                      "properties": {
+                        "id": {
+                          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+                          "minimum": -9007199254740991,
+                          "type": "integer"
+                        },
+                        "status": {
+                          "anyOf": [
+                            {
+                              "type": "string"
+                            },
+                            {
+                              "type": "null"
+                            }
+                          ]
+                        }
+                      },
+                      "required": [
+                        "id"
+                      ],
+                      "type": "object"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ],
+                  "description": "Whether this recommended title is on the caller's own list — viewer-relative, so it only resolves when logged in; null both when logged out and when the title just isn't on the list (the two cases aren't distinguishable from this field alone)."
+                },
+                "siteUrl": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "type": "string"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ]
+                },
+                "title": {
+                  "anyOf": [
+                    {
+                      "additionalProperties": false,
+                      "properties": {
+                        "english": {
+                          "anyOf": [
+                            {
+                              "type": "string"
+                            },
+                            {
+                              "type": "null"
+                            }
+                          ]
+                        },
+                        "romaji": {
+                          "anyOf": [
+                            {
+                              "type": "string"
+                            },
+                            {
+                              "type": "null"
+                            }
+                          ]
+                        }
+                      },
+                      "type": "object"
+                    },
+                    {
+                      "type": "null"
+                    }
+                  ]
+                }
+              },
+              "required": [
+                "id"
+              ],
+              "type": "object"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "rating": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "type": "number"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "userRating": {
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "type": "array"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

addedOutput schema / properties / recommendations / properties / pageInfo

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": {},
+  "description": "Whether another page exists — use this to decide whether to paginate.",
+  "properties": {
+    "hasNextPage": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "boolean"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}

Addedv0.3.0Jul 26, 2026
Removedv0.2.0Jul 21, 2026
Addedv0.2.0Jul 21, 2026

TDQS

A4.5/5.0

Behavior4/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

Beyond the readOnlyHint and openWorldHint annotations, the description adds meaningful behavioral context: results are 'ranked by rating (highest first)', the mediaListEntry field 'requires login' to show list status, and excludeInList filters 'server-side' rather than client-side. This gives the agent a realistic expectation of behavior without repeating annotation information.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness5/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

The description is three sentences, tightly packed with essential purpose, prerequisite, and behavioral details. It front-loads the core function, then adds actionable usage guidance. No fluff or redundancy—each sentence earns its place.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness5/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

Given the tool's moderate complexity and the presence of an output schema, the description is complete. It covers the main use case, the required setup step (search_media), auth-dependent behavior (login for mediaListEntry), and filtering options. The agent has enough to invoke the tool correctly without further clarification.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters4/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

The input schema already provides detailed descriptions for all parameters (100% coverage), so the baseline is 3. The description adds value by explaining the workflow for mediaId ('Use search_media first') and the practical trade-off of excludeInList ('instead of checking each one yourself'), which goes beyond the schema's already solid parameter docs.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose5/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

The description clearly states the tool's function: 'List anime/manga AniList users recommend as similar to a given title, ranked by rating (highest first).' This specifies the verb (list), resource (recommendations), and scope (similar to a title), and distinguishes it from sibling tools like get_recommendation (singular) by focusing on a list of recommendations.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines4/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

The description provides clear context on when to use the tool (after resolving a title via search_media: 'Use search_media first to resolve the title to its AniList ID') and how to use a key parameter (excludeInList to filter server-side). It does not explicitly mention when not to use it, but the workflow guidance is strong.

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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