beacon
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEACON_TIMEOUT | No | HTTP timeout (seconds) for fetch | 15 |
| BEACON_LOG_LEVEL | No | Logging verbosity | INFO |
| BEACON_USER_AGENT | No | User-Agent for outbound requests | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
| experimental | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| beacon_searchA | Search the web (DuckDuckGo) and return ranked results. Use this to discover URLs for a topic. Then call beacon_fetch on the most relevant URL to read its content. Args: query: Search terms. max_results: Max hits to return (1..20, default 5). Returns: List of {"title", "url", "snippet"} objects. |
| beacon_fetchA | Fetch a URL and return its main readable text content. Extracts the article/page body (drops navigation, ads, boilerplate). Returns plain text, not HTML. Args: url: An http(s) URL. max_chars: Truncate content to protect context budget (default 8000). Returns: {"url", "title", "content"} or None if the URL cannot be fetched. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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