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 |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| 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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