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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
JAIL_API_KEYNoOptional API key for higher limits. Get one at https://jail.li#pricing

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

CapabilityDetails
tools
{
  "listChanged": false
}
prompts
{
  "listChanged": false
}
resources
{
  "subscribe": false,
  "listChanged": false
}
experimental
{}

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

NameDescription
searchA

Search documents. Returns ranked results with title, author, year, description, url, id, score — not full content. Use URLs from results with fetch/browsing to read actual documents.

Use when: user asks to research, find papers/books/articles, look up facts, find discussions, legal cases, or any "search for..." request.

Strategy: use 2-4 keywords per query (English preferred). Pick the right type first. Try synonyms if few results. Search across multiple types to cross-reference. Use detail() for full metadata on promising results.

Args: query: Search query — use 2-4 keywords for best results. English preferred unless searching non-English content. Try different keywords and synonyms if first attempt returns few results. type: Content type (required). academic: OpenAlex/arXiv/Semantic Scholar/DBLP | wiki: Wikipedia 18 languages | books: books/digital libraries | legal: Case Law/CourtListener/EUR-Lex | forums: HN/StackExchange/Lobsters/LessWrong/60+ | economics: World Bank/IMF/FRED | packages: npm/PyPI/Crates.io | knowledge: Wikidata | news: news articles | music: Discogs/MusicBrainz | video: IMDb/YouTube | health: clinical trials | geo: world places | fandom: fan wikis | tech: Dev.to | audio: podcasts | social: Reddit/Mastodon/Lemmy | crypto: DeFi/tokens | predictions: prediction markets. limit: Results to return (1-50). Trial max 10, Pro max 50. cursor: Opaque pagination token. Use next_cursor from previous response.

detailA

Get full metadata for a document. Use IDs from search results.

Args: doc_id: Document ID from search results (e.g. "md5:abc123...", "hn:19415066", "doi:10.1038/...")

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

NameDescription
researchMulti-angle research: broad search, then drill into academic, books, forums.

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

NameDescription
schema_resourceCompact machine-readable schema for tools.

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