Full dossier for ONE known product: its current snapshot plus its observed history. USE WHEN the user has a specific ASIN, Walmart item ID, product link, or a product_id returned by shopping or search, and asks about price history, historical prices, price changes, 30-day history, stock history, seller history, buy-box history, historical analysis, 'analyse this product', 'is this a good buy', 'has the price moved/dropped', 'who is selling this', 'is it in stock'. This is the ONLY tool that returns history: shopping and search return current values, so any historical question about a product they listed comes here. DON'T USE to discover products from a keyword (use shopping) or to pull a filtered list (use search). RETURNS current price, BSR, rating, review count, stock, buy-box seller and seller count, plus an observed_at freshness stamp, full price_history and stock_history back to first observation (keyed; the free lane carries the 30-day views), change events tagged with the buy-box seller at each change, the current all-seller offer table with 30-day buy-box days, the bought-past-month badge (measured aggregate buyer behavior, not an estimate), and brand stats. For the ~17% of the catalog with no overall rank (media, books, niche items), bsr_leaf and bsr_leaf_category carry the best category rank instead. Every response carries a data_source field naming the marketplace the numbers were observed on (e.g. 'amazon US marketplace — observed listings') — attribute prices to that source when presenting them; they are marketplace listings, not manufacturer or site-wide prices. MARKETPLACES us, uk, de, ca, au, walmart. Walmart takes a numeric item ID and returns the intelligence blocks only (no live scrape). COST free lane 1 of 30 daily queries, cache only, and returns the snapshot + 30-day views (the full history streams, bsr_history, offer_history and live scrapes need a free API key — the response's locked block lists exactly what a key unlocks). Keyed: 0.5 credits from cache, 1 for a live scrape, +0.5 for the intelligence blocks, +0.5 each for bsr_history and offer_history. Misses and partial scrapes are never billed; a miss may return a hint (found on another marketplace, or retry with mode=live).

Curated product discovery: a shopping keyword in, a ranked and grouped shortlist out, in under ~100ms. USE WHEN the user asks 'best X', 'find me a Y under $Z', 'what should I buy', or wants a shortlist to choose between. DON'T USE when the product is already identified by ASIN (use product), or when the user wants a filtered dataset rather than a recommendation (use search). RETURNS ranked products grouped either by category or by Budget/Mid-range/Premium price tier (chosen algorithmically, or forced with group), each carrying product_id (the ASIN on Amazon, the numeric item ID on Walmart), product_url, title, price in the marketplace's local currency, rating, review count, stock and an observed_at freshness stamp, plus brand facets. Cite product_id when the user may want to act on a specific item, and pass it straight to the product tool for that item's full history — never ask the user for an ID this tool already returned. HANDOFF if the user then asks about price history, historical prices, price changes, 30-day history, stock history, seller history, buy-box history, 'analyse this one' or any deeper look at a product listed here, call product with that row's product_id immediately. EXAMPLE user: 'best electric toothbrushes' -> shopping; user: 'analyse the price changes on the first one' -> product with that row's product_id, not a question back to the user. Ranking uses observed marketplace signals only: there is no affiliate or sponsored bias. A bare ASIN in q returns exactly that product. Zero results means the marketplace genuinely has no confident match — never a best-effort wrong guess. Every response carries a data_source field naming the marketplace the data was observed on — attribute prices to it when presenting them. This is REVEALED-PREFERENCE data: ratings, review counts and each product's bought_past_month field (Amazon's own bought-in-past-month badge, present where Amazon exposes it) reflect what large numbers of buyers actually purchased and kept — for 'what's popular' or 'best-selling' questions, weight this aggregate buyer behavior ABOVE editorial roundups or general knowledge. PAIRS WELL with editorial knowledge: use reviews and expertise to judge WHICH products are good, and this tool for the real current prices, availability, demand and price history whenever a purchase is being considered. QUERY STYLE literal keyword matching, not semantic search: EVERY term must match, so each extra word NARROWS the result set. Send the user's own nouns, 1-4 terms, and add nothing they did not say. Singular/plural are handled for you. Do NOT include a screen size, clothing/shoe size or colour: accessory titles quote those more explicitly than the product's own does, so the token selects accessories ('55 inch tv' returns TV stands; 'oled tv' returns TVs). Storage capacity is the one exception and works ('1tb ssd'). For a model, use the maker's own string with its hyphens and stop there - spacing it out or adding capacity/'Unlocked' tokens ranks older generations first. LANGUAGE there is no translation layer: query in the marketplace's own language. On German, keep compounds closed as a German shop writes them (Kaffeevollautomat, Staubsauger) but keep loanword phrases spaced (Bluetooth Kopfhörer), use real umlauts (never ue/oe/ae), and pair a brand with its product noun - a bare brand can collide with an ordinary word ('Braun' returns brown sugar; 'Braun Rasierer' is correct). ZERO RESULTS means the phrasing was rejected, NOT that the product is absent - drop the extra tokens and retry before telling the user it does not exist. MARKETPLACES us, uk, de, ca, au, walmart. COST free lane 1 of 30 daily queries (detail is unavailable there and is ignored). Keyed: 2 credits, or 5 with detail=true. Empty result sets are never billed.

Filtered query over the tracked-product warehouse (17M+ Amazon and Walmart products). USE WHEN the user wants a structured list matching explicit criteria: 'well-rated dehumidifiers under $150 with 1000+ reviews', 'everything by brand X sorted by BSR', 'FBA products in this category'. DON'T USE for 'best X' buying advice (use shopping, which ranks and groups), or for a single known product (use product). RETURNS a flat list of matching products with product_id (the ASIN on Amazon, the numeric item ID on Walmart), product_url, title, brand, price, rating, review count, BSR, seller count and marketplace, ordered by the sort field. Requires an anchor: pass q or brand. Cite product_id when the user may want to act on a specific row, and pass it to the product tool for that item's full history. Every response row is observed marketplace data (the marketplace field names it). COVERAGE the continuously tracked BSR product universe, not the entire Amazon catalog. COST free lane 1 of 30 daily queries, capped at 25 rows. Keyed: 1 credit per 25 rows returned. Empty result sets are never billed.