Small models carry every tool definition on every request, and the
per-kind trios (four searches, three getters, three readers) cost a
quarter of an 8k context while giving the model near-duplicate choices.
Three generic endpoints replace them:
- POST files/search: one search over videos, archives, and docs with an
optional kind; channel (name or id), domain, author, subject each
imply their kind and are ignored for other kinds. When the term also
names channels/domains/authors, they are returned as `matches` so the
model can narrow without a second tool. Channels resolve by name, so
the library map already in the prompt is enough: no list call first.
- GET files/{id}: detail by id whatever the kind; videos now report
has_captions/has_comments and the full description, archives keep
their snapshot history.
- GET files/{id}/content?part=text|comments: captions, page text, or
comments, paged; a wrong part for the kind says what the file is.
Inventories take an optional slug on GET /inventories (one tool lists
and fetches). Listings are slimmed: no derivable captions/text links,
no size/mimetype, duration as H:MM:SS, published as a date. The
library map gains the tag names.
wrolpi_mcp keeps every existing tool name; the wrappers now call the
generic routes, and search_files/get_file/read_content are exposed too.
The old per-kind endpoints remain until the modes switch over.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live testing surfaced three ways small models went wrong summarizing a
library: they gave up after one empty search (misspelled channel names
found nothing), so zero-result searches now carry a retry hint and the
Research prompt requires list_collections before channel/site questions
and search_videos(channel_id) before claiming a channel is summarized;
they presented the familiar YouTube source URL instead of the WROLPi
link, so listings omit the source URL (archive detail keeps it); and
they invented links for channels, so channel collections now carry
their real /videos/channel page link. Search descriptions state that
search_str is optional for browsing the newest items.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lean, flat, LLM-shaped read-only endpoints over the library: global,
video, archive, and doc search; paged captions, archive text, and zim
entries; collections, inventories, and a media-directory text reader.
Links are server-computed; big content is paged, never truncated.
This ports the formatting layer from wrolpi_mcp (untouched for now)
into tested code. First phase of ai.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
