Find Tools

Immutable Catalog Entry

This descriptor comes from the active versioned Portal catalog.

READffmpeg.find_tools

• Contract tier: agent_ready
• Risk: read
• Catalog version: 2026-07-12.3
• Descriptor hash: 6652b7dbdcc243153539279426391b68c21464bb5a1d189b416942936ede32b1

Use this to find FFmpeg tools from a natural-language task. It performs deterministic punctuation-normalized multi-token search over agent-ready descriptors and supports category, risk, tier, and result-limit filters.

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-find-tools-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.find_tools",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "query_example",
      "risk": "",
      "tier": "",
      "limit": 1,
      "category": ""
    }
  }
}

Arguments Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "risk": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Optional risk filter: read, write, or destructive."
    },
    "tier": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": "agent_ready",
      "description": "Optional contract tier filter: agent_ready, legacy, or hidden."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 8,
      "description": "Maximum number of ranked results to return; values are clamped from 1 through 25."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Natural-language task or tool terms; all normalized tokens must match the ranked descriptor text."
    },
    "category": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Optional exact manifest category filter."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query",
    "count",
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Number of returned ranked matches."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Normalized caller query."
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "serviceId",
          "toolName",
          "title",
          "summary",
          "category",
          "risk",
          "tier",
          "score"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "risk": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Normalized read, write, or destructive risk."
          },
          "tier": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Contract tier."
          },
          "score": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Deterministic text-match score."
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Human-readable tool title."
          },
          "summary": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Full tool-use description."
          },
          "category": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Manifest capability category."
          },
          "toolName": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Native FFmpeg MCP tool name."
          },
          "serviceId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Canonical provider service ID."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      },
      "description": "Ranked compact tool matches."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Code Examples

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mad_live_***' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-find-tools-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.find_tools",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "query_example",
      "risk": "",
      "tier": "",
      "limit": 1,
      "category": ""
    }
  }
}'

Node.js

const response = await fetch('https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-find-tools-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.find_tools",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "query_example",
      "risk": "",
      "tier": "",
      "limit": 1,
      "category": ""
    }
  }
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

url = 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-find-tools-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.find_tools",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "query_example",
      "risk": "",
      "tier": "",
      "limit": 1,
      "category": ""
    }
  }
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=60)
print(response.json())

Example Responses

200 Success

{
  "ok": true,
  "message": "Tool ffmpeg.find_tools executed successfully.",
  "note": "Response shape varies by MCP tool. Inspect live responses for exact fields."
}

502 Upstream Error

{
  "ok": false,
  "classification": "upstream_http_error",
  "message": "Upstream MCP returned a non-success status."
}