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Audit OpenAlice's AI tools end-to-end — call each one (using its declared example input as the starting point), judge whether it runs, whether its description / params / output are good, and write a review with concrete "how to change it" notes. Use when the developer wants to dogfood the tool surface, find tools that are broken / thin / confusing, or get an optimization to-do list: "audit the tools", "which tools are broken", "review all the MCP tools", "test the tool surface", "go use every tool and tell me what to fix". A half-automatic regression + tool-optimization input.

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Tool audit

You are auditing OpenAlice's AI tool surface from the developer side — not inside a workspace. The tools reach you over the openalice MCP server (wired by the repo-root .mcp.json). This is dogfooding: actually use each tool, then say what's wrong and how to fix it.

0. Preconditions — check first, don't skip

  1. The backend must be running. The MCP server is the live dev backend on :47332. If the openalice tools are NOT in your available toolset, stop and tell the developer to start it: 
    pnpm dev      # Guardian spawns UTA + Alice (MCP on 47332) + Vite
    then reconnect the MCP server (/mcp in Claude Code) or restart the session.
  2. You have the source. This is the repo — read src/tool/*.ts (and src/core/workspace-tool-center.ts for workspace-scoped tools) to get the authoritative, complete tool list and each tool's intent, instead of relying only on what the MCP toolset surfaces. Cross-check: a tool in the source but missing from your toolset is itself a finding.

1. Each tool's example IS your starting fixture

Every tool declares a runnable sample input via .meta({ examples: [...] }) on its inputSchema (see [[feedback_tool_example_input]]). It shows up as examples in the tool's JSON schema. Use examples[0] as the call input — don't invent parameters. If a tool has no example, that's a finding (note it), and fall back to the minimal valid input you can infer from the schema.

2. Procedure — per tool

Go through every tool. For each:

  1. Read its description and input schema (params + the declared example).
  2. Call it with the example input — EXCEPT the safety list below.
  3. Record a verdict on five axes:
    • Runs? — did it return a result, or error / hang / throw? Capture the exact error.
    • Description — does it tell the model clearly what the tool does, when to use it, and what it returns? Misleading or stale wording is a bug (e.g. a default that doesn't match behavior).
    • Params — are they coherent? Any dead params (declared but ignored), missing required ones, confusing names, or shapes the model will fumble?
    • Output — is the returned JSON useful and legible to a model, or thin / dumping raw vendor fields / empty when it shouldn't be?
    • Example — is the declared example representative and runnable?

3. Safety — do NOT execute broker mutations

These stage or place real broker operations. Do NOT call them — audit them statically (read schema + description + the staging flow in src/tool/trading.ts) and review the example without invoking:

placeOrder, modifyOrder, closePosition, cancelOrder, tradingCommit, tradingPush, tradingSync

Safe to actually run: all read-only tools, simulatePriceChange (dry-run, read-only), and entity_upsert / entity_search (local entity store, no money or broker involved — entity_upsert writes local state, which is fine).

When a read-only tool errors because no broker account is configured / market is closed / a vendor key is missing, that's an environment result, not a tool bug — say so and don't count it against the tool. The bug bar is: does the tool itself misbehave given a reasonable input?

4. Output — a review file

Write the review to tool-audit-report.md at the repo root (it's a throwaway artifact — don't commit it). Structure:

  • A one-line summary: N tools, X ran clean, Y errored, Z have description/ param/output issues.
  • A table — one row per tool: tool | ran? | issues | how to change it. Keep "how to change it" concrete and actionable (the point is a fix list, not vibes): e.g. "ratios: period/limit were dead until ttm:'include' — good now; output still dumps raw FMP fields under non-aliased names."
  • A short "top fixes" list — the handful worth doing first.

Be a skeptic, not a cheerleader: the value is in the problems found. If a tool is genuinely fine, one word ("clean") is enough — spend the words on what's broken.