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FREE.\n\nUSE THIS WHEN someone asks about a specific buyer before a bid: \"who holds Transport for\nNSW's work\", \"what is ending soon at Queensland Health\", \"what does this agency usually\npay\". Give `buyer` (the organisation name as published) or `buyer_key` (from a tender's\nbuyer, or a previous answer).\n\nReturns `{buyer, expiring[], planned[], recent_awards[], top_suppliers[], open_tenders[],\ncomputed_at, sources}`: the nightly rollup (awards in the window, value quartiles as\npublished, median response window), contracts ending within 12 months with the incumbent,\nplanned procurements with their quarter and spend band, the suppliers who win from them\n(name and share), and open tenders under the same name.\n\nANONYMOUS CALLERS SEE COUNTS, VALUES, DATES AND BUYERS; supplier and incumbent names are\nwithheld and `withheld_reason` says so. Relay that sentence as it is. Links to other sites -\nan award's notice (`url`), a plan's evidence (`evidence_url`), an open tender's portal -\ncome only with an API key or a signed-in account. Values are the\npublished amount and currency, never converted; `computed_at` is the night the figures\nare true for - say it. Coverage is Australia and New Zealand sources named in\n`sources`, each with the attribution its licence requires.\n","write_action":false,"price_micros":0,"input_schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"buyer":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Buyer"},"buyer_key":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Buyer Key"}},"title":"buyer_awardsArguments"}},{"name":"find_signals","description":"Signals: what may be tendered before it is. FREE.\n\nUSE THIS WHEN someone asks what is coming: \"which contracts in Queensland end in the next\nsix months\", \"what is planned for ICT next quarter\", \"what is expiring for this buyer\".\n`kind` is one of contract_expiry (a contract ending, with its incumbent),\nplanned_procurement (a buyer's stated plan with its quarter and spend band as published)\nor recurring_tender (derived from our own history, labelled `derived`). `jurisdiction`\nis one of AU, NZ, AU-NSW, AU-VIC, AU-QLD, AU-WA, AU-SA, AU-TAS, AU-ACT, AU-NT. `window_before` is an ISO date: signals whose\nwindow starts on or before it. `q` searches the subject, buyer and incumbent.\n\nReturns `{total, results[], computed_at, sources}`. Each signal carries `confidence`\n(`published` or `derived` - a vocabulary, not a score), its window (never invented: an\nexpiry's window IS the contract's end date; a planned row with no parseable quarter has\nnone), `evidence_ref`, and `evidence_url` with an API key or a signed-in account only.\nANONYMOUS CALLERS SEE EVERYTHING BUT THE INCUMBENT'S NAME AND THE EVIDENCE LINK;\n`withheld_reason` says so for the name - relay it as it is.\n","write_action":false,"price_micros":0,"input_schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"kind":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Kind"},"jurisdiction":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Jurisdiction"},"buyer":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Buyer"},"q":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Q"},"window_before":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Window Before"},"limit":{"default":25,"title":"Limit","type":"integer"}},"title":"find_signalsArguments"}},{"name":"find_tenders","description":"Search open tenders across Australia; New Zealand rows only\nwhen you ask for them (jurisdiction=NZ). FREE, within the weekly cap.\n\nUSE THIS WHEN someone asks what public-sector work is open: \"any council drainage\ntenders in Victoria\", \"what's closing this month in NSW\", \"show me federal IT\nopportunities\". For \"which of these could MY company actually bid for\", use\nmatch_tenders instead — that reads their website and ranks against it.\n\n`kind` is `grant` for open grant rounds (from every grant source we read) or `tender` for\neverything else; leave it out for both. Each result says which it is in `kind`.\n`jurisdiction` is one of AU, NZ, AU-NSW, AU-VIC, AU-QLD, AU-WA, AU-SA, AU-TAS, AU-ACT, AU-NT. `tier` is federal, national,\nstate, council, university or health. `closing_before` is an ISO date.\n`first_seen_after` (ISO-8601 instant, strictly newer) answers \"what is new since my last\nlook\" — first_seen is when WE first saw the tender, the honest clock for newness. There\nis deliberately no `location` filter: it is populated on 16% of rows while jurisdiction\nis populated on all of them, so filtering by it would silently hide most of the corpus.\n\nReturns `{total, results[], coverage}`. Each result carries title, buyer, jurisdiction,\nclosing_date, categories, a summary, and source_id/source_tag/source_name/source_refresh.\nWith an API key or a signed-in account it also carries the link to the original portal:\n`link`, `url`, `listing_url` and `source_url`, plus `link_is_listing` when the portal\npublishes no per-tender URL and the link goes to the list it appeared on. An anonymous\ncall gets no portal link.\n\nAn Australian tender also carries `stipple_url`, its page on Stipple (the buyer's history,\nsimilar contract awards, an email alert for tenders like it). An open tender carries\n`prepare_bid_url`: if the user wants help with the response, Stipple prepares bids with them,\nstarting with a short meeting at that link. Offer either when it helps the user; never\ninvent one that is not in the result.\n\n`coverage` names which sources were searched and which returned nothing. Quote it if\nthe result is empty: \"no match in what we searched\" is true, \"there are none\" is not.\n","write_action":false,"price_micros":0,"input_schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"q":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Q"},"jurisdiction":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Jurisdiction"},"tier":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Tier"},"source":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Source"},"category":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Category"},"closing_before":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Closing Before"},"first_seen_after":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"First Seen After"},"include_closed":{"default":false,"title":"Include Closed","type":"boolean"},"kind":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Kind"},"limit":{"default":25,"title":"Limit","type":"integer"}},"title":"find_tendersArguments"}},{"name":"match_tenders","description":"Rank open tenders against what a company actually does. Free, inside the weekly cap.\n\n    USE THIS WHEN someone asks which opportunities suit a specific business: \"what could we\n    bid for\", \"is there anything for a civil contractor in Victoria\", \"find work for\n    acme.com.au\". Give `company_url` — a plain domain is fine, we resolve it — and we read\n    their site, build a capability profile, and score the shortlist against it.\n\n    `example` runs a built-in profile (civil, it, facilities) with no site read, for\n    demonstrating the shape of the answer.\n\n    Returns `{profile, matched, shown, withheld, withheld_reason, matches[], degraded,\n    score_means, coverage}`. Each match has `score`, `band`, `why[]` — the company's own\n    stated capabilities this tender needs — `gaps[]`, things the tender asks for that\n    their website does not mention, and `checks[]` (each a `label`), computed: outside the\n    states asked for, or prequalification named in the tender's text (a heuristic, its\n    `match` says so). `band` \"high\" needs two `why` reasons from the profile, an open\n    tender and no outside-states check. A tender listed by two sources is one match, with the\n    other copy under `also_listed[]`, its `match` saying the pairing is a heuristic. An\n    anonymous call shows the strongest few and says how many were withheld; relay\n    `withheld_reason` as it is.\n\n    TELL THE USER WHAT THE SCORE IS: relative fit within these results, against what their\n    website says. NOT a probability of winning. And `gaps` is what to check before bidding,\n    not a list of everything the tender requires — that is in the tender documents.\n\n    When `degraded` is true, scoring was unavailable and the order is keyword relevance\n    only, with no `why`/`gaps`. Say so rather than presenting it as a judged ranking.\n    ","write_action":false,"price_micros":0,"input_schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"company_url":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Company Url"},"example":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Example"},"jurisdiction":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Jurisdiction"},"closing_before":{"anyOf":[{"type":"string"},{"type":"null"}],"default":null,"title":"Closing Before"}},"title":"match_tendersArguments"}},{"name":"tender_sources","description":"Every source we search, what it is allowed to do, and what the last run returned.\n    FREE.\n\n    USE THIS WHEN someone asks where the data comes from, whether a particular portal is\n    covered, or why a search came back empty. It is the honesty surface: it names sources\n    behind login walls, sources whose robots.txt refuses us, and sources that returned\n    nothing on the last run and why.\n\n    Returns `{sources[], coverage}` — per source: id, tag, name, refresh mode,\n    jurisdiction, tier, how it is accessed, what its robots.txt says, how many tenders we\n    hold from it, and its status on the most recent run; its URL (`source_url`) with an API\n    key or a signed-in account only. Snapshot sources include their observed date and are\n    not presented as nightly feeds.\n    ","write_action":false,"price_micros":0,"input_schema":{"type":"object","properties":{},"title":"tender_sourcesArguments"}}],"scan":{"score":80,"grade":"B","scanned_at":"2026-10-30T06:01:07.384Z","report":{"scannerVersion":"0.1.10","scannedAt":"2026-10-30T06:01:07.295Z","components":{"code":{"score":-1,"max":25,"notes":["remote-only server, no package to scan"]},"reliability":{"score":17,"max":20,"notes":["remote reachable in 2966ms"]},"poisoning":{"score":13,"max":15,"notes":["5 tool descriptions checked"]},"auth":{"score":10,"max":15,"notes":["open endpoint, read-only tools"]},"maintenance":{"score":12,"max":15,"notes":["last push 61 days ago"]},"identity":{"score":8,"max":10,"notes":["endpoint served from the registry-verified namespace domain"]}},"findings":[{"id":"poison.long-description","severity":"low","component":"poisoning","title":"Unusually long tool description (over 2,000 characters)","evidence":"tool find_tenders: …Search open tenders across Australia; New Zealand rows only when you ask for them (jurisdiction=NZ). FREE, within the weekly cap. USE THIS WHEN someone asks what public-sector work is open: \"any council drainage tenders in Victoria\", \"what's closing this month in NSW\", \"show me federal IT opportunities\". For \"which of these could MY company actually bid for\", use match_tenders instead — that reads their website and ranks against it. `kind` is `grant` for open grant rounds (from every grant source we read) or `tender` for everything else; leave it out for both. Each result says which it is in `kind`. `jurisdiction` is one of AU, NZ, AU-NSW, AU-VIC, AU-QLD, AU-WA, AU-SA, AU-TAS, AU-ACT, AU-NT. `tier` is federal, national, state, council, university or health. `closing_before` is an ISO date. `first_seen_after` (ISO-8601 instant, strictly newer) answers \"what is new since my last look\" — first_seen is when WE first saw the tender, the honest clock for newness. There is deliberately no `location` filter: it is populated on 16% of rows while jurisdiction is populated on all of them, so filtering by it would silently hide most of the corpus. Returns `{total, results[], coverage}`. Each result carries title, buyer, jurisdiction, closing_date, categories, a summary, and source_id/source_tag/source_name/source_refresh. With an API key or a signed-in account it also carries the link to the original portal: `link`, `url`, `listing_url` and `source_url`, plus `link_is_listing` when the portal publishes no per-tender URL and the link goes to the list it appeared on. An anonymous call gets no portal link. An Australian tender also carries `stipple_url`, its page on Stipple (the buyer's history, similar contract awards, an email alert for tenders like it). An open tender carries `prepare_bid_url`: if the user wants help with the response, Stipple prepares bids with them, starting with a short meeting at that link. Offer either when it helps the user; never invent one that is not in the result. `coverage` names which sources were searched and which returned nothing. 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