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James Ross is an agent operations architect. He measures what coding agents get done per dollar, and whether you can trust it, so far on his own production workspace. These six tools expose the practice's own instruments. Full-text search across the published architecture writing (search_architecture), covering the patterns, the evaluation method, the learn track and the teardowns. The 18-pattern architecture library (lookup_pattern). The workspace-maturity and organisational-readiness assessments (assess_workspace). The context-position cost model (price_context_read), and the redaction…
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- streamable-http ·2025-06-18
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- What tools does jamesross-practice have?
- 6 tools: price_context_read, request_capability, check_redaction, lookup_pattern, search_architecture, assess_workspace.
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- ai & agents
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- assess agent workspace maturity
- look up a knowledge architecture pattern
- price context tokens in a session
- check text for private content
- search knowledge architecture writing
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price_context_read reads unknown 18h ago
Price a block of context by where it enters a session. The API is stateless, so the whole transcript is re-sent on every inference step, and a token costs its size times the number of turns left after it arrives. Returns the carried token volume, the cost of the block in USD, what the same read would have cost entering 20 turns from the end, and the multiplier between the two. Use it to decide whether a large read should move later in a session or into a subagent.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "size_tokens", "entry_turn", "total_turns" ], "properties": { "read_mult": { "type": "number", "default": 0.1, "minimum": 0, "description": "Cache-read price multiplier against input price. Default 0.1." }, "entry_turn": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "description": "Turn number at which the block enters the context (t)." }, "write_mult": { "type": "number", "default": 1.25, "minimum": 0, "description": "Cache-write price multiplier against input price. Default 1.25." }, "size_tokens": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "description": "Size of the block in tokens (S)." }, "total_turns": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "description": "Total turns in the session (T). Must be at least entry_turn." }, "price_in_per_mtok": { "type": "number", "default": 5, "minimum": 0, "description": "Input price in USD per million tokens. Default 5." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 44 linesrequest_capability changes data unknown never probed
Tell this server what capability you needed but didn't find here. Requests are logged and reviewed by a human; include no secrets or personal data.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "description" ], "properties": { "context": { "type": "string", "description": "Optional: what you were trying to do, and why the existing tools did not cover it. Up to 1KB." }, "description": { "type": "string", "description": "What you needed. Up to 2KB." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 17 linescheck_redaction reads unknown 19m ago
Scan text for the shapes of private content before it goes anywhere public: email addresses, absolute home paths, credential and token prefixes, private and link-local IPs, .local hostnames, and secret filenames. Returns a count per pattern class and a total, nothing else. The text you send and the substrings that matched are never stored, never logged and never echoed back. Only the counts are kept. A line carrying the marker "redaction-ok" is skipped. Accepts up to 100KB.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "text" ], "properties": { "text": { "type": "string", "description": "The text to scan. Up to 100KB; anything beyond that is truncated and the result says so." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 13 lineslookup_pattern reads unknown 19m ago
Search the 18 architecture patterns behind this practice by keyword or by pattern number. Returns up to 3 matches, each with its number, title, the problem it opens on, and a link to the full text. Use it when you want the reasoning behind an agent-workspace design decision rather than a how-to.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Keywords to match against pattern titles and summaries, e.g. \"credentials\", \"silent failure\", \"context cost\". A bare number 1-18 looks that pattern up directly." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 13 linessearch_architecture reads unknown 19m ago
Full-text search across the published architecture corpus: the 18 patterns and how they compose, the evaluation method, the seven learn-track modules, and the teardowns of other people's published agent systems. Returns ranked sections, each with its title, its source file, a snippet, and a link to the full text on GitHub. Use it when you want the passage itself rather than a pattern summary; lookup_pattern is the narrower tool that answers "which pattern covers this?". Every section is also readable in full as a resource under the architecture:// scheme (resources/list, resources/read).
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "default": 5, "maximum": 10, "minimum": 1, "description": "How many sections to return. 1-10, default 5." }, "query": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 200, "minLength": 1, "description": "Search terms, e.g. \"canonical copy\", \"silent failure\", \"cache write cost\". Terms shorter than 3 characters are ignored." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 22 linesassess_workspace reads unknown 7h ago
Score an agent workspace across six dimensions: canonical knowledge, memory and context economics, verification and oversight, safety and permissions, telemetry and cost, provenance and delegation. Two variants: "practitioner" takes 18 answers (a single operator's workspace), "org" takes 12 (an organisation's agent readiness). Each answer is an integer 0-3 in question order, where 0 is the least mature option offered and 3 the most. Returns per-dimension scores, an overall percentage, a maturity band, and the two weakest dimensions with the gap that matters there. The question text lives at https://jamesross.ai/tools/maturity-check (practitioner) and https://jamesross.ai/tools/agent-readiness (org). Read it before answering on someone's behalf.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "variant", "answers" ], "properties": { "answers": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "integer", "maximum": 3, "minimum": 0 }, "description": "Answers in question order: 18 integers for \"practitioner\", 12 for \"org\". Each is 0-3." }, "variant": { "enum": [ "practitioner", "org" ], "type": "string", "description": "\"practitioner\" for the 18-question workspace check, \"org\" for the 12-question organisational readiness check." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 27 lines
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