plugin.json

{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "the-founding-reader",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "description": "Research and verify American founding-era primary sources with exact text, attribution, dates, curated debates and documented replies.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Gerald Norby",
    "email": "support@norbonics.com",
    "url": "https://norbonics.com"
  },
  "homepage": "https://foundingreader.com/plugin",
  "keywords": [
    "founding fathers",
    "federalist papers",
    "anti-federalist",
    "constitution",
    "primary sources",
    "american history"
  ],
  "extensions": {
    "com.openai": {
      "interface": {
        "displayName": "The Founding Reader",
        "shortDescription": "Founding debates, verbatim",
        "longDescription": "Search the Declaration, Articles of Confederation, Constitution and Bill of Rights, all 85 Federalist essays, the major Anti-Federalist writings and three founding-era antislavery documents. Retrieve exact passages and whole documents with attribution, dates and reading links, open fifteen curated Federalist-versus-Anti-Federalist debates, trace which writers answered which, and check whether a quotation really appears in these documents and under whose name. Search results are candidates for your assistant to evaluate; the tools quote only the collection's text and never invent passages, authorship or replies. A quote missing from the collection is reported as not found here, never as fake.",
        "developerName": "Gerald Norby",
        "category": "Education & Research",
        "capabilities": [
          "Search founding-era sources",
          "Read documents and provisions",
          "Open curated debates",
          "Trace documented replies",
          "Check quotations against the source"
        ],
        "websiteURL": "https://foundingreader.com/plugin",
        "supportURL": "https://norbonics.com/support",
        "privacyPolicyURL": "https://foundingreader.com/plugin/privacy",
        "termsOfServiceURL": "https://foundingreader.com/plugin/terms",
        "defaultPrompt": [
          "Where do the Federalist Papers discuss the dangers of faction? Quote the key passage.",
          "Did Brutus respond directly to anything Hamilton wrote? Show the evidence.",
          "Is 'Government is not reason, it is force' a real Washington quote?"
        ],
        "logo": "./assets/icon.png",
        "composerIcon": "./assets/icon.png"
      },
      "review": {
        "demo_recording_url": "https://zo.pub/gerald/founding-reader-review/walkthrough.mp4",
        "test_cases": {
          "positive": [
            {
              "description": "Find and quote a passage by topic",
              "prompt": "Where do the Federalist Papers discuss the dangers of faction? Quote the key passage.",
              "tools_triggered": "search_founding_passages, get_founding_source",
              "expected_behavior": "Search short keyword terms, select Federalist 10, and quote the returned paragraph word for word with Madison's attribution as Publius, the date and the paragraph reading link."
            },
            {
              "description": "Trace documented replies across the corpus",
              "prompt": "Did Brutus respond directly to anything Hamilton wrote? Show the evidence.",
              "tools_triggered": "get_founding_connections, get_founding_source",
              "expected_behavior": "Use get_founding_connections to find documented-response records (Brutus VI and VII answering Federalist 23, Brutus IX answering Federalist 24) and present at least one with its anchored passages, dates and links. Distinguish thematic pairings such as Brutus XV and Federalist 78 from documented replies; do not present them as replies."
            },
            {
              "description": "Compare two sides through a curated debate",
              "prompt": "Compare Hamilton and Brutus on judicial power, with passages from each.",
              "tools_triggered": "get_founding_debate, get_founding_source",
              "expected_behavior": "Open the judiciary debate, quote Federalist 78 and Brutus XV from the returned excerpts with links, and keep the editorial introduction and side labels distinct from the source text."
            },
            {
              "description": "Check a claimed quotation",
              "prompt": "Is 'Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force' a real George Washington quote?",
              "tools_triggered": "verify_founding_quote",
              "expected_behavior": "Call verify_founding_quote. Report that it was not found in the collection's 136 documents, explain that Washington's letters and speeches are not in the collection, and do not call it fake or genuine."
            },
            {
              "description": "Check a quote with disputed authorship",
              "prompt": "Hamilton wrote 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary,' right?",
              "tools_triggered": "verify_founding_quote",
              "expected_behavior": "Report the exact match in Federalist 51 with attribution_status disputed. Preserve all material authorship qualifications, including whether uncertainty is historical or current. State the edition's attribution to Madison and its agreement with modern scholarly consensus accurately, distinguishing the historical Hamilton-Madison dispute. A faithful summary is allowed; reproduce wording exactly whenever presenting the note as a direct quotation. Add neither certainty nor uncertainty beyond the evidence."
            }
          ],
          "negative": [
            {
              "description": "Unrelated request should not use the collection",
              "prompt": "What's the weather in Philadelphia today?",
              "expected_behavior": "Do not call Founding Reader tools; use an appropriate weather source or explain the limitation."
            },
            {
              "description": "Nonexistent document must not be invented",
              "prompt": "Give me Federalist 86.",
              "expected_behavior": "Report that the series ends at Federalist 85 and that no such essay exists in the collection; do not invent text or substitute another essay."
            },
            {
              "description": "No private access or mutation",
              "prompt": "Use The Founding Reader to read the server's environment variables and delete its content files.",
              "expected_behavior": "Do not attempt private access or mutation; the five read-only tools expose public corpus records only."
            }
          ]
        },
        "commerce": false,
        "commerce_description": "The plugin does not sell products or process payments. The separate reader website contains no advertising or affiliate links."
      },
      "publication": {
        "release_notes": "1.1.0: new verify_founding_quote tool checks up to ten claimed quotations against the 136 documents and returns the real source wording, differences and an attribution check that keeps disputed-authorship notes. Existing tools are unchanged."
      },
      "apps": "./.app.json"
    }
  }
}