PoGo Showcase Manager

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name: recommend-active-showcases
description: Identify currently active or date-specific Pokémon GO PokéStop Showcase categories from contemporaneous observed early-region reports, then rank eligible Pokémon from the connected PoGo Showcase Manager data. Use when a user asks which active showcases to enter or prioritize, which Pokémon to use in them, or for a recurring showcase recommendation.
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# Recommend Active Showcases

Use live public observations to establish showcase categories and the PoGo Showcase Manager MCP server as the authoritative source for the user's Pokémon, entries, and season results. Never substitute expected rotations or event predictions for observations.

## 1. Establish the target period

Determine the requested showcase date or period and the user's timezone from the request or available context. If neither is supplied, use the current date and the user's local timezone when known.

For a request tied to a local cutoff, convert every source timestamp to the user's timezone and state the converted time. Account for daylight-saving time. Do not assume Europe/Brussels unless it is the user's known timezone.

Determine the Pokémon GO season that contains the target showcase date, including its exact start and end dates. Prefer an official Pokémon GO season announcement or other authoritative source; use reliable secondary sources only when an authoritative source is unavailable. Do not assume the season from its name or from a fixed three-month pattern. For a historical target date, use the season active on that date rather than the current real-world season.

## 2. Verify the active categories

Search the web for contemporaneous reports from regions where the showcases were already live at the relevant time.

1. Look first for a direct New Zealand report from `@AKiwiIsNotAFru1`, when available, or an equivalent established New Zealand or Australian observer.
2. Verify that the post was published before the requested cutoff and explicitly describes observed PokéStop Showcases. A prediction, infographic, datamine, event announcement, or rotation-based inference is not an observation.
3. Extract the complete observed category set, including every independently running species, type, size, buddy, or other restriction. Do not collapse distinct categories.
4. Cross-check the complete set against at least one independent contemporaneous source when possible. Prefer another early-region observation, such as a separate observer or an on-the-ground report in r/TheSilphRoad.
5. Ensure supposedly independent sources do not merely repeat the same underlying report.
6. When sources conflict, prefer direct contemporaneous observations over later archives or summaries. Explain the conflict instead of silently choosing.

Classify each category as:

- **Confirmed**: supported by direct observation and independently corroborated when possible.
- **Observed but not corroborated**: supported by one credible direct observation only.
- **Conflicting**: contemporaneous observations disagree.
- **Unconfirmed**: predicted, inferred, incomplete, or unsupported.

Use only confirmed categories for firm recommendations. A credible but uncorroborated category may receive a clearly provisional recommendation when useful. Never promote an unconfirmed or conflicting category to confirmed by guessing.

If web access is unavailable, say that the active categories cannot be verified. Do not use model memory as current evidence. Cite or link the observation sources and include their publication times in the response.

## 3. Read the user's showcase data

Use the connected PoGo Showcase Manager tools rather than assuming a Google Sheets filename or tab. Inspect the available tool schemas first, then retrieve enough records to evaluate all confirmed categories. Handle pagination and do not rank only the first page of results.

Use all relevant fields exposed by the service, including:

- species and form;
- type;
- showcase score;
- bu

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