Random Advice Skill

Overview

Send a GET request without parameters to fetch an advice entry. The endpoint responds with a random advice string, its unique identifier, and a language code indicating the text language. Calls execute on demand, returning one advice slip per request.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as RandomAdviceSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "RandomAdviceSkill",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "id": "3xx4VZSZ",
    "advice": "Be creative and innovative.",
    "lang": "en"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`id`	string	`3xx4VZSZ`	Unique identifier for the generated advice entry
`advice`	string	`Be creative and innovative.`	The randomly generated piece of advice text
`lang`	string	`en`	Language code of the generated advice

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Discord Bot Command: Chatbot developers fetch a quick piece of advice whenever a community member types a designated advice trigger command.
Daily Wisdom Notifications: To keep users engaged during morning routines, wellness apps pull a fresh advice slip to send as a push notification.
Loading Screen Distraction: Display a thoughtful advice quote on application progress screens while users wait for slow background jobs to finish.
Terminal Login Greeting: When an engineer opens a new terminal session, internal developer tools render a random tip on login.

Other ways to use Random Advice Skill

Set up Random Advice Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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