Line Sorter Skill

Overview

Perfect for organizing lists, cleaning up data files, and alphabetizing content with precise control over sorting behavior.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as LineSorterSkill. 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": "LineSorterSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "lines": "[\"banana\",\"apple\",\"cherry\"]"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about ["banana","apple","cherry"] in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for LineSorterSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

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.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`lines`Required	array	Array of text lines to sort (max 10,000)
`order`Optional	string	Sort order `ascdesc` default asc
`caseSensitive`Optional	boolean	Enable case-sensitive sorting

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": {
    "sorted": [
      "An apple a day keeps the doctor away",
      "banana",
      "Cherry blossoms bloom in spring",
      "date",
      "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
    ],
    "lineCount": 5,
    "order": "asc",
    "caseSensitive": false
  }
}

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
`sorted`	array	`["An apple a day keeps the doctor away","banana","Cherry blossoms bloom in spring"]`	Array of sorted text lines
`lineCount`	number	`5`	Total number of lines sorted
`order`	string	`asc`	Sort order that was applied
`caseSensitive`	boolean	`false`	Whether the sort compared case exactly; when false, lines are compared case-insensitively

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

List Organization: Sort and organize lists alphabetically for better readability and data management
Data Cleanup: Clean up and alphabetize data files with customizable sorting options
Content Sorting: Sort text content with case-sensitive or case-insensitive options
File Processing: Process and organize large text files with up to 10,000 lines

Other ways to use Line Sorter Skill

Set up Line Sorter 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.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →

Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →