Random Quote Skill

Overview

Make a GET request without query parameters to pull a single entry. The endpoint responds with the quote text and the attributed author or source name. Every call pulls a distinct quotation from the collection to populate widgets, greeting banners, or terminal screens.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as RandomQuoteSkill. 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": "RandomQuoteSkill",
  "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": {
    "quote": "Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.",
    "author": "Joseph Campbell"
  }
}

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
`quote`	string	`Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.`	The text content of the random quote
`author`	string	`Joseph Campbell`	The author or source of the quote

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

Daily Motivation Widgets: When a user opens a productivity app, fetch a fresh quote and author to display on their morning dashboard.
Newsletter Footer Content: Add variety to recurring marketing emails by injecting a distinct quotation and creator credit into each outgoing send.
Chatbot Greeting Prompts: Community managers can program chat bots to share an inspiring quote during quiet hours to spur conversation among members.
Browser Tab Extensions: Replace blank browser tabs with a randomly selected quotation and author line whenever someone opens a new window.

Other ways to use Random Quote Skill

Set up Random Quote 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 →