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Built-in

The five core tools every project ships with — how your assistant lists, searches, reads, and delivers your resources and prompts.

Every project starts with five built-in tools already installed. They’re the core that lets your assistant work with your resources and prompts from day one — no connection or API key required, and they can’t be removed. This is what makes a Ganju assistant answer from your content instead of guessing.

Tools

• Search Resources — the workhorse. It semantic-searches every resource attached to the server for the chunks most relevant to a query, ranked by similarity, and returns the top excerpts (default 5, max 20) with their URI, title, score, and text. The assistant runs this before answering anything about your data so it replies from real content rather than hallucinating.
• List Resources — enumerates every resource on the server as a list of {uri, title, description, mimeType}. Use it to browse the full inventory and pick a URI, versus Search Resources when you’re looking for content that matches a question.
• Read Resource — fetches the textual contents of one resource by URI so the assistant can quote, summarize, or reason about it inline. Returns plain text or stringified JSON. Binary files (PDFs, images, audio) aren’t inlined here — those are delivered with Send Resource.
• Send Resource — delivers a resource to the user as a channel attachment — a preview, player, or download link rather than raw text. Use it when someone asks to see, receive, or download a file. An optional caption adds a short message alongside it.
• List Prompts — lists every prompt and command the server exposes — both the ones you created and any from connected MCP servers — along with the exact slash command and arguments to run each on the current channel.

How they fit together

A typical answer chains them: Search Resources finds the relevant excerpts, then the assistant either cites those directly, calls Read Resource to pull a full document, or Send Resource to hand the user the file. List Resources and List Prompts are for discovery — showing what’s available and how to use it.

Next, add capabilities beyond your own content — see Gmail, Slack, or Web Search.

Last updated July 6, 2026