What Your AI Tools Can Do

Twenty-nine read tools. Your AI tools choose among them from what you asked, so you never name one yourself. The names matter in one place: your client’s tool permission list, where you decide what to allow.

Group	What it answers
Orders	Find an order, read it in full, and see its items, fulfillments, shipments, and history.
Products	Find a product, and read its pricing, cost, stock, suppliers, and bundle contents.
Analytics	Demand, shipping, inventory position, and the coverage between ordered and shipped.
Supply Chain	Suppliers, purchase orders, inbound shipments and their costs, and the warehouses they arrive at.
History	What happened to a product, integration, inventory record, supplier, purchase order, inbound shipment, brand, or fulfillment.

Start With a Company

list_companies and list_documentation_pages are the only tools that are not scoped to a company. Every other tool takes a company as an argument, so your AI tools call list_companies first and ask you which company you mean when more than one comes back.

If you work in a single company, you will rarely notice this happening. If you work in several, naming the company in your question saves a round trip: “In Northwind, which orders are on hold?”

Every Tool

Tool	Shown in your client as	What it answers
list_companies	List the companies you can work in	Which companies you can access.
search_orders	Find orders	Orders you don’t have a number for, by date, state, sales channel, origin, tag, SKU, tracking number, or customer details.
get_order	Get an order	One order in full, including the state of each fulfillment on it.
list_order_items	List what was ordered	The lines of an order, with price and how much is still unassigned.
list_order_fulfillments	List how an order is being prepared	The fulfillments behind an order, and whether each reached the system meant to receive it.
list_order_shipments	List where an order’s packages are	Carrier, tracking number, package count, and dates.
get_order_timeline	See what happened to an order	The history of an order and of every fulfillment on it.
search_products	Find products	Products by name, SKU, UPC, type, brand, or supplier, each with price and stock.
get_product	Get a product	One product in full, including cost, measurements, suppliers, and bundle contents.
get_timeline	See what happened to something	The history of one product, integration, inventory record, supplier, brand, or fulfillment.
get_demand_summary	Total demand over a period	Units ordered, orders, revenue, and SKUs sold, broken down by SKU and sales channel.
get_demand_series	Demand over time	The same figures as a series, one point per day, week, or month.
get_shipment_summary	Total shipped over a period	Units shipped, shipments, revenue, and SKUs moved.
get_shipment_series	Shipping over time	The same figures as a series.
get_inventory_summary	Recorded inventory position	Available, on hand, in stock, allocated, and incoming, by SKU and warehouse.
get_inventory_series	Inventory position over time	The same position at the close of each day, week, or month.
get_coverage_summary	Ordered against shipped over a period	Units ordered against units shipped, the fill rate, and the unfulfilled gap.
get_coverage_series	Ordered against shipped over time	The same comparison as a series.
list_inventory_changes	Recorded inventory changes	Each change to a company’s inventory, newest first, with its cause and the levels it left.
search_suppliers	Find suppliers	Suppliers by name, location, category, status, lead time, on-time delivery, or quality rating.
get_supplier	Get a supplier	One supplier in full, including terms, performance, products, and spend.
search_purchase_orders	Find purchase orders	Purchase orders by PO number, SKU, supplier, status, payment status, or date.
get_purchase_order	Get a purchase order	One purchase order in full, with each line’s ordered, shipped, received, and remaining quantities.
list_purchase_order_items	List purchase order lines	Lines across orders, such as how many units of a SKU are still to come.
search_supply_shipments	Find inbound shipments	Shipments from suppliers by number, container, tracking number, bill of lading, destination, status, or date.
get_supply_shipment	Get an inbound shipment	One inbound shipment in full, including its items and the purchase orders it carries.
get_supply_shipment_costs	Get what an inbound shipment cost	Shipping, duties, taxes, fees, and landed cost, with tariff codes.
list_warehouses	List warehouses	A company’s warehouses and the ids other tools narrow by.
list_documentation_pages	List the Endless documentation	Every help page, so your AI tools can answer how something works in Endless.

Follow-Up Questions

Each answer includes the ids that follow-up questions need, so you do not have to look anything up. A product from search_products includes its supplier id, which finds everything else bought from that supplier. A fulfillment listed on an order includes the id that reads its history.

This is why a vague first question still works. Your AI tools start with a search, then use the ids in the results.

Counting Questions Come Back in One Call

A search answers with how many matched in total, not only the page it returned. “How many orders did we take last week?” is one call, not a count of rows on screen.

When a Tool Is Missing

Your client asks for the tool list when it connects and then holds on to it, so a tool released after you connected will not appear on its own. See Keeping Your Tool List Current.

Analytics tools require a plan that includes ECHO, and supply chain tools require a plan that includes supply chain. If they are missing after a refresh, contact support@endlesscommerce.com.