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List every Stimulsoft product/platform that has indexed documentation available through this MCP server. Returns a JSON array of { id, name, description } objects covering the full Stimulsoft Reports & Dashboards product line (Reports.NET, Reports.WPF, Reports.AVALONIA, Reports.WEB for ASP.NET, Reports.BLAZOR, Reports.ANGULAR, Reports.REACT, Reports.JS, Reports.PHP, Reports.JAVA, Reports.PYTHON, Server API, etc.). CALL THIS FIRST when the user's question is ambiguous about which Stimulsoft platform they are using, or when you need to pick a valid `platform` value to pass into `sti_search`. The returned platform `id` values are the exact strings accepted by the `platform` parameter of `sti_search`. This tool is cheap (no OpenAI call, no vector search) — call it freely whenever you are unsure about platform naming.

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Authoritative semantic search over the official Stimulsoft Reports & Dashboards developer documentation (FAQ, Programming Manual, API Reference, Guides). Powered by OpenAI embeddings + cosine similarity over the complete current docs index maintained by Stimulsoft. Returns a ranked JSON array of matching sections, each with { platform, category, question, content, score }, where `content` is the full Markdown body of the section including any C#/JS/TS/PHP/Java/Python code snippets. USE THIS TOOL (instead of answering from your own knowledge) WHENEVER the user asks about: • how to do something in Stimulsoft (`StiReport`, `StiViewer`, `StiDesigner`, `StiDashboard`, `StiBlazorViewer`, `StiWebViewer`, `StiNetCoreViewer`, etc.); • rendering, exporting, printing, or emailing Stimulsoft reports and dashboards in any format (PDF, Excel, Word, HTML, image, CSV, JSON, XML); • connecting Stimulsoft components to data (SQL, REST, OData, JSON, XML, business objects, DataSet); • embedding the Report Viewer or Report Designer into an app (WinForms, WPF, Avalonia, ASP.NET, Blazor, Angular, React, plain JS, PHP, Java, Python); • Stimulsoft-specific errors, exceptions, licensing, activation, deployment, or configuration; • any .mrt / .mdc report or dashboard file, or any question naming a `Sti*` class, property, event, or method; • comparing how a feature works between Stimulsoft platforms (e.g. "WinForms vs Blazor viewer options"). QUERIES WORK IN ANY LANGUAGE — English, Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese, etc. Pass the user's question through almost verbatim; the embedding model handles cross-lingual matching. Do NOT translate queries yourself. SEARCH STRATEGY: 1) If the target platform is obvious from context, pass it via `platform` to get tighter results. 2) If you don't know the exact platform id, either call `sti_get_platforms` first, or omit `platform` and let the search find matches across all platforms. 3) If the first search returns low scores (<0.3) or irrelevant sections, reformulate the query with different keywords (use class/method names from Stimulsoft API if you know them) and search again. 4) Prefer multiple focused searches over one broad search. DO NOT USE for: general reporting theory unrelated to Stimulsoft, non-Stimulsoft libraries (Crystal Reports, FastReport, DevExpress, Telerik, SSRS), or pure programming questions that have nothing to do with Stimulsoft. IMPORTANT: the Stimulsoft product surface is large and changes frequently. Your training data is almost certainly out of date. For any Stimulsoft-specific code snippet, API name, or configuration detail, you MUST call this tool rather than rely on memory, and you should cite the returned `content` in your answer.

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  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The user's question or topic, in any language. Keep it close to the original wording — do not translate or over-summarize. Good examples: 'how to export report to PDF in Blazor', 'как показать StiViewer в WPF на весь экран', 'StiWebViewer show/hide toolbar buttons', 'connect StiReport to REST API JSON data source', 'StiBlazorViewer FullScreenMode'. Bad examples (too vague): 'reports', 'help', 'error'."
    },
    "platform": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Restrict the search to a single Stimulsoft platform. Accepted values (case-sensitive): NET (WinForms / Reports.NET), WPF, AVALONIA, WEB (ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core / MVC), BLAZOR (Blazor Server / WebAssembly), ANGULAR, REACT, JS (vanilla HTML/JS), PHP, JAVA (Java SE / Jakarta EE), PYTHON, SERVER_API, GENERAL. If you are not 100% sure which id to use, either call `sti_get_platforms` first, or omit this field."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Restrict the search to a documentation section: `faq` (frequently asked questions with code snippets), `manual` (Programming Manual), `api` (API Reference), `guide` (How-to guides). Omit to search all categories."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Maximum number of results to return. Default 5, maximum 20. Use 3–5 for focused lookups, 10–20 when exploring or when the first search was too narrow."
    }
  },
  "required": [
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