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resident_directory_search

Finds people in a community by name, email or unit.

Search resident directory. Finds people in a community by name, email or unit.

Who can use it: Owners and managers.

Scope Effect Hints
people:read read reads only, idempotent

Description shown to assistants

Use this when a manager or owner asks to find residents by unit, name, or email.

Arguments

Argument Type Required About
property_id string No The community’s public id (prop_web…). Pass it on every call.
query string No Part of a name, email address or unit.
limit integer No How many to return. From 1 to 100.

What it returns

Every result has content (one short sentence for the person) and structuredContent (the data below). A tool that could not run answers with isError: true and a sentence saying why; see Errors and limits.

  • query: the words searched for.
  • residents: each with user_id, name, email, role and unit.

structuredContent follows this JSON Schema, also in tools/list as outputSchema:

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "property": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": { "type": "string" },
        "name": { "type": "string" },
        "addressLine1": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "addressLine2": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "city": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "state": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "postalCode": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "timezone": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "billingFrequency": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "demoClone": { "type": "boolean" },
        "demoPersona": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "demoExpiresAt": { "type": ["string", "null"] }
      },
      "required": ["id", "name"]
    },
    "query": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "residents": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "user_id": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
          "name": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
          "email": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
          "role": { "type": "string" },
          "unit": { "type": ["string", "null"] }
        },
        "required": ["role"]
      }
    }
  },
  "required": ["property", "residents"]
}

Notes

  • query matches part of an email address, first name, last name or unit name, ignoring case. Without it, members are listed.
  • limit defaults to 25, at most 100.

Example

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "resident_directory_search",
    "arguments": {
      "property_id": "prop_web4k2m9q7x1v8c3n5b6z0a2s4d",
      "query": "14"
    }
  }
}

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