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E-TOOLS-005

what doctor prints (warning)2 of 5 extracted host tools are live; the agent will never offer the other 3: host_customers_list (graded audience “operator”, and only end-user tools are on by default), host_admin_purge (turned off in .vendo/overrides.json); To turn one back on, set its “disabled”: false in .vendo/overrides.json
Your catalog extracted more tools than the agent can actually use. Nothing is broken. This names the gap so you decide, instead of finding out later when the assistant cannot answer a question and will not say why. check tools/live-surface · error_code E-TOOLS-005 · doctor exits 0 (warning only)

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What you’re seeing

A host tool’s final state is three layers stacked in order: the extracted skeleton in .vendo/tools.json, then the AI judge’s call in .vendo/judgments.json, then your own .vendo/overrides.json, which wins last. Doctor compares the number of tools that survive that stack against the number in tools.json. When they differ, it names each missing tool and the layer that turned it off.

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Why a tool is off

Graded for operators or staff. The judge decides who a tool is for. A tool graded operator or internal is switched off for the embedded agent by default. This is deliberate and fail-closed. An endpoint that returns your whole customer book with revenue is not something an end user’s assistant should read, so Vendo hides it unless you say otherwise. Turned off in judgments.json. The judge read the handler and disabled the tool outright. Turned off in overrides.json. You did this. Nothing to explain.

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The fix

Usually there is nothing to fix. A staff tool staying hidden is the system working. If you have looked at a tool and you want the agent to have it, say so explicitly in .vendo/overrides.json. Your file is the last word, so this beats both the grade and the judge:
Enablement resolves once at boot, so restart the app after the edit. Before you turn one on, check what it actually returns. The reason most staff tools are graded that way is that they return every record rather than the signed-in user’s own. If that is the case here, scope the endpoint per user first and re-run vendo sync. Then the judge can grade it for end users honestly, and you will not need an override at all.

E-TOOLS-001

every tool disabled

E-TOOLS-002

tool surface is empty

E-TOOLS-003

tools ungraded

E-TOOLS-004

tools declare no shape