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list_event_types

List available system and custom event types.

Area

Discovery & Research

Group

Assets & events

Access

Read

Risk

Read-only

Details

Full description

List available event types. Call this BEFORE adding an event-driven condition or creating a new event type, so you reuse what already exists.

Returns two groups:

  • system_event_types — curated feeds maintained by Quawd (CPI, FOMC, NFP, earnings windows, etc.). Reference these directly in conditions; do NOT call create_event_type for them.
  • custom_event_types — types you (or this user) defined via create_event_type. Reference by id once data has been ingested.

Every item carries an explicit kind ("system" or "custom") so the distinction survives even if the response is flattened. The response also includes a summary count and a guidance reminder.

Capabilities

Bounded options and operating modes surfaced above the full JSON schema.

No bounded capability options are declared for this tool.

Required Inputs

None.

Optional Inputs

categoryanyOf (2 variants)Filter the bare-call catalog to one system taxonomy family: corporate, earnings, news, macro, energy, social, or custom. An unrecognized value returns an empty catalog, never the full list. Mutually exclusive with `ids`. This is the escape hatch once the catalog outgrows ~45 system types: results are NOT paginated, and an oversized response gets structurally truncated to 20 items per list (dropping the alphabetical tail) instead of erroring — narrow with `category` rather than assuming a bare call always returns everything.
idsanyOf (2 variants)Full-detail lookup for specific event type ids (system or custom, mix freely) — returns name, description, payload_schema, symbol coverage, and occurrence timestamps for exactly these ids, in the order given. Max 10 ids per call (that much full detail is exactly the payload the bare call avoids). Unknown ids are reported in `not_found`, never silently dropped. Mutually exclusive with `category`.
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