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netcafe-ai-tools
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Vercel AI SDK tools that return finished files: PDF, docx, charts, subtitles, invoices, screenshots — one hosted endpoint, free quota, no API key to start.
Vercel AI SDK tools that hand back finished files — PDF, docx, PPTX, chart PNG, SRT subtitles, invoices, screenshots — from one hosted endpoint. Free quota, no API key to start.
npm i netcafe-ai-tools zod
import { generateText } from 'ai';
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { netcafeTools } from 'netcafe-ai-tools';
const { text } = await generateText({
model: openai('gpt-4o-mini'),
tools: netcafeTools(), // anonymous free quota
// tools: netcafeTools({ apiKey: 'sk-...' }), // unlimited, billed to you
maxSteps: 5,
prompt: 'Turn this release note into a PDF and a shareable chart of the download counts.',
});
Every tool returns a hosted file URL (file_url / pdf_url / image_url) the model can hand back.
33 curated tools.
Live data (new in 0.2): get_weather, get_air_quality, exchange_rate, stock_quote (China A-shares/HK/US), ip_lookup,
china_reachability (test any URL from a real mainland-China network — status, latency, China DNS),
domain_check (RDAP), ssl_check.
Chinese almanac (new in 0.2): lunar_calendar, bazi_chart (八字排盘), huangli (宜忌),
pick_lucky_days (择吉日), cn_holiday (法定节假日/调休). Pure deterministic computation — millisecond responses, never hallucinated.
Utilities: timezone_convert, unit_convert, pinyin_convert.
Files & artifacts: web_search, md_to_pdf, md_to_docx, md_to_pptx, screenshot_url,
render_diagram, make_chart, make_qr, audio_to_srt, transcribe_audio, convert_to_pdf,
make_invoice, meeting_minutes, make_dockerfile, sql_from_description, compare_models,
model_costs.
Want a subset? netcafeTools({ only: ['md_to_pdf', 'make_chart'] }).
The full 95-tool catalog: https://ainetcafe.com/tools
{ description, parameters, execute }, so they
work with AI SDK 4 and 5. zod is the only peer dependency.compare_models and model_costs return real metered per-call cost, not list prices —
the cost dataset is published CC BY 4.0 at https://ainetcafe.com/costs.MIT.
FAQs
Vercel AI SDK tools that return finished files: PDF, docx, charts, subtitles, invoices, screenshots — one hosted endpoint, free quota, no API key to start.
We found that netcafe-ai-tools demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.

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