Books
Your agent misremembers book details and ISBNs; this returns real bibliographic data from Open Library.
Knowledge & Reference
Searches for books and retrieves metadata including title, author, ISBN, publisher, subjects, and descriptions. Use this to look up a book by title or keyword, find books by a specific author, or get full bibliographic details for a known edition by ISBN.
Use when
You need accurate book facts, the right edition, an ISBN, or an author's works instead of guessing from memory.
Not for
Reading or borrowing full book text, buying or pricing books, author biographies or photos, reviews, ratings, or bestseller lists.
What you can do
Each is a sub-skill of Books; the router picks the right one for your request.
What you get back
information
Returns clean book records (titles, authors, years, ISBNs, subjects, cover image links). Not a downloadable file and not the full text of any book.
When it checks with you first
The request names a specific book by an exact title, and it is unclear whether to search or to fetch its full record.
Run it
Skills run through one gateway with your Faro token. Hand it an intent in plain language; Faro routes to the right sub-skill, runs it, and bills per call.
curl -X POST "https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/books/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FARO_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"intent":{"prompt":"Find books by Cormac McCarthy"}}'Example requests
- ›Find books by Cormac McCarthy
- ›What is 1984 about?
- ›What book is ISBN 9780451526538?