What the Data for This Category Looks Like
Cosmetics category financial report data primarily comes from public annual and quarterly performance announcements released by brands, as well as third-party public e-commerce sales monitoring data. Data update schedules follow these rules: quarterly announcements are updated within 30 days after the end of each quarter, annual announcements are disclosed before April of the following year, and real-time e-commerce sales data can be synced daily. Most documents are presented as structured tables, containing fields such as revenue categories, individual product category revenue amounts, channel types, marketing investment amounts, R&D investment amounts, and total SKUs. Units are mostly Chinese Yuan; cross-border brands will also mark corresponding data denominated in US dollars.
Constraints Imposed on Tool Calling and Plugins by These Data Characteristics
The multi-data-source nature requires tool calling to connect to both structured announcement parsing interfaces and e-commerce sales APIs, and support configuring pull frequencies for different data sources. The fixed update cycle of quarterly announcements requires tools to pre-set scheduled trigger tasks to avoid delays from manual pulling. The order and naming of table fields vary across different brands’ financial reports, so tool calling must support custom field mapping rules to adapt to the document structures of different brands. The presence of multiple valuation units requires plugins to build in exchange rate conversion logic to automatically align to a unified valuation unit. Pulling real-time e-commerce data requires configuring reasonable interface call thresholds to avoid exceeding call limits.
How to Set Configurations
| Configuration Item | Recommended Value | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
PARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS | 600 seconds | Cosmetics financial report PDFs usually contain multiple pages of structured tables and long text descriptions; 600 seconds covers the complete parsing process |
MCP_SERVER_DEPLOY_TYPE | remote | Cosmetics financial report data is scattered across public announcements and e-commerce APIs; an independent MCP service must be deployed to connect to multiple types of data sources, adapting to the deployment requirements of version 4.9.6 |
SYNC_TASK_CRON_EXPRESSION | 0 0 2 * * * | Quarterly announcements are usually disclosed within 30 days after the end of the quarter; syncing at 2 AM daily allows timely access to the latest data |
TOOL_CALL_MAX_RETRIES | 2 | Financial report data interface calls may fail due to network fluctuations; 2 retries ensure success rates while avoiding resource waste |
TOKEN_CALCULATION_STRATEGY | openai_compatible | Adapts to token counting rules of mainstream large models, meeting common community token calculation needs |
ALLOWED_LLM_MODELS | gpt-4o, gemini-pro | Covers mainstream large models, meeting common community model call needs |
TOOL_KNOWLEDGE_BASE_ENABLE | true | Both industry general data from the knowledge base and brand-specific financial report data from tools must be called to improve analysis accuracy |
The parameter values provided on this page are common recommended starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material form, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require case-by-case analysis, and it is recommended to test on your own samples before finalizing settings.
Three Common Mistakes
- Symptom: Tool calls return a
429 Too Many Requestserror. Cause: No reasonable sync interval and batch call thresholds are configured; pulling financial report data multiple times in a short period triggers interface rate limiting. - Symptom: Fields are empty in tool call results. Cause: No custom field mapping rules are configured, and the tool does not adapt to differences in field naming across different brands’ financial report tables, leading to failure to correctly extract target data.
- Symptom: Knowledge base search and tool calls cannot be triggered simultaneously after configuration. Cause: The
TOOL_KNOWLEDGE_BASE_ENABLEconfiguration item is not enabled, or the node order of the tool flow is incorrectly configured, with the tool call node not placed after the knowledge base recall node.
How to Confirm Configurations Are Set Correctly
- Manually trigger a tool call, check if the returned results include the target financial report fields configured, and verify that field names and units meet expectations.
- Check the logs of the scheduled sync task to confirm whether it triggers on time according to the configured Cron expression, and that there are no records of parsing timeouts or interface call failures.
- Test linked calls across multiple data sources to confirm that both knowledge base data and financial report data returned by tools can be integrated into the analysis results.
- Check token consumption records to confirm that the token calculation rules follow the configured strategy, with no abnormal counting deviations.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.