fac-observe

name	fac-observe
description	Look around in Factorio — entities near a position (or near you), plus production telemetry and alerts. Your primary perception in the factory; observe before building or when an action reports a deviation.
args	{"x":"optional number — center of the observation; omit (with y) to observe around your character","y":"optional number — see x","radius":"optional number (default 15, max 50) — tiles around the center"}

fac-observe

The situational read: entities in range, production flows, alerts. Composes the bridge's /status, /observe and /telemetry into one call.

Behavior

• Lists entities within radius of the center — name, position, facing, status, warnings, contents. Same-name swarms (belt runs, poles) are summarized with a count and extent.
• Observing also updates the bridge's observation cache, which is what deviation classification compares against — observe first, act second.
• Appends production telemetry (per-item flows over the last minute) and any recent alerts.
• Resource patches in range are included as summary lines — e.g. "iron-ore patch (~608 tiles, ~436829 units) @ (-39, -22)" (position is the patch centroid). Use fac-nearest when no patch is in range.
• Water and cliffs are terrain, not entities: an empty listing does not guarantee buildable ground.

{"thought": "what is around the furnace area?", "tool": "fac-observe", "args": {"x": 48, "y": 62, "radius": 10}}