docs(contributing): keep MCP tool schemas flat — provider conversion eats composition keywords - #547
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…sion eats composition keywords Codified from the #544 field failure: schedule was a oneOf of const-branches, several engines' MCP-to-provider converters flattened it, and models guessed shapes forever. The rule, the coercion posture, and the errors-must-teach posture now live next to the driver SPI guidance so the next tool surface doesn't relearn it in production. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change adds guidance for keeping MCP tool schemas compatible with provider conversion, but the referenced regression test does not yet guard against format. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness and a follow-up to extend that test so the documented rule is enforced. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Around line 129-137: Extend the schema regression assertion in the relevant
test in agents-proxy.test.ts to also reject the serialized schema keyword
“format”, matching the contributor rule alongside the existing oneOf, anyOf,
allOf, and const checks.
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| - **Never use `oneOf`, `anyOf`, `allOf`, `const`, or `format` in a tool `inputSchema`.** Advertise | ||
| one flat object; put per-variant rules in `description`s. `enum` on plain strings is fine. | ||
| - **Coerce before you reject.** Models stringify nested objects, shorten enum values, and vary | ||
| case. If an input has one obvious meaning, accept it and normalize on the wire. | ||
| - **Errors must teach.** When you refuse an input, the message states the supported shapes with a | ||
| literal example the model can copy. "Invalid discriminator value" burns a turn; an example | ||
| fixes the next call. | ||
| - A schema test should assert the tool surface stays flat | ||
| (see `server/drivers/agents-proxy.test.ts` — it regexp-guards the serialized schema). |
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Extend the schema regression test to cover format.
The contributor rule in Lines [129-130] forbids format, but the referenced test only rejects "oneOf", "anyOf", "allOf", and "const". A contributor can add format and still pass the required schema test.
Update server/drivers/agents-proxy.test.ts:
Proposed test update
- expect(JSON.stringify(create.inputSchema)).not.toMatch(/"oneOf"|"anyOf"|"allOf"|"const"/);
+ expect(JSON.stringify(create.inputSchema)).not.toMatch(/"oneOf"|"anyOf"|"allOf"|"const"|"format"/);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md` around lines 129 - 137, Extend the schema regression
assertion in the relevant test in agents-proxy.test.ts to also reject the
serialized schema keyword “format”, matching the contributor rule alongside the
existing oneOf, anyOf, allOf, and const checks.
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What changed
A new MCP tool schemas section in CONTRIBUTING.md, between the driver SPI guidance and Platform rules:
oneOf/anyOf/allOf/const/formatin a toolinputSchema— flat object + description-enforced rules (stringenumis fine)server/drivers/agents-proxy.test.ts)Why
Follow-up to #544, as suggested in its review notes: the routine-proposal field failure happened because engines' MCP-to-provider schema converters flatten or drop composition keywords, and the model never saw the branches. The rule belongs in CONTRIBUTING so the next tool surface doesn't relearn it in production.
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