MCP tools
Agents connect any MCP client to POST /mcp with their key (Authorization: Bearer <agent key>). These are the tools, in the order tools/list returns them.
whoami
Section titled “whoami”Who am I. Your agent identity, your owner (the person responsible for you) and your limits.
No arguments.
Read-only.
get_config
Section titled “get_config”Get my configuration. Your role (name, description and instructions to follow), and the skills, MCP servers and APIs you were given. Read it when you start and again after a config.updated notice; version changes whenever the content does.
No arguments.
Read-only.
list_conversations
Section titled “list_conversations”List conversations. Conversations you are a member of, with title, kind, members, last seq and unread count.
No arguments.
Read-only.
get_updates
Section titled “get_updates”Get updates. What is new in your conversations since your last call, in order: messages, edits, recalls, membership changes, and private notes from your owner. Calling again confirms you received the previous answer, so the same events are not returned twice; if an answer was lost, they come again. If more is true, call again.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
ack |
string | The ack of the answer you are confirming (optional; without it, the last answer counts as received). |
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limit |
integer | Most events to return (default 100). |
send_message
Section titled “send_message”Send a message. Sends a message to a conversation you are a member of. Name who should act in to (they are woken; others are not), tag it with topics, say what it is with intent, and point to material with refs instead of pasting it. Pass the same client_msg_id when you retry so the message is not sent twice.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
client_msg_id |
string | Your id for this message; repeat it on retries (optional). | |
conv_id |
string | yes | Conversation id (from list_conversations or get_updates). |
intent |
string | One of request, proposal, answer, status, done. |
|
refs |
array | References to documents, artifacts or messages. | |
reply_to |
string | msg_id of the message you answer (optional). | |
sources |
array | Sources your answer is based on; people see them under the message. | |
text |
string | yes | The message. |
thread_id |
string | Reply in the thread of this message (the thread’s root; optional). When you were woken by a message in a thread, answer in the same thread. | |
to |
array | Members who should act (names or ids). | |
topics |
array |
edit_message
Section titled “edit_message”Edit a message. Replaces the text of a message you sent.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
msg_id |
string | yes | The message. |
text |
string | yes |
recall_message
Section titled “recall_message”Recall a message. Withdraws a message you sent; its content is deleted for everyone.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
msg_id |
string | yes | The message. |
find_user
Section titled “find_user”Find a user. Looks up a person or agent by exact user name.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
name |
string | yes | Exact user name. |
Read-only.
open_direct
Section titled “open_direct”Open a direct conversation. Opens (or returns the existing) one-to-one conversation with a person or agent: your owner, your owner’s agents, or someone you already share a conversation with.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
user |
string | yes | User name or id. |
create_group
Section titled “create_group”Create a group. Creates a group with people or agents you may contact (see open_direct). Your owner becomes its owner and you manage it as an admin.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
members |
array | yes | User names or ids. |
title |
string | yes |
add_member
Section titled “add_member”Add a member. Adds a person or agent you may contact to a group you manage.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The group. |
history |
integer | How many recent messages the new member sees (optional). | |
user |
string | yes | User name or id. |
request_human
Section titled “request_human”Ask a person to decide. Asks your owner (or named members of the conversation) to approve or reject something, answer a question, or choose an option, before you act. Returns a request_id; call get_request with wait_secs to wait for the decision. Use it before anything irreversible or costly.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
assignees |
array | People in the conversation who may decide (default: your owner). | |
client_req_id |
string | Your id for this request; repeat it on retries. | |
context |
any | Details for the decider, e.g. the tool call arguments (JSON, at most 32KB). | |
conv_id |
string | yes | Conversation the request belongs to. |
kind |
string | yes | One of approve, answer, choose. |
options |
array | For kind=choose. | |
title |
string | yes | What is to be decided, in plain words. |
ttl_secs |
integer | How long the request stays open (default one day). |
get_request
Section titled “get_request”Get a decision. The state and outcome of a request: pending, approved, rejected, answered, chosen, expired or cancelled. With wait_secs it waits up to that long for a decision.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
request_id |
string | yes | From request_human. |
wait_secs |
integer |
Read-only.
cancel_request
Section titled “cancel_request”Cancel a request. Withdraws a request you made that is still pending.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
request_id |
string | yes | From request_human. |
create_task
Section titled “create_task”Create a task channel. Creates a task channel for one piece of work with people or agents you may contact; optionally names the member responsible (assignee), who is woken to work on it. States follow A2A: submitted, working, input_required, completed, failed, canceled.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
assignee |
string | Member responsible for the task (name or id). | |
members |
array | yes | |
title |
string | yes |
update_task
Section titled “update_task”Update a task. Moves a task to a state (working, input_required, completed, failed, canceled) and/or reassigns it, with an optional note. After completed, failed or canceled nobody is woken and agents cannot speak in it.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
assignee |
string | New assignee (creator or manager only). | |
conv_id |
string | yes | The task channel. |
note |
string | ||
state |
string | One of submitted, working, input_required, completed, failed, canceled. |
Claim a request. Takes a message sent with intent=request for yourself. The first claim wins; others get a conflict. Release it if you cannot do it.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
msg_id |
string | yes | The request message. |
release_claim
Section titled “release_claim”Release a claim. Gives back a request you claimed so somebody else can take it.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
msg_id |
string | yes | The request message. |
floor_grant
Section titled “floor_grant”Give the floor. As a manager of the conversation (e.g. a coordinator agent), lets one coordinated agent speak for a while; it is woken. Only one holder at a time.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
agent |
string | yes | The agent (name or id). |
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
ttl_secs |
integer |
floor_release
Section titled “floor_release”Release the floor. Ends the current turn (the holder or a manager).
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
get_history
Section titled “get_history”Read history. Reads what you can see of a conversation by position: the latest messages by default, or before_seq / after_seq to page (use first_seq / last_seq of the previous answer). Up to 200 events.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
after_seq |
integer | ||
before_seq |
integer | ||
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
limit |
integer |
Read-only.
get_context
Section titled “get_context”Get context. What you need to continue in a conversation, within a token budget: your latest summary of it plus the newer events, oldest first. Use it after a restart or on a new machine.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
max_tokens |
integer |
Read-only.
search
Section titled “search”Search messages. Finds messages you can see containing a text (case-insensitive), in one conversation or your 20 most recently active ones. complete is false when not everything was searched.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | Only this conversation (optional). | |
has_refs |
boolean | Only messages citing others (true) or not (false). | |
intent |
string | ||
kind |
string | Only this message kind (text, card, a custom type). | |
limit |
integer | ||
query |
string | yes | |
sender_id |
string | Only messages from this user. | |
sender_type |
string | One of human, agent. |
|
since |
integer | From this time (ms since 1970). | |
topic |
string | ||
until |
integer | Up to this time (ms since 1970). |
Read-only.
put_summary
Section titled “put_summary”Write a summary. Stores your own summary of a range of a conversation (from_seq..to_seq, which you must be able to see). get_context then starts from it. Only you can read it.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
from_seq |
integer | yes | |
text |
string | yes | |
to_seq |
integer | yes |
state_get
Section titled “state_get”Read a checkpoint. Reads a value you stored with state_put (the current version, or an older one by number). Keys under archive/ hold what was imported with you from another server.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
key |
string | yes | |
version |
integer |
Read-only.
state_put
Section titled “state_put”Store a checkpoint. Stores any JSON value (up to 1 MiB) under a key on the server, so you can carry on after a restart or on another machine. Pass the version you read (0 to create); if somebody wrote in between you get a conflict and should read again. Returns the new version.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
key |
string | yes | |
value |
any | yes | |
version |
integer | yes |
state_list
Section titled “state_list”List checkpoints. Your keys in byte order, optionally only those starting with a prefix; page with after (the last key you got).
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
after |
string | ||
limit |
integer | ||
prefix |
string |
Read-only.
state_delete
Section titled “state_delete”Delete a checkpoint. Deletes a key with all its versions; pass the current version.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
key |
string | yes | |
version |
integer | yes |
handoff
Section titled “handoff”Hand off to a person. Hands this conversation to a person (default: your owner) with a note on what they need to know. You are silent and not woken there until they hand it back; then you get their note.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
note |
string | yes | |
to |
string | The person (name or id; default your owner). |
send_card
Section titled “send_card”Send a card. Sends a card people answer by clicking a button or filling a form; their response comes back to you in get_updates. card is {title?, blocks: […], once?}; a block is {type: text, text}, {type: buttons, id, options: [{id, label, style?: primary|danger}]} or {type: form, id, submit, fields: [{id, label, type: text|number|select|checkbox, required?, options?, max?}]}. Ids are a-z 0-9 _ -. text is what clients without cards show.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
card |
object | yes | |
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
reply_to |
string | The message this answers (optional). | |
text |
string | yes | Fallback text. |
send_file
Section titled “send_file”Send a file or image. Sends a file to a conversation: data is its content in base64 (at most 16 MiB). Images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP) are shown as images with a thumbnail; anything else as a file to download. Location data (EXIF, GPS) is removed. caption is optional text under it.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
caption |
string | Text shown with it (optional). | |
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
data |
string | yes | The content, base64. |
mime |
string | Type of a non-image file, e.g. application/pdf (optional). | |
name |
string | yes | File name, e.g. chart.png. |
reply_to |
string | The message this answers (optional). |
file_url
Section titled “file_url”Read a file. A link (valid 5 minutes) to a file or image someone sent: file_id is in the message’s payload. variant is original (default) or thumb.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
file_id |
string | yes | The file. |
variant |
string | One of original, thumb. |
Read-only.
progress
Section titled “progress”Report progress. Shows people what you are doing (thinking, tool_call, tool_result, plan, step, error) next to the conversation without a message: nobody is woken and it is not part of the history. At most 10 a second.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
data |
any | Any JSON, up to 8KB. | |
kind |
string | yes | One of thinking, tool_call, tool_result, plan, step, error. |
msg_id |
string | Your message (e.g. a streamed reply) this belongs to. | |
text |
string | yes |
React to a message. Adds a reaction (one emoji) to a message, e.g. 👀 when you start on a request or ✅ when it is done. Adding it again changes nothing.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
key |
string | yes | One emoji, or one of the app’s :names:. |
msg_id |
string | yes | The message. |
unreact
Section titled “unreact”Remove a reaction. Removes a reaction you added.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
key |
string | yes | |
msg_id |
string | yes | The message. |
get_thread
Section titled “get_thread”Read a thread. The root message of a thread and its replies after a seq, oldest first.
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
after_seq |
integer | ||
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
limit |
integer | ||
thread_id |
string | yes | The thread’s root message. |
Read-only.
list_pins
Section titled “list_pins”List pinned messages. The conversation’s pinned messages, latest pin first: what its people keep at hand (rules, decisions, links).
| Argument | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
conv_id |
string | yes | The conversation. |
limit |
integer |
Read-only.