mcp: size tool responses for context-limited clients#281
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This addresses some rough edges when using the MCP. Current payloads are quite big, i.e. get_summary is 31.5 KB. This change brings it down to 8.2KB. Useful when using MCP in AI because responses are too big, and will either eats lots of tokens or cause AI to fight against it |
Make get_summary return compact aggregates (status counts, per architecture counts, known issues and failed platforms) with the full payload behind detail=true, drop the default list page size to 20, and add a fields parameter to the list tools, including list_nodes, so callers can project entries to only the keys they need. Signed-off-by: Ben Copeland <ben.copeland@linaro.org>
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thanks, seem reasonable to have such limits |
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Make get_summary return compact aggregates (status counts, per architecture counts, known issues and failed platforms) with the full payload behind detail=true, drop the default list page size to 20, and add a fields parameter to the list tools, including list_nodes, so callers can project entries to only the keys they need.