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Describe eligible API operations as individual MCP tools, with shared schemas, scopes, approvals, and saved continuation. Keep dashboard-only operations explicit: a domain-write scope does not add a domain-purchase MCP tool. Remove retired sandbox guidance from the agent pages. Replace the obsolete sandbox eval with the existing operation-approval behavior: 24 hours and resume_execution using the same executionId.

Current main is integrated, including Blume 2.2.6, branding, and link repairs. The full required local docs suite passes with Bun 1.3.11 and Node 26. The agent-backed retrieval eval itself was not run.

Release hold: the latest published @spacefast/mcp and spacefast packages are 0.8.0. Executing that package's tool-catalog function still returns search and execute, rather than the individual API-operation catalog. Verify a release containing operation tools before publishing guidance that applies to both hosted and local clients. Hosted production rollout was not checked.

MCP no longer has an execute sandbox. Every API operation an agent may
call is its own tool named by its operationId, and a handful of product
tools (publish, operation_status, the show_space_* views, show_domains,
choose_space, resume_execution, cli_login) sit on top of that catalog.

Rewrite the MCP server reference for that surface: the current default
scopes, per-view Space tools, uploadId publishing, operation_status url,
the 24-hour approval window, and documentation through searchDocs. Update
the agents overview, skills routing table, CLI agents page, and the
client setup pages that told agents to verify through execute.

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2 potential issues found:

  • Still applies at 2dd6000: docs say local sf mcp / npx -y spacefast mcp expose each eligible API operation as its own tool, but published 0.8.0 (npm latest) still registers search and execute. Local users following the new searchDocs verify steps would hit a failure.
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  • cursor.mdx still says the plugin lets Cursor call "every API operation as its own tool", the over-broad claim commit 2dd6000 removed from index.mdx and mcp-server.mdx.
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  • The execute-limits eval in evals.yaml still asks about the MCP execute sandbox limits (30 seconds, 64 MiB, no fetch), which this PR removes from /agents/mcp-server. The next eval run will fail or reward stale answers; it isn't covered by test:docs. (fixed by commit 169f977)
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  • Summary: Local MCP docs ahead of published 0.8.0 tools
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    {
      "summary": "Local MCP docs ahead of published 0.8.0 tools",
      "findings": [
        {
          "fix": "Hold the merge until a release with operation tools is on npm `latest`. If it has to merge first, add a note on mcp-server.mdx and in the local-client verify steps that local `sf mcp` before <version> still exposes `search` and `execute`, and that updating the CLI gets operation tools.",
          "line": 14,
          "path": "content/agents/mcp-server.mdx",
          "issue": "Still applies at 2dd6000. The page says both runtimes expose each eligible API operation as its own tool, and gives `sf mcp` / `npx -y spacefast mcp` as the local command. npm `latest` for both `spacefast` and `@spacefast/mcp` is still 0.8.0, and `@spacefast/mcp@0.8.0` `dist/server.js` registers the live `search` (\"Spacefast API Search\") and `execute` (\"Spacefast API Code Runner\") tools, not per-operation tools. Anyone using `sf setup agent --local`, `sf mcp`, or `npx -y spacefast mcp` therefore gets search/execute. This PR removes every explanation of those tools. The new \"Verify it works\" steps (claude-code, codex, cursor, other-clients) tell the agent to call `searchDocs` directly, which fails on a local install. Hosted and the default `sf mcp proxy` lane are unaffected.",
          "title": "Local runtime docs describe tools the published 0.8.0 server doesn't have",
          "severity": "bug"
        },
        {
          "fix": "Change it to match the new wording, e.g. \"call each API operation exposed through MCP as its own tool\".",
          "line": 6,
          "path": "content/agents/cursor.mdx",
          "issue": "The latest commit narrows the claim to \"eligible\" operations on index.mdx and mcp-server.mdx, because dashboard-only operations (domain purchase, registration, contacts, plan codes) and space-key operations have no tool. cursor.mdx, also changed in this PR, still says the plugin lets Cursor \"call every API operation as its own tool\", which is the over-broad claim this commit was meant to remove.",
          "title": "Cursor page still says every API operation is a tool",
          "severity": "nit"
        }
      ]
    }

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The agent documentation now describes MCP API operations as direct tools instead of operations invoked through execute. It updates tool scopes, publishing and polling inputs, approval behavior, Space views, and agent instructions.

Changes: Direct MCP Tool Documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime, scopes, and tool catalog
content/agents/mcp-server.mdx, content/agents/index.mdx
The MCP reference describes operation-specific tools, runtime differences, scopes, on-demand tool loading, and the 24,000-character result cap. The agent index reflects the updated tool catalog.
Operation inputs and results
content/agents/mcp-server.mdx
The reference documents publish sources and polling handles, operation_status inputs, separate show_space_* tools, and direct documentation tools.
Sensitive-call approvals
content/agents/mcp-server.mdx, content/agents/claude-code.mdx, content/agents/codex.mdx
The MCP reference describes approval pauses, decisions, and resumption. Agent guidance links to the approvals documentation.
Agent instructions for direct tools
content/agents/claude-code.mdx, content/agents/codex.mdx, content/agents/cursor.mdx, content/agents/other-clients.mdx, content/agents/skills.mdx, content/cli/agents.mdx
Agent instructions replace execute-based operation discovery with direct tool calls and update tool selection guidance. The CLI reference removes its execute sandbox reference.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: alexanderaidun-a8c

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Readers may expect agents to perform dashboard actions that have no MCP tool. Clarify the documentation before merging, or accept this bounded documentation risk.

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Review comments at @content/agents/mcp-server.mdx:
- Line 14: Qualify the catalog claims in the MCP server documentation so they
refer only to Spacefast API operations exposed through MCP, and limit the
dashboard claim to actions the server exposes. Preserve the `domains:write`
scope description while clarifying that it does not provide a domain-purchase
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## Two runtimes, one tool catalog

The same server ships in two runtimes. Both register the same five tools. The difference is the filesystem.
The same server ships in two runtimes. Both expose every Spacefast API operation as its own tool. The difference is the filesystem.

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🟡 Bug · Local runtime docs describe tools the published 0.8.0 server doesn't have

This line says both runtimes expose every API operation as its own tool, and line 19 gives sf mcp / npx -y spacefast mcp as the local command. npm latest for spacefast and @spacefast/mcp is 0.8.0, and @spacefast/mcp@0.8.0 dist/server.js still registers search and execute rather than per-operation tools.

Local users on sf setup agent --local, sf mcp or npx -y spacefast mcp get search/execute. The new "Verify it works" steps (claude-code, codex, cursor, other-clients) tell them to call searchDocs, which fails on a local install. The resume table, local file access and search_connector_tools notes also describe a server they aren't running.

The PR description already notes the release hold. Hold the merge until a release with operation tools is on npm latest, or add a version note here and in the local-client verify steps.

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The Spacefast plugin lets Cursor publish your project and call API operations through `execute`, within the permissions you approved. Some actions remain reserved for a signed-in person.
The Spacefast plugin lets Cursor publish your project and call every API operation as its own tool, within the permissions you approved. Some actions remain reserved for a signed-in person.

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⚪️ Nit · Cursor page still says every API operation is a tool

The latest commit narrows the claim to "eligible" operations on index.mdx and mcp-server.mdx, since dashboard-only operations (domain purchase, registration, contacts, plan codes) and space-key operations have no tool. This line still says every API operation is its own tool. Change it to e.g. "call each API operation exposed through MCP as its own tool".

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batuhan added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2026
Brings in the parts of #127, #125, #114, #111, #109, #105, #103, #97, #88,
#87, #84 and #54 that still match shipped behavior, checked against the
product source, with these corrections:

- Login and permissions: the Agent access copy now quotes the access
  profile text, the Domain and pages-shared-with-you profiles are listed,
  and the login receipt is documented on stdout.
- Retention: a deleted team can be restored for 30 days and keeps its
  records after that. Expired drafts, deleted versions and version history
  are kept. The Personal retained-version cap is gone.
- Serving defaults: the .html redirects answer only GET and HEAD, and
  `index: false` stops inference instead of hiding a root index.html.
- Spaces and publish: slug reservations, config file precedence, Stats
  columns, and when the claim message and claim.key print.
- MCP: `uploadId`, `operation_status` taking `url`, the default-scope
  exclusions, `_meta["spacefast/requiredScopes"]`, the 24-hour approval
  wait, and an eval for it instead of the retired execute sandbox.
- Errors: a blocked Space create or claim is `quota_exceeded`. The
  retired `deploy_` and `build_minutes_quota_exceeded` rows are gone.
- CLI: `--team` is `-T` everywhere in the authored pages.
- Undeployed hosts answer 404 with X-Spacefast-Undeployed. Functions and
  Zero client bundles are 24 MiB. Domain claims don't expire.

#103's hand-edited generated/errors pages are left out; the next snapshot
export produces them.

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Main already moved MCP to operation tools in #101. The details main still lacked are folded into #132: uploadId, operation_status taking url, the default-scope exclusions, _meta["spacefast/requiredScopes"], the 24-hour approval wait, and the eval that replaces execute-limits.

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