Package com.xebialabs.xlrelease.mcp.annotation

Annotation Interface McpTool

@Target({METHOD,ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface McpTool

Marks a method as an MCP tool, read by McpToolSpecifications.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static @interface	McpTool.McpAnnotations	MCP behaviour hints.
static @interface	McpTool.McpPresentation	How a UI should present this tool's execution as a user-facing activity step ("Creating template \"X\"" instead of manage_template).

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element	Description
String	description	What the tool does and when to use it — the model's main tool-selection signal.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element	Description
McpTool.McpAnnotations	annotations	Behavioural hints surfaced in tools/list.
String	name	Tool name advertised to clients; falls back to the method name when blank.
McpTool.McpPresentation	presentation	UI presentation hints, emitted as Tool._meta["ai.digital/presentation"].
String	title	Human-readable display title (MCP Tool.title); clients prefer it over the name.

Element Details

name

String name

Tool name advertised to clients; falls back to the method name when blank.

Default:

""

title

String title

Human-readable display title (MCP Tool.title); clients prefer it over the name.

Default:

""

description

String description

What the tool does and when to use it — the model's main tool-selection signal.

annotations

McpTool.McpAnnotations annotations

Behavioural hints surfaced in tools/list.

Default:

@com.xebialabs.xlrelease.mcp.annotation.McpTool.McpAnnotations

presentation

McpTool.McpPresentation presentation

UI presentation hints, emitted as Tool._meta["ai.digital/presentation"].

Default:

@com.xebialabs.xlrelease.mcp.annotation.McpTool.McpPresentation