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archstone MCP Server

Compile your own business capabilities from declarative YAML and serve them as MCP tools.

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Published as @archstone/cli on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

No primitive for tracking LLM spend on a bound capability endpoint

Problem

Any business that binds a capability to a paid LLM-backed endpoint (e.g. an embedded-agent surface built with @archstone/agent, or an MCP tool whose connector calls out to a paid model) needs to answer "how much am I spending, per period" — and Archstone has no primitive for this today.

Confirmed absent from:

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 1 comment

tools()/execute() id mismatch: sanitized tool name isn't accepted back by executeCapability()

Bug

buildToolDefs() (packages/agent/src/tools.ts) names every emitted tool via toolName(t.id) — dot→underscore, e.g. tourism.search → tourism_search — for all four supported formats: anthropic, openai, gemini, and json-schema. This isn't format-specific; it's the shared naming path all four switch branches route through.

executeCapability() (packages/agent/src/execute.ts) resolves the capability via registry.getCapability(capabilityId), which looks it up in `Re

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 1 comment

verify derives status from a live fingerprint and then discards it — --json consumers cannot see what the backend now answers

Why

archstone verify --json exists so that a consumer does not have to read human output. ADD-20 made binding health machine-readable for exactly that reason: an operator or a CI job should not be parsing emoji or prose to learn a status.

That argument is only half-applied. runVerify computes a live fingerprint for a binding, compares it against the recorded one, and derives ToolVerification.status from it — then d

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

@archstone/agent: resourceSchema() and extract(), the pair to tools()/execute()

The consumer-facing half of ADR-0011. @archstone/agent already gives an embedder the invocation direction: tools(format) for the tool definitions, execute() for the fail-closed call. The extraction direction gets the symmetric pair — the schema you hand the model, and the boundary you pass its answer through.

Shape (names to settle in review):

archstone.resourceSchema("tourism.Stay", "anthropic")   // the s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Archstone-Romania/archstone/issues/11) · 2026-08-29 · closed · 0 comments

### Semantic type's description overwrites the field's authored description

`fieldJsonSchema` in `packages/emitter-support/src/lowering.ts` builds the field's own
description into `base`, then spreads the semantic type's schema **over** it:

```ts
const base = f.description ? { description: f.description } : {};
…
return { ...base, ...semanticJsonSchema(f.type.semantic, f.type.values) };

Wherever a semantic type's schema carries a description, the generic text wins and the manifest's is discarded. Measured on the shipped tourism resource:
Authore

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · closed · 0 comments

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