# archstone MCP Server

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

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## Status

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## Connect

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:
- RFC-0008 (`internal/docs/rfc/0008-embedded-agent-emitters.md`) — no mention
  of cost/spend/budget tracking as a concern of the embedded-agent surface.
- Every shipped pack

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Archstone-Romania/archstone/issues/2) · 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](https://github.com/Archstone-Romania/archstone/issues/1) · 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](https://github.com/Archstone-Romania/archstone/blob/main/docs/) 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](https://github.com/Archstone-Romania/archstone/issues/18) · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

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

The consumer-facing half of [ADR-0011](docs/adr/0011-undeclared-model-output-never-reaches-a-business-system.md).
`@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):

```ts
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](https://github.com/Archstone-Romania/archstone/issues/8) · 2026-08-29 · closed · 0 comments

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