feat(mcp): add accurate tool annotations and update biome schema

[ashutoshb206]

What this changes

Adds explicit destructive and idempotent behavioral annotations to MCP tools across workspace.ts, org.ts, docs.ts, issues.ts, and planning.ts by extending ToolConfig in packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts (MCP-001). Also updates biome.json schema version to 2.5.7 and cleans up test lint warnings.

Why

Completes MCP-001 from docs/open-source-readiness.md so connected MCP clients receive accurate safety hints (destructiveHint, idempotentHint) for destructive and idempotent write operations.

How you know it works

• Ran bun run check-comments (0 disallowed comments).
• Ran bun run check-bun-imports (0 Bun built-ins in shipped server code).
• Ran bun run check-deps (6 overridden packages resolved).
• Ran bun run typecheck across all monorepo packages (@orbit/shared, @orbit/db, @orbit/core, @orbit/services, @orbit/mcp-server, @orbit/web).
• Ran bun test packages/db/tests/check-source-bytes.test.ts (9/9 tests passing).
• Ran biome check . (0 errors, 0 warnings).

Checklist

• bun run verify is green, all four checks
• Tests added or updated, and they fail without the change
• No comments added to code, and no em-dash characters anywhere
• No any, no non-null assertions
• External input is parsed with a Zod schema from @orbit/shared
• Authorization is enforced on the server through packages/shared/src/policy, not only in the UI
• Docs updated if behaviour, configuration or setup changed

Anything reviewers should know

Write tools default idempotentHint to readOnly || (idempotent ?? false) and destructiveHint to destructive ?? false. Read tools automatically default idempotentHint to true.

Greptile Summary

The PR adds configurable MCP safety annotations and explicitly classifies destructive and non-destructive operations while removing inaccurate idempotency claims from document writes.

• Extends ToolConfig and maps its safety fields into MCP annotations.
• Correctly marks deletion, removal, and archival tools as destructive.
• Removes retry-safe annotations from document operations with observable repeated side effects.
• Avoids duplicate relation activity when conflict handling inserts no relation.
• Updates the Biome schema reference and readiness documentation.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts	Adds configurable MCP annotation fields with safe defaults; the two previous default-classification findings are resolved.
packages/mcp-server/src/tools/docs.ts	Corrects destructive classifications and removes the inaccurate idempotency claims identified in prior review threads.
packages/mcp-server/src/tools/taxonomy.ts	Explicitly marks label and workflow-state deletion as destructive, resolving the previously reported omissions.
packages/core/src/work/issue-service.ts	Suppresses relation activity when conflict handling inserts no rows, preventing duplicate activity on identical retries.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The MCP server now exposes operation metadata for destructive, idempotent, and open-world behavior. Relation activity logging now records only successful relation inserts. The change also updates the Biome schema reference, a database test fixture, and release-readiness status.

Changes

MCP tool annotation metadata

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Annotation configuration and mapping packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts	ToolConfig supports behavior flags. defineTool maps them to MCP annotations with updated defaults.
Tool metadata declarations packages/mcp-server/src/tools/*.ts	Document, issue, organization, planning, workspace, administration, and taxonomy tools now declare destructive or idempotent behavior. The delete_doc_collection description now explains collection-link removal.

Issue relation activity handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional relation activity logging packages/core/src/work/issue-service.ts	setRelation appends relation activity only when the relation insert creates rows.

Configuration and test maintenance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration, test, and release-status updates biome.json, packages/db/tests/check-source-bytes.test.ts, docs/open-source-readiness.md	The Biome schema reference uses version 2.5.7. The source-bytes test assigns its sample source to rawCode without changing the assertion. The MCP-001 requirement is marked complete in pull request 384.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e7ae9

This change adds MCP safety metadata, corrects operation classifications, and avoids duplicate relation activity records. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ToolDefinition
  participant defineTool
  participant MCPClient
  ToolDefinition->>defineTool: Configure operation metadata
  defineTool->>MCPClient: Expose MCP annotation hints

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main changes: MCP tool annotations and the Biome schema update.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the MCP annotation changes, relation activity fix, Biome update, lint cleanup, objectives, and validation results.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@packages/mcp-server/src/tools/issues.ts`:
- Line 587: Update setRelation so the issue_activity row is appended only when
the relation insert returns a newly added relation; preserve the
onConflictDoNothing behavior while guarding the activity-creation path against
duplicate no-op calls.

In `@packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts`:
- Line 91: Update the destructiveHint assignment in defineTool so omitted
config.destructive defaults to true rather than false, marking replacement,
clearing, moving, and rewrite operations as destructive. Preserve false only for
explicitly additive tools such as comment creation.

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packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts (1)

91-91: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major

Restore the conservative default for writable tools.

config.destructive ?? false emits destructiveHint: false for every writable tool that omits destructive. In packages/mcp-server/src/tools/workspace.ts, this misclassifies edit_comment, update_project, and update_milestone as additive operations even though they rewrite or change existing state.

Default this mapping to true, or set destructive: false only on tools that are strictly additive. Add a regression test for an unannotated writable tool and verify the serialized tools/list payload with @modelcontextprotocol/sdk version 1.30.0. This reintroduces the previously reported issue on this line.

Proposed correction

-        destructiveHint: config.destructive ?? false,
+        destructiveHint: config.destructive ?? true,

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In `@packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts` at line 91, Change the
destructiveHint mapping in the writable-tool definition to default
config.destructive to true, preserving explicit false values for strictly
additive tools. Add a regression test covering an unannotated writable tool and
assert the serialized tools/list payload using the `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`
1.30.0 behavior.

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In `@packages/mcp-server/src/tools/support.ts`:
- Line 91: Change the destructiveHint mapping in the writable-tool definition to
default config.destructive to true, preserving explicit false values for
strictly additive tools. Add a regression test covering an unannotated writable
tool and assert the serialized tools/list payload using the
`@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` 1.30.0 behavior.

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[imshashank]

Thanks for this, @ashutoshb206, and for the quick follow-up commits addressing review feedback.

Status check: both bots are clean on the latest commit (e7ae9bc). Greptile's confidence is 5/5 with "no blocking failure remains," and CodeRabbit's last pass found no actionable comments. All six review threads across both passes (the destructive/idempotent default direction, the setRelation duplicate-activity guard, and the non-idempotent move_doc/update_doc/edit_doc_comment annotations) are marked resolved.

There's no open issue tracking MCP-001 specifically, it's an internal item in docs/open-source-readiness.md, so there's nothing else to link here.

The one thing blocking this from a maintainer's side rather than yours: as a first-time-contributor branch, CI, CodeQL, Check links, and Publish documentation on this commit are sitting in action_required and need a maintainer to approve the workflow runs from the Actions tab before they'll run. I don't have the permissions to grant that from here. Labeling this blocked to reflect that, once the runs are approved and green, this looks ready for a final look.

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I ran this locally from a clean install. Lint, the comment policy, the Bun import check and typecheck are clean, the mcp-server suite passes (206/206) and the issue-service suite passes (98/98). The annotation mapping is right and the delete, remove and archive classifications match what the services actually do. Two tests are missing before I merge.

1. A test for the annotations themselves. packages/mcp-server/tests/tools.test.ts already walks listTools() and asserts readOnlyHint on every read tool (around line 896). Add the write side next to it: every delete_*, remove_* and archive_* tool carries destructiveHint: true, and create_issue, create_cycle and add_comment carry false. Without that, the next change to defineTool can flip these back and nothing will fail.

2. A test for the setRelation change in packages/core/src/work/issue-service.ts. It is the right change, a retried set_relation with the same arguments should not write a second activity row, but nothing covers it. Add a case in packages/core/tests/work/issue-service.test.ts that calls setRelation twice with the same pair and checks there is one activity row.

I have approved the CI runs on this head. Every new push from a first time contributor needs that approval again, so ping me after you push.

[imshashank]

Status check: CI actually ran on e7ae9bc after my last review. Everything is green except Unit and integration tests, which failed. The job log shows duplicate-key violations on workflow_state, label, and integration, tables this diff doesn't touch, plus what look like deliberate rollback-assertion errors, not a real assertion failure in the diff's own tests. That's the same signature as parallel-test database contention (see the ORBIT_TEST_LANE note in CLAUDE.md), so I'd want a clean re-run before treating it as a regression, but nothing here looks caused by this PR.

Code-side, nothing has changed since my last review: still waiting on the two tests I asked for (write-side destructiveHint/idempotentHint coverage in packages/mcp-server/tests/tools.test.ts, and a repeated-setRelation case in packages/core/tests/work/issue-service.test.ts). Updating the label to waiting-for-author since CI approval is no longer the blocker, those tests are.

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