nicobailon MCP scripting
For multi-call MCP work, write ordinary JavaScript with loops, filtering, chaining, fan-out, or other logic between calls. Run that source with mcpScript; it is the primary MCP orchestration surface. For a single MCP search, describe, status check, auth action, or tool call, use mcp instead.
Write the source naturally, then pass it as mcpScript's code argument:
const { items } = await tools.search({ query: "search issues", server: "github" });
const candidate = items[0];
if (!candidate) return { error: "No matching tool" };
const details = await tools.describe({ path: candidate.path });
if (details.error) return details;
const result = await tools.call(details.path, { query: "is:open label:bug" });
if (!result.ok) return result;
emit({ tool: details.path, completed: true });
return result.data;
Workflow
- Find candidate tools with
await tools.search({ query, server?, limit?, offset? }). - Inspect the exact returned path with
await tools.describe({ path }). - Call it with
tools.call(path, args).
Descriptors include inputTypeScript (a compact parameter shape, or formatted schema fallback). When a compact shape would omit documented fields, inputGuidance preserves their descriptions, including formats and units. Undocumented inputs stay compact.
When advertised by the server, outputSchema is the original JSON Schema and outputSchemaTarget is "data.structuredContent": it describes structured output inside the successful { ok: true, data } call envelope, not the envelope itself. Inspect this schema for result fields and constraints; unsupported constructs remain intact rather than being presented as an approximate TypeScript type. Both output fields are absent when no output schema is advertised. Discovery and cache refresh preserve these optional schemas; old cache entries gain them on the next server metadata refresh. Ordinary search results do not include schemas.
Calls resolve to { ok: true, data } or { ok: false, error }; handle failed calls instead of expecting them to stop the script. emit(value) adds user-visible output before the final return value. console output is captured too.
On success, data may still be the raw MCP CallToolResult envelope rather than the domain payload. Check data.structuredContent for the fields your script expects; if they are absent, inspect text blocks in data.content too (some servers emit newline-delimited JSON). If neither shape is understood, return or emit the envelope for inspection instead of coercing it to [] or {}.
tools is a non-enumerable proxy: Object.keys(tools) throws. Always use tools.search for discovery. When a known flat path is a valid identifier, direct calls such as tools.github_search_issues(args) are supported; use bracket syntax for hyphenated names: tools["server_tool-name"](args). search, call, describe, and promise/serialization names (then, catch, finally, toJSON, toString, valueOf) are reserved on the proxy; if a flat path collides with one, call it via tools.call("exact-path", args).
Successful intermediate data bypasses presentation truncation, summarization, and artifact spill until the script emits, logs, or returns it. A fixed, non-configurable 16 MiB cumulative UTF-8 JSON transfer budget per script covers sequential and parallel calls. A result exceeding the remaining budget returns { ok: false, error: { code: "intermediate_result_too_large", message } } with a failed call trace; rejected calls do not consume the budget, but upstream side effects may already have happened. Resource calls retain transformed text or "(empty resource)"; emitted, logged, or returned output and ordinary MCP calls remain guarded. This is not a memory limit: responses, serialization, copies, concurrency, and script values still allocate memory, and synchronous serialization can delay deadline handling.
tools.search and tools.describe are asynchronous and must be awaited. The default script timeout is 30 seconds; the worker is terminated at the deadline, including for infinite loops. Every invocation still uses normal lazy connection, authentication, and approval gates. Result details contain a concise calls trace with every search, describe, and call operation; each entry includes its query or path, outcome, and duration.
Use plain JavaScript loops and Promise utilities for composition. Fluent helpers such as tools.find(...).one(), tools.parallel(...), and tools.retry(...) are not provided.