# Documentation for Commit 2431280
**Commit Hash:** 2431280df40e878a0a256dfc7463ace387fcdb62
**Commit Message:** feat(tools): enhance definitions with Pydantic models and type annotations
**Generated:** Thu Oct 16 20:26:26 EDT 2025
**Repository:** geminiAgentMCP
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### **Technical Documentation: MCP Server Tooling Refactor**
This document details a significant refactor of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tools, focusing on improving type safety, API clarity, and tool metadata.
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### 1. Summary
This update introduces Pydantic models for all tool outputs, replacing generic dictionaries with strongly-typed data structures. It also enhances tool function signatures with `typing.Annotated` for better parameter descriptions and adds metadata annotations to the `@mcp.tool` decorator. These changes provide a more robust, self-documenting, and predictable tool interface for the Gemini Agent.
### 2. Detailed Changes
#### a. Pydantic Model Integration for Tool Outputs
All tools have been updated to return Pydantic `BaseModel` instances instead of dictionaries. This ensures that the data returned by each tool is structured, validated, and typed.
**New Pydantic Models:**
* `GeminiResponse`
* `GitHubIssueResponse`
* `GitHubPrResponse`
* `DocstringResponse`
* `DependencyInfo` & `DependencyReport`
* `LintingReport`
**Example:** The `create_github_pr` tool now returns a `GitHubPrResponse` object.
* **Before:**
```python
def create_github_pr(...) -> dict:
# ...
return {"pr_url": "https://..."}
```
* **After:**
```python
class GitHubPrResponse(BaseModel):
pr_url: str
def create_github_pr(...) -> GitHubPrResponse:
# ...
return GitHubPrResponse(pr_url="https://...")
```
#### b. Enhanced Type Hinting with `Annotated`
Function parameters for all tools now use `typing.Annotated` to provide descriptive context directly within the signature. This improves readability and provides richer information for developers and automated tooling.
* **Before:**
```python
def create_github_issue(repo_owner: str, repo_name: str, title: str, body: str = ''):
```
* **After:**
```python
from typing import Annotated
def create_github_issue(
repo_owner: Annotated[str, "The owner of the GitHub repository."],
repo_name: Annotated[str, "The name of the GitHub repository."],
# ...
):
```
#### c. Tool Metadata Annotations
The `@mcp.tool` decorator now accepts an `annotations` argument. This provides metadata to the MCP framework about the tool's behavior, such as whether it interacts with the external world (`openWorldHint`) or modifies local state (`readOnlyHint`).
```python
@mcp.tool(annotations={"readOnlyHint": True})
def lint_code(...):
```
#### d. New Resource: `get_greeting`
A new example resource, `get_greeting`, has been added to demonstrate the `@mcp.resource` functionality.
```python
@mcp.resource("greeting://{name}")
def get_greeting(name: str) -> str:
"""Get a personalized greeting"""
return f"Hello, {name}!"
```
### 3. Impact
* **Improved Type Safety:** Pydantic's validation prevents malformed data from being returned by tools, reducing the likelihood of runtime errors in client code.
* **Enhanced API Clarity:** The new models and `Annotated` hints make the tool signatures self-documenting, making it easier to understand what each tool requires and returns.
* **Better Agent Interaction:** The new tool annotations provide crucial hints to the Gemini Agent, potentially leading to more intelligent and appropriate tool usage.
### 4. Breaking Changes
**The return types of all tools have changed from `dict` to Pydantic `BaseModel` instances.**
This is a **critical breaking change**. Any client code that consumes the output of these tools will need to be updated. Accessing data via dictionary key lookup (e.g., `result['key']`) will no longer work and will raise an error.
### 5. Migration Notes
To adapt to these changes, developers must update their client code to interact with Pydantic model attributes instead of dictionary keys.
**Migration Example:**
If your existing code processes the output of `create_github_pr` like this:
* **Old Code:**
```python
result = create_github_pr(...)
pr_url = result['pr_url']
```
You must update it to use attribute access:
* **New Code:**
```python
result = create_github_pr(...) # result is now a GitHubPrResponse instance
pr_url = result.pr_url
```
Additionally, update any type hints in your client code from `dict` to the corresponding Pydantic model (e.g., `GitHubPrResponse`).