Skip to main content
Glama
djwmarcx

Better Mealie MCP

by djwmarcx
OverviewSchemaSourceRelated ServersDiscussionsAdmin
Remote

Update Recipes

update_recipes

Update Many

Instructions

Update Many

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
bodyYes
accept-languageNo

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

  1. Changed10 schema fields changedv3.29.0
    • addedInput schema / $defs / IngredientFood-Input / properties / recipeCount
      Added value: +{
+  "type": "integer"
+}
    • removedInput schema / $defs / Recipe-Input / properties / lastMade
      Removed value: -{
-  "anyOf": [
-    {
-      "format": "date-time",
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    {
-      "type": "null"
-    }
-  ]
-}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / Recipe-Input / properties / performTimeSeconds
      Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "maximum": 2147483647,
+      "minimum": 0,
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ]
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / Recipe-Input / properties / prepTimeSeconds
      Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "maximum": 2147483647,
+      "minimum": 0,
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ]
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / Recipe-Input / properties / totalTimeSeconds
      Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "maximum": 2147483647,
+      "minimum": 0,
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ]
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeCategoryIn
      Added value: +{
+  "properties": {
+    "groupId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "id": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "recipeCount": {
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "slug": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "name"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeIn
      Added value: +{
+  "description": "Recipe as accepted on the write path only (create/update/patch request bodies).\n\nUnlike Recipe -- which is also used for responses and must guarantee real ids/slugs on\nits organizers -- this allows a client (e.g. hand-edited or re-imported JSON) to submit\ntags/categories/tools that omit id/slug, to be resolved or generated server-side.",
+  "properties": {
+    "assets": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeAsset"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "comments": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeCommentOut-Input"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "cookTime": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "createdAt": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "date-time",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "dateAdded": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "date",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "dateUpdated": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "date-time",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "description": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "extras": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "additionalProperties": true,
+          "type": "object"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "groupId": {
+      "format": "uuid",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "householdId": {
+      "format": "uuid",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "id": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "image": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {},
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "notes": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeNote"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "nutrition": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "$ref": "#/$defs/Nutrition"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "orgURL": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "performTime": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "performTimeSeconds": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "maximum": 2147483647,
+          "minimum": 0,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "prepTime": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "prepTimeSeconds": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "maximum": 2147483647,
+          "minimum": 0,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "rating": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "number"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "recipeCategory": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeCategoryIn"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "recipeIngredient": {
+      "items": {
+        "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeIngredient-Input"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "recipeInstructions": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeStep"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "recipeServings": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "recipeYield": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "recipeYieldQuantity": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "settings": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeSettings"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "slug": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "tags": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeTagIn"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "tools": {
+      "items": {
+        "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeToolIn"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "totalTime": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "totalTimeSeconds": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "maximum": 2147483647,
+          "minimum": 0,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "update_at": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "date-time",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "userId": {
+      "format": "uuid",
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeTagIn
      Added value: +{
+  "description": "Lenient variant of RecipeTag accepted only on the recipe write path (JSON import/edit),\nwhere a client may omit id/slug and expect them to be resolved or generated server-side.\nNever used for responses -- RecipeTag itself stays strictly required there.\n\nDeliberately does not subclass RecipeTag: narrowing id/slug from required to optional in a\nsubclass would be an unsound field override (mypy correctly rejects it), so this is built as\nan independent sibling with the same fields instead, matching how RecipeToolCreate/Save/Out\nare already kept as separate classes elsewhere in this module rather than narrowing each other.",
+  "properties": {
+    "groupId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "id": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "recipeCount": {
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "slug": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "name"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeToolIn
      Added value: +{
+  "description": "Lenient variant of RecipeTool accepted only on the recipe write path. See RecipeTagIn.",
+  "properties": {
+    "groupId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "householdsWithTool": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "id": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "recipeCount": {
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "slug": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "name"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • changedInput schema / properties / body / items / $ref
      Previous value: -"#/$defs/Recipe-Input"New value: +"#/$defs/RecipeIn"
  2. Changed1 schema field changedv3.28.0
    • changedInput schema / $defs / RecipeCommentOut-Input / required
      Previous value: -[
-  "recipeId",
-  "text",
-  "id",
-  "createdAt",
-  "update_at",
-  "userId",
-  "user"
-]New value: +[
+  "id",
+  "recipeId",
+  "text",
+  "createdAt",
+  "update_at",
+  "userId",
+  "user"
+]
  3. Changed10 schema fields changedv3.26.0
    • addedInput schema / $defs / CreateIngredientFood / properties / substitutions
      Added value: +{
+  "items": {
+    "$ref": "#/$defs/CreateIngredientFoodSubstitution"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / CreateIngredientFoodSubstitution
      Added value: +{
+  "properties": {
+    "note": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "substituteFoodId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / IngredientFood-Input / properties / substitutions
      Added value: +{
+  "items": {
+    "$ref": "#/$defs/IngredientFoodSubstitution"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / IngredientFoodSubstitution
      Added value: +{
+  "properties": {
+    "note": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "substituteFood": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "$ref": "#/$defs/IngredientFoodSummary"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "substituteFoodId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / IngredientFoodSummary
      Added value: +{
+  "description": "A trimmed projection of a food, with nothing on it that can recurse.\n\nSubstitutions reference this rather than the full IngredientFood, which would make\nPydantic walk food -> substitutions -> food forever and generate an equally circular\nTypeScript type.",
+  "properties": {
+    "id": {
+      "format": "uuid",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "pluralName": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "id",
+    "name"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / NoteReference
      Added value: +{
+  "properties": {
+    "referenceId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeIngredient-Input / properties / substitutions
      Added value: +{
+  "items": {
+    "$ref": "#/$defs/RecipeIngredientSubstitution"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeIngredientSubstitution
      Added value: +{
+  "properties": {
+    "note": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "substituteFood": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "$ref": "#/$defs/IngredientFoodSummary"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    "substituteFoodId": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "format": "uuid",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeNote / properties / referenceId
      Added value: +{
+  "format": "uuid",
+  "type": "string"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeStep / properties / noteReferences
      Added value: +{
+  "items": {
+    "$ref": "#/$defs/NoteReference"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}
  4. Changed3 schema fields changedv3.25.1
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeCategory / properties / recipeCount
      Added value: +{
+  "type": "integer"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeTag / properties / recipeCount
      Added value: +{
+  "type": "integer"
+}
    • addedInput schema / $defs / RecipeTool / properties / recipeCount
      Added value: +{
+  "type": "integer"
+}
  5. First observedv3.20.1

TDQS

D1.3/5.0
Behavior1/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

No annotations are supplied, so the description carries the full burden and delivers nothing: it does not say whether the update is a full replace or a merge, what happens to fields omitted from each RecipeIn, whether existing tags/ingredients are clobbered, or what permissions are required.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness2/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

The text is short, but this is under-specification rather than conciseness: a two-word phrase that qualifies for neither front-loading nor information density.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness1/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

For a bulk mutation over a deeply nested write schema with no annotations and no output schema, the description supplies none of the safety, semantics, or routing information an agent needs to call it correctly.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters1/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

Schema description coverage is 0% and the body is an array of ~40-field RecipeIn objects with packed nested sub-schemas, yet the description explains neither the array semantics (one request per recipe? order? all-or-nothing?) nor any field. The accept-language header is likewise unmentioned.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose2/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

"Update Many" is a fragment that names a verb and a quantity but never the resource being updated, so the agent must fall back on the title and tool name to learn this touches recipes. It is close to a tautology of the name.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines1/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

There is no indication of when to use this bulk endpoint versus the many siblings it competes with (update_recipes_by_slug, patch_recipes, patch_recipes_by_slug, create_recipes). Nothing about prerequisites, batching semantics, or partial vs full replacement.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.

Deploy Server

Other Tools