feat: let an agent ask what its connectors are, instead of guessing
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An agent that wanted to know which MCP servers it had called `list_mcp_servers` — a tool that has never existed anywhere in this repo — and got "unknown tool". It was not a random hallucination: the prompt block says "the system prompt shows available servers", and `render_mcp_list` returned an empty string when nothing was connected. The model read a promise, found no table, and invented the discovery tool the text implied. The `mcp` kinds of `list_items`/`toggle_item` had been removed to close the §14 RCE vector, which was right for the write half and left no read half at all. So `list_items` gains `type: "mcp"` and returns the whole picture in one call, split into four buckets that each answer a different question: what is already loaded (call its tools directly), what is ready for `activate_tools`, what is installed but unusable and why, and what the user could still activate. Conflating the first two is what produced the original failure, so they stay apart. Every entry carries a derived note and a next step; when the step is a human one, it says so and names the UI page, because there is no tool for it. Read-only, and structurally so: `toggle_item` deliberately gains nothing, and the new `McpDirectory` trait exposes exactly one method. Enabling a connector from a tool is the thing §14 removed, and a wider seam here is how it would come back. Deny-by-default survives the report — an ungranted connector is not named at all, since a listing of what to ask for is itself a leak — except for a catalogue manager, who cannot administer what they cannot see. Three sources answer three questions and none is redundant: the registry says what exists and who may have it, the owner database says what was activated, and the live runtimes say what is connected right now — a row can read `ready` while its process is dead. The live half reaches the tool through the turn's extension map, alongside the pool and the fs view; with no live view the durable picture still renders, so freshness is an improvement and never a precondition. The static `__MCP_LIST__` table stays as it was, because it is frozen per conversation for prompt-cache stability. Its empty case now says so out loud and points at the tool.
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# MCP servers
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MCP tools are lazy-loaded. The system prompt shows available servers — call `activate_tools(["name", ...])` to load their tools into the session. The grant persists for the whole session (survives restart). You do not need to call it again for the same server.
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MCP servers are what users call **Connectors**. Their tools are lazy-loaded: the table below lists the loadable ones — call `activate_tools(["name", ...])` to load their tools into the session. The grant persists for the whole session (survives restart). You do not need to call it again for the same server.
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Once active, tools are called as `mcp__<server>__<tool>` (e.g. `mcp__gmail__send_message`, `mcp__gcal__list_events`).
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The table is a static summary. For the full picture — which connectors are already loaded, which are installed but unusable and why, and which the user could still activate — call `list_items({"type": "mcp"})`. Never guess at a connector's state, and never look for a tool that enables or configures one: there is none, it is done by the user in the web UI.
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<!-- MCP_LIST -->
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