MCP 2025-06-18

get_context

Read a deterministic, versioned, token-budgeted snapshot of current work and agent activity. The snapshot includes visible typed context links, this agent's recent approval outcomes, memory-proposal outcomes, and human guidance. Context links never grant access: both exact endpoints are reauthorized for this agent on every read. When Life access and explicit signal grants allow it, the snapshot also includes qualitative, source-backed capacity hints derived only from those grant-scoped signals, never an invented numeric score. Pass the previous version to receive a compact unchanged response when nothing has changed.

Input schema

This schema is shared with tools/list. The server also verifies current scopes and resource-level access before returning data or changing a record.

Synthetic example · JSON
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "sinceVersion": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Version returned by the previous get_context response"
    },
    "tokenBudget": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": 500,
      "maximum": 20000,
      "description": "Approximate maximum tokens returned."
    }
  },
  "required": [],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Call this tool

Use the tool name below in params.name. Supply the exact arguments described above; this envelope deliberately leaves required resource values for your authorized context.

Synthetic example · JSON
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "example_request",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_context",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}

Read the result before continuing

Inspect protocol errors and the tool result’s isError flag. A request being accepted is not proof of an external action completing. Preserve correlation IDs and unchanged mutation idempotency keys across safe retries.