MCP 2025-06-18

work_update

Update task details, next action, priority, story points, tags, due date, or visibility.

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": {
    "itemId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Work item ID"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Task title"
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Full description"
    },
    "documentCAS": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": [
        "documentId",
        "epoch",
        "version",
        "originalDescriptionHash"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "documentId": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "epoch": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1
        },
        "version": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "originalDescriptionHash": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "nextAction": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Concrete next action"
    },
    "priority": {
      "enum": [
        "low",
        "normal",
        "high",
        "urgent"
      ]
    },
    "storyPoints": {
      "enum": [
        1,
        2,
        3,
        5,
        8,
        null
      ]
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "dueAt": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "visibility": {
      "enum": [
        "private",
        "tenant"
      ]
    },
    "idempotencyKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique retry key"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "itemId",
    "idempotencyKey"
  ],
  "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": "work_update",
    "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.