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Get API Surface

get-api-surface · Query · CorePlugin · Code discovery and navigation

Returns exported API symbols for a selected scope.

Availability: Built in and published by default.

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Behaviour annotations

Annotation Value
destructiveHint false
idempotentHint true
openWorldHint false
readOnlyHint true
title "Get API Surface"

Request

Property Type Required Description
scope object | null No The search scope.
minimumAccessibility string enum ("Public", "Protected", "Internal") No The minimum accessibility threshold as Public, Protected, or Internal.
includeObsolete boolean No Whether obsolete symbols should be included.
symbolsLimit integer | null No Maximum number of results to return.
workspace object | null No Provide workspaceId, alias, path, or any combination.

Response

Success response

Property Type Required Description
ok boolean constant (true) Yes Whether the tool invocation succeeded.
data object | null Yes Tool-specific result payload.
snapshot object Yes Exact immutable workspace snapshot associated with the result, when available.

Error response

Property Type Required Description
ok boolean constant (false) Yes Whether the tool invocation succeeded.
error object Yes Structured error details when the invocation failed.
continuation oneOf No Action the agent should take before retrying or continuing.

Bounded collections and continuation

These response locations publish returned items with explicit bounds and continuation state:

  • $/oneOf/0/properties/data/properties/symbols

Continuations and required actions

A non-success response may include a structured continuation at the following schema location. Follow its tool call or user-action instruction instead of guessing how to retry:

  • $/oneOf/1/properties/continuation
Complete input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "scope": {
      "description": "The search scope.",
      "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "kind": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "Solution",
            "Project",
            "Document",
            "Projects"
          ],
          "default": "Solution"
        },
        "project": {
          "description": "Used only when kind is Project.",
          "type": [
            "object",
            "null"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "projectId": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "name": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "path": {
              "description": "Workspace-relative path.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "targetFramework": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "document": {
          "description": "Used only when kind is Document.",
          "type": [
            "object",
            "null"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "project": {
              "description": "Disambiguates documents with matching paths or IDs.",
              "type": [
                "object",
                "null"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "projectId": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "path": {
                  "description": "Workspace-relative path.",
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "targetFramework": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              }
            },
            "path": {
              "description": "Workspace-relative path.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "documentId": {
              "description": "Workspace-local document ID.",
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "projects": {
          "description": "Used only when kind is Projects.",
          "type": [
            "array",
            "null"
          ],
          "items": {
            "description": "Provide projectId, name, path, targetFramework, or any combination.",
            "type": [
              "object",
              "null"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "projectId": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "path": {
                "description": "Workspace-relative path.",
                "type": "string"
              },
              "targetFramework": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "minimumAccessibility": {
      "description": "The minimum accessibility threshold as Public, Protected, or Internal.",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "Public",
        "Protected",
        "Internal"
      ],
      "default": "Public"
    },
    "includeObsolete": {
      "description": "Whether obsolete symbols should be included.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "symbolsLimit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of results to return.",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ],
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 2147483647,
      "default": 100
    },
    "workspace": {
      "description": "Provide workspaceId, alias, path, or any combination.",
      "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "workspaceId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid"
        },
        "alias": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "path": {
          "description": "Absolute workspace path.",
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Complete output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "oneOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "ok",
        "data",
        "snapshot"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": true,
          "description": "Whether the tool invocation succeeded."
        },
        "data": {
          "type": [
            "object",
            "null"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "symbols": {
              "description": "The returned exported API symbols.",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "items": {
                  "description": "Items returned in this page.",
                  "type": [
                    "array",
                    "null"
                  ],
                  "items": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "symbol": {
                        "description": "The exported symbol.",
                        "type": [
                          "object",
                          "null"
                        ],
                        "properties": {
                          "displayName": {
                            "description": "The display name of the symbol.",
                            "type": "string"
                          },
                          "kind": {
                            "description": "The symbol kind.",
                            "type": "string"
                          },
                          "documentationCommentId": {
                            "description": "The documentation comment identifier, when available.",
                            "type": [
                              "string",
                              "null"
                            ]
                          },
                          "location": {
                            "description": "The optional source location of the symbol.",
                            "type": [
                              "object",
                              "null"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                              "document": {
                                "description": "The resolved document.",
                                "type": [
                                  "object",
                                  "null"
                                ],
                                "properties": {
                                  "documentId": {
                                    "description": "The document identifier.",
                                    "type": "string"
                                  },
                                  "path": {
                                    "description": "The normalized document path.",
                                    "type": "string"
                                  },
                                  "projectId": {
                                    "description": "The owning project identifier.",
                                    "type": "string"
                                  }
                                },
                                "required": [
                                  "documentId",
                                  "path",
                                  "projectId"
                                ]
                              },
                              "span": {
                                "description": "The resolved text span.",
                                "type": [
                                  "object",
                                  "null"
                                ],
                                "properties": {
                                  "start": {
                                    "description": "Zero-based UTF-16 offset.",
                                    "type": "integer",
                                    "minimum": 0,
                                    "maximum": 2147483647
                                  },
                                  "length": {
                                    "description": "UTF-16 code-unit length.",
                                    "type": "integer",
                                    "minimum": 0,
                                    "maximum": 2147483647
                                  }
                                }
                              },
                              "line": {
                                "description": "The one-based line number.",
                                "type": "integer"
                              },
                              "column": {
                                "description": "The one-based column number.",
                                "type": "integer"
                              },
                              "snapshot": {
                                "description": "The exact immutable workspace snapshot associated with this location.",
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                  "workspaceId": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "format": "uuid"
                                  },
                                  "workspaceEpoch": {
                                    "type": "integer"
                                  },
                                  "snapshotId": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "format": "uuid"
                                  },
                                  "transactionRevision": {
                                    "type": [
                                      "integer",
                                      "null"
                                    ]
                                  }
                                },
                                "required": [
                                  "workspaceId",
                                  "workspaceEpoch",
                                  "snapshotId",
                                  "transactionRevision"
                                ]
                              },
                              "selector": {
                                "description": "The canonical selector that can resolve this source location again.",
                                "type": [
                                  "object",
                                  "null"
                                ],
                                "properties": {
                                  "span": {
                                    "type": "object",
                                    "properties": {
                                      "document": {
                                        "description": "Provide exactly one of path or documentId.",
                                        "type": "object",
                                        "properties": {
                                          "project": {
                                            "description": "Disambiguates documents with matching paths or IDs.",
                                            "type": [
                                              "object",
                                              "null"
                                            ],
                                            "properties": {
                                              "projectId": {
                                                "type": [
                                                  "string",
                                                  "null"
                                                ]
                                              },
                                              "name": {
                                                "type": [
                                                  "string",
                                                  "null"
                                                ]
                                              },
                                              "path": {
                                                "description": "Workspace-relative path.",
                                                "type": [
                                                  "string",
                                                  "null"
                                                ]
                                              },
                                              "targetFramework": {
                                                "type": [
                                                  "string",
                                                  "null"
                                                ]
                                              }
                                            }
                                          },
                                          "path": {
                                            "description": "Workspace-relative path.",
                                            "type": [
                                              "string",
                                              "null"
                                            ]
                                          },
                                          "documentId": {
                                            "description": "Workspace-local document ID.",
                                            "type": [
                                              "string",
                                              "null"
                                            ]
                                          }
                                        }
                                      },
                                      "range": {
                                        "description": "Zero-based UTF-16 range.",
                                        "type": "object",
                                        "properties": {
                                          "start": {
                                            "description": "Zero-based UTF-16 offset.",
                                            "type": "integer",
                                            "minimum": 0,
                                            "maximum": 2147483647
                                          },
                                          "length": {
                                            "description": "UTF-16 code-unit length.",
                                            "type": "integer",
                                            "minimum": 0,
                                            "maximum": 2147483647
                                          }
                                        }
                                      }
                                    },
                                    "required": [
                                      "document",
                                      "range"
                                    ]
                                  }
                                },
                                "required": [
                                  "span"
                                ]
                              }
                            },
                            "required": [
                              "snapshot"
                            ]
                          }
                        },
                        "required": [
                          "displayName",
                          "kind"
                        ]
                      },
                      "accessibility": {
                        "description": "The declared accessibility.",
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "isObsolete": {
                        "description": "Whether the symbol is marked obsolete.",
                        "type": "boolean"
                      }
                    },
                    "required": [
                      "accessibility"
                    ]
                  }
                },
                "hasMore": {
                  "description": "Whether additional items were available beyond this page.",
                  "type": "boolean"
                },
                "totalCount": {
                  "description": "Complete result count, when available without additional expensive work.",
                  "type": [
                    "integer",
                    "null"
                  ]
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "description": "Tool-specific result payload."
        },
        "snapshot": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "workspaceId": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "uuid"
            },
            "workspaceEpoch": {
              "type": "integer"
            },
            "snapshotId": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "uuid"
            },
            "transactionRevision": {
              "type": [
                "integer",
                "null"
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "workspaceId",
            "workspaceEpoch",
            "snapshotId",
            "transactionRevision"
          ],
          "description": "Exact immutable workspace snapshot associated with the result, when available."
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "ok",
        "error"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": false,
          "description": "Whether the tool invocation succeeded."
        },
        "error": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "code": {
              "description": "Stable machine-readable error code.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "message": {
              "description": "Human-readable explanation of the failure.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "correlationId": {
              "description": "Correlation identifier for matching the failure to server-side diagnostics, when available.",
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "code",
            "message"
          ],
          "description": "Structured error details when the invocation failed."
        },
        "continuation": {
          "oneOf": [
            {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "tool",
                "instruction"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "const": "CallTool",
                  "description": "Action required before the original request can continue."
                },
                "instruction": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Agent-facing instruction explaining how to continue.",
                  "minLength": 1
                },
                "tool": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Tool to call before continuing the original request.",
                  "minLength": 1
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "tools",
                "instruction"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "const": "ChooseTool",
                  "description": "Action required before the original request can continue."
                },
                "instruction": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Agent-facing instruction explaining how to continue.",
                  "minLength": 1
                },
                "tools": {
                  "type": "array",
                  "description": "Allowed tool choices from which the agent must select one.",
                  "minItems": 1,
                  "uniqueItems": true,
                  "items": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Name of a tool the agent may choose.",
                    "minLength": 1
                  }
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "instruction"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "const": "RetryRequest",
                  "description": "Action required before the original request can continue."
                },
                "instruction": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Agent-facing instruction explaining how to continue.",
                  "minLength": 1
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "instruction"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "const": "ReviseRequest",
                  "description": "Action required before the original request can continue."
                },
                "instruction": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Agent-facing instruction explaining how to continue.",
                  "minLength": 1
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "instruction"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "const": "ResolveExternally",
                  "description": "Action required before the original request can continue."
                },
                "instruction": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Agent-facing instruction explaining how to continue.",
                  "minLength": 1
                }
              }
            }
          ],
          "description": "Action the agent should take before retrying or continuing."
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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