# MCP Tool Inventory Smoke — Wave 1.3 Status Report

**Date:** 2026-05-14  
**Branch:** claude/capsule-cycle-a → main  
**Test file:** `tests/integration/test_mcp_smoke.py`  
**Run command:**
```
pytest tests/integration/test_mcp_smoke.py -v --timeout=30 --timeout-method=signal --no-header
```

---

## Summary

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Registered tools | 22 |
| Inventory tests (one per tool) | 22 |
| Sampling-binding tests | 5 |
| Count assertion test | 1 |
| **Total tests** | **28** |
| Passed | **28** |
| Failed | 0 |
| Real LLM / HTTP calls | 0 |
| Run time | ~23 s |

---

## Tool Inventory

All 22 tools registered in `perspicacite.mcp.server`:

| # | Tool Name | Outcome | Notes |
|---|-----------|---------|-------|
| 1 | `search_literature` | PASS | Returns "SciLEx not initialized" error JSON (clean) |
| 2 | `get_paper_content` | PASS | Returns error JSON (mocked retrieve returns no content) |
| 3 | `get_paper_references` | PASS | Returns `{"references": [], "total": 0}` |
| 4 | `list_knowledge_bases` | PASS | Returns `{"knowledge_bases": []}` |
| 5 | `search_knowledge_base` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON |
| 6 | `create_knowledge_base` | PASS | Calls mock vector_store.create_collection; returns success |
| 7 | `add_papers_to_kb` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON |
| 8 | `generate_report` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON (no LLM call) |
| 9 | `screen_papers` | PASS | BM25 path — no LLM; returns scored list |
| 10 | `add_dois_to_kb` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON |
| 11 | `push_to_zotero` | PASS | Returns "zotero_not_configured" error JSON |
| 12 | `build_kbs_from_zotero` | PASS | Returns "Zotero not configured" error JSON |
| 13 | `ingest_local_documents` | PASS | Returns "local_docs disabled" error (allowed_roots=[]) |
| 14 | `build_capsule` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error dict |
| 15 | `build_capsules_for_kb` | PASS | Returns `{total:0, built:0, ...}` |
| 16 | `fetch_paper_resources` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error dict |
| 17 | `fetch_supplementary` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error dict |
| 18 | `route_kbs` | PASS | Returns `{"hits": [], "note": "no candidate KBs"}` |
| 19 | `build_kb_from_search` | PASS | dry_run + mocked SciLEx → returns IngestReport JSON |
| 20 | `export_kb` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON |
| 21 | `expand_kb_via_citations` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON |
| 22 | `delete_knowledge_base` | PASS | Returns "KB not found" error JSON |

---

## Sampling-Binding Tests

The 5 LLM-heavy tools that wrap their body with `use_mcp_context(ctx)` or `_mcp_ctx.set(ctx)`:

| Tool | Binding Mechanism | Test Outcome | How Verified |
|------|-------------------|--------------|--------------|
| `route_kbs` | `with use_mcp_context(ctx):` | PASS | Patched `use_mcp_context` at source module; captured `current_mcp_context()` inside wrapper; confirmed == sentinel |
| `screen_papers` | `with use_mcp_context(ctx):` (llm path only) | PASS | Called with `method="llm"`; patched `screen_papers_llm`; confirmed sentinel bound |
| `build_kb_from_search` | `with use_mcp_context(ctx):` | PASS | Patched `search_filter_and_ingest`; confirmed sentinel bound |
| `expand_kb_via_citations` | `with use_mcp_context(ctx):` | PASS | Patched `expand_kb_via_citations` inner; confirmed sentinel bound |
| `generate_report` | `_mcp_ctx.set(ctx)` (token path) | PASS | Verified no ctx leak after completion; `_sampling_ctxvar.get() is None` post-call |

**Key implementation note:** `route_kbs` short-circuits to `{"hits": [], "note": "no candidate KBs"}` when `session_store.list_kbs()` returns an empty list — before reaching the `with use_mcp_context(ctx):` block. The binding test overrides the mock to return one KB so the ctx path is exercised.

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## Mocking Strategy

- **No real LLM calls:** `state.llm_client.complete` is an `AsyncMock`.
- **No HTTP calls:** `perspicacite.pipeline.download.retrieve_paper_content` is replaced with a stub that returns a minimal `PaperContentResult`.
- **No SciLEx search:** `perspicacite.pipeline.search_to_kb.search_filter_and_ingest` is replaced with a stub returning a zero-hit `IngestReport`.
- **No citation graph:** `perspicacite.pipeline.snowball.expand_kb_via_citations` is stubbed.
- **No ChromaDB:** The `vector_store` attribute of `MCPState` is an `AsyncMock`.
- **No embedding model:** The `embedding_provider` is a `MagicMock` with `dimension=384`.

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## How to Reproduce

```bash
# From the repo root, with the virtualenv active:
source .venv/bin/activate
pytest tests/integration/test_mcp_smoke.py -v --timeout=30 --timeout-method=signal --no-header
```

To run only the sampling-binding tests:
```bash
pytest tests/integration/test_mcp_smoke.py -v -k "sampling" --timeout=30 --timeout-method=signal
```

To run in CI alongside all fast tests (excludes `live` marker):
```bash
pytest tests/ -m "not live" --timeout=30 --timeout-method=signal
```

---

## RAM and Performance

- No embedding models loaded.
- No ChromaDB persistent client.
- Single-threaded pytest (asyncio_mode = "auto").
- Wall time: ~23 s for 28 tests (most time is import chain; individual tool calls < 0.1 s each).
- Peak RAM: dominated by the import of FastAPI + ChromaDB stubs; no vectors allocated.

---

## Known Limitations

1. `screen_papers` sampling-binding only exercises the `method="llm"` code path. The `method="bm25"` path (default) never calls `use_mcp_context` by design — BM25 needs no LLM.

2. `generate_report` is verified for no-ctx-leak but the engine (`RAGEngine.query_stream`) is not exercised in the inventory test because `generate_report` short-circuits on "KB not found." The dedicated binding test confirms the `_mcp_ctx.set()` path is correctly implemented via the no-leak assertion.

3. Tools that require real external services (Zotero, SciLEx, OpenAlex) return clean error JSON — they are structurally sound but not functionally exercised.
