# Comprehensive MCP Eval: Pipeline, Code, Service, Environment, Connectors, Secrets

**Scoring:** Pass=1, Partial=0.5 (API/feature limitation), Fail=0.

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## Token consumption

Token usage was **not captured** during this eval run. Evals were executed as direct MCP tool calls from the IDE; consumption is attributed to the client/session (e.g. Cursor), not returned by the Harness MCP server.

To add token data in a future run:

- **Option A:** Run the eval via a script that calls an LLM API (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic) with tool use and record `usage.input_tokens`, `usage.output_tokens` from the API response.
- **Option B:** Use a client that reports per-request or per-session token usage (e.g. Cursor usage dashboard, Claude API usage) and map requests to eval cases by tool name and arguments.

Placeholder table for token consumption (fill when run with instrumentation):

| # | ID | Input tokens | Output tokens | Total |
|---|-----|--------------|---------------|-------|
| 1 | pl_list | — | — | — |
| 2 | pl_get | — | — | — |
| 3 | pl_summary | — | — | — |
| 4 | exec_list | — | — | — |
| 5 | exec_get | — | — | — |
| 6 | trigger_list | — | — | — |
| 7 | input_set_list | — | — | — |
| 8 | repo_list | — | — | — |
| 9 | repo_get | — | — | — |
| 10 | pr_list | — | — | — |
| 11 | svc_list | — | — | — |
| 12 | svc_get | — | — | — |
| 13 | env_list | — | — | — |
| 14 | env_get | — | — | — |
| 15 | infra_list | — | — | — |
| 16 | conn_list | — | — | — |
| 17 | conn_get | — | — | — |
| 18 | secret_list | — | — | — |
| 19 | secret_get | — | — | — |
| 20 | pl_create | — | — | — |
| 21 | pl_update | — | — | — |
| 22 | pl_delete | — | — | — |
| 23 | env_create | — | — | — |
| 24 | svc_create | — | — | — |
| 25 | svc_update | — | — | — |
| 26 | conn_update | — | — | — |
| **Aggregate** | | — | — | — |

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## Eval Cases

### Pipeline
| # | ID | Tool | Args | Pass criteria |
|---|-----|------|------|----------------|
| 1 | pl_list | harness_list | resource_type=pipeline, size=5 | items array, total ≥ 0 |
| 2 | pl_get | harness_get | resource_type=pipeline, resource_id=nginx_multi_env_deployment | pipeline/yamlPipeline or valid entity |
| 3 | pl_summary | harness_get | resource_type=pipeline_summary, resource_id=nginx_multi_env_deployment | summary object |
| 4 | exec_list | harness_list | resource_type=execution, pipeline_id=calendar_app_ci, size=5 | items or total |
| 5 | exec_get | harness_get | resource_type=execution, resource_id=<execution_id> | execution details |
| 6 | trigger_list | harness_list | resource_type=trigger, pipeline_id=nginx_multi_env_deployment, size=5 | items or valid response |
| 7 | input_set_list | harness_list | resource_type=input_set, pipeline_id=nginx_multi_env_deployment, size=5 | items or valid response |

### Code
| 8 | repo_list | harness_list | resource_type=repository, size=5 | items/repos array or valid |
| 9 | repo_get | harness_get | resource_type=repository, resource_id=<repo_id> | repo details (skip if no repos) |
| 10 | pr_list | harness_list | resource_type=pull_request, repo_id=<repo_id>, size=5 | items or valid (skip if no repo_id) |

### Service
| 11 | svc_list | harness_list | resource_type=service, size=5 | items array |
| 12 | svc_get | harness_get | resource_type=service, resource_id=kubernetes | service object |

### Environment
| 13 | env_list | harness_list | resource_type=environment, size=10 | items array |
| 14 | env_get | harness_get | resource_type=environment, resource_id=dev | environment object |
| 15 | infra_list | harness_list | resource_type=infrastructure, environment_id=dev, size=5 | items or valid |

### Connectors
| 16 | conn_list | harness_list | resource_type=connector, size=10 | items array |
| 17 | conn_get | harness_get | resource_type=connector, resource_id=<connector_id> | connector object |

### Secrets
| 18 | secret_list | harness_list | resource_type=secret, size=5 | items array |
| 19 | secret_get | harness_get | resource_type=secret, resource_id=<secret_id> | secret metadata |

### Create and Update operations
| 20 | pl_create | harness_create | resource_type=pipeline, body={ pipeline: { name, identifier, stages, ... } } | identifier returned |
| 21 | pl_update | harness_update | resource_type=pipeline, resource_id, body with description change | identifier returned |
| 22 | pl_delete | harness_delete | resource_type=pipeline, resource_id (cleanup) | deleted: true |
| 23 | env_create | harness_create | resource_type=environment, body={ environment: { ... } } | identifier returned |
| 24 | svc_create | harness_create | resource_type=service, body={ service: { ... } } | identifier returned |
| 25 | svc_update | harness_update | resource_type=service, resource_id, body with tags/description | success |
| 26 | conn_update | harness_update | resource_type=connector, resource_id, body with description | success |

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## Prompt and tool invocation per case

For each case, the **prompt** is the user request that would lead to this eval step; the **tool invocation** is the exact MCP call (tool name + arguments) used.

| # | ID | Prompt (user request) | Tool invocation |
|---|-----|------------------------|-----------------|
| 1 | pl_list | "List pipelines in the project." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "pipeline", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 2 | pl_get | "Get the pipeline nginx_multi_env_deployment." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "pipeline", resource_id: "nginx_multi_env_deployment" })` |
| 3 | pl_summary | "Get a summary of pipeline nginx_multi_env_deployment." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "pipeline_summary", resource_id: "nginx_multi_env_deployment" })` |
| 4 | exec_list | "List executions for pipeline calendar_app_ci." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "execution", pipeline_id: "calendar_app_ci", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 5 | exec_get | "Get execution zNv4pN6KSC-VMWd2Sfe4tQ." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "execution", resource_id: "zNv4pN6KSC-VMWd2Sfe4tQ" })` |
| 6 | trigger_list | "List triggers for pipeline nginx_multi_env_deployment." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "trigger", pipeline_id: "nginx_multi_env_deployment", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 7 | input_set_list | "List input sets for pipeline nginx_multi_env_deployment." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "input_set", pipeline_id: "nginx_multi_env_deployment", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 8 | repo_list | "List code repositories in the project." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "repository", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 9 | repo_get | "Get repository calendarapp." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "repository", resource_id: "calendarapp" })` |
| 10 | pr_list | "List pull requests for repo calendarapp." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "pull_request", repo_id: "calendarapp", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 11 | svc_list | "List services in the project." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "service", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 12 | svc_get | "Get the kubernetes service." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "service", resource_id: "kubernetes" })` |
| 13 | env_list | "List environments." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "environment", size: 10, compact: true })` |
| 14 | env_get | "Get the dev environment." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "environment", resource_id: "dev" })` |
| 15 | infra_list | "List infrastructure definitions for environment dev." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "infrastructure", environment_id: "dev", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 16 | conn_list | "List connectors." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "connector", size: 10, compact: true })` |
| 17 | conn_get | "Get connector ThisRohanGupta." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "connector", resource_id: "ThisRohanGupta" })` |
| 18 | secret_list | "List secrets." | `harness_list({ resource_type: "secret", size: 5, compact: true })` |
| 19 | secret_get | "Get secret docker-hub-token." | `harness_get({ resource_type: "secret", resource_id: "docker-hub-token" })` |
| 20 | pl_create | "Create a pipeline named Eval Pipeline with identifier eval_pl_eval and one deployment stage." | `harness_create({ resource_type: "pipeline", confirmation: true, body: { pipeline: { name: "Eval Pipeline", identifier: "eval_pl_eval", projectIdentifier: "PM_Signoff", orgIdentifier: "default", description: "Eval create test", tags: {}, stages: [ ... one Deployment stage ... ] } } })` |
| 21 | pl_update | "Update pipeline eval_pl_eval description to 'Eval update test'." | `harness_update({ resource_type: "pipeline", resource_id: "eval_pl_eval", confirmation: true, body: { pipeline: { ...same as create, description: "Eval update test" } } })` |
| 22 | pl_delete | "Delete pipeline eval_pl_eval." | `harness_delete({ resource_type: "pipeline", resource_id: "eval_pl_eval", confirmation: true })` |
| 23 | env_create | "Create an environment named Eval Env with identifier eval_env_eval." | `harness_create({ resource_type: "environment", confirmation: true, body: { environment: { name: "Eval Env", identifier: "eval_env_eval", description: "Eval create test", type: "PreProduction", orgIdentifier: "default", projectIdentifier: "PM_Signoff", tags: {} } } })` |
| 24 | svc_create | "Create a service named Eval Service with identifier eval_svc_eval." | `harness_create({ resource_type: "service", confirmation: true, body: { service: { name: "Eval Service", identifier: "eval_svc_eval", orgIdentifier: "default", projectIdentifier: "PM_Signoff", yaml: "service:\n  name: Eval Service\n  identifier: eval_svc_eval\n  ..." } } })` |
| 25 | svc_update | "Update service kubernetes to add tag eval: test." | `harness_update({ resource_type: "service", resource_id: "kubernetes", confirmation: true, body: { service: { ...full service from get, tags: { eval: "test" } } } })` |
| 26 | conn_update | "Update connector ThisRohanGupta description to 'Eval update test'." | `harness_update({ resource_type: "connector", resource_id: "ThisRohanGupta", confirmation: true, body: { connector: { ...full connector from get, description: "Eval update test" } } })` |

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## Results

**Project:** PM_Signoff (org: default)

### Run 4 (2025-02-25 re-run — latest)

All 26 cases executed via MCP tool calls. **25/26 (96%)**. List/Get (1–19), Pipeline create/update/delete (20–22), **env_create (23), svc_create (24), and svc_update (25) all passed.** Body-normalizer fixes are effective. Only **conn_update (26)** failed with a transient Harness server error: "Oops, something went wrong on our end" (not the previous connectionType/body error).

### Run 3 (2025-02-25 re-run after proposed fixes)

All 26 cases executed via MCP tool calls. **23/26 (88%)**. List/Get (1–19) and Pipeline create/update/delete (20–22) passed. **conn_update (26) passed.** env_create (23), svc_create (24), and svc_update (25) still failed — MCP server had not been restarted to pick up body-normalizer changes.

### Run 2 (2025-02-25 re-run)

All 26 cases executed. Outcomes match Run 1: **22/26 (85%)**. List/Get (1–19) and Pipeline create/update/delete (20–22) passed; environment create, service create/update, and connector update (23–26) failed with same API/body errors.

### Score Summary

| Run | Total | Passed | Failed | Score |
|-----|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| **Run 4** | 26 | 25 | 1 (26 — transient) | **25/26 (96%)** |
| Run 3 | 26 | 23 | 3 (23, 24, 25) | 23/26 (88%) |
| Run 2 | 26 | 22 | 4 (23–26) | 22/26 (85%) |

| Domain | Cases | Run 4 | Run 3 | Run 2 |
|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
| **Pipeline** | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| **Code** | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| **Service** | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| **Environment** | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| **Connectors** | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| **Secrets** | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| **Create/Update** | 7 | 6 (20–25; 26 transient fail) | 4 (20–22, 26) | 3 (20–22) |
| **Total** | **26** | **25** | **23** | **22** |

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### Per-Case Responses and Scores

| # | ID | Domain | Tool | Score | Result | Response summary |
|---|-----|--------|------|--------|--------|-------------------|
| 1 | pl_list | Pipeline | harness_list | 1 | Pass | items.length=5, total=50. |
| 2 | pl_get | Pipeline | harness_get | 1 | Pass | yamlPipeline + entityValidityDetails.valid=true. |
| 3 | pl_summary | Pipeline | harness_get | 1 | Pass | name, identifier, numOfStages=5, stageNames, filters. |
| 4 | exec_list | Pipeline | harness_list | 1 | Pass | items.length=5, total=6 (executions for pipeline). |
| 5 | exec_get | Pipeline | harness_get | 1 | Pass | pipelineExecutionSummary (planExecutionId, status=Failed, failureInfo). |
| 6 | trigger_list | Pipeline | harness_list | 1 | Pass | items=[], total=0 (no triggers for pipeline). |
| 7 | input_set_list | Pipeline | harness_list | 1 | Pass | items=[], total=0 (no input sets). |
| 8 | repo_list | Code | harness_list | 1 | Pass | 6 repos (Code API returns array; identifiers calendarapp, containerd, etc.). |
| 9 | repo_get | Code | harness_get | 1 | Pass | Repo calendarapp: identifier, default_branch=main, git_url. |
| 10 | pr_list | Code | harness_list | 1 | Pass | [] (no PRs in calendarapp). |
| 11 | svc_list | Service | harness_list | 1 | Pass | 5 items (compact). |
| 12 | svc_get | Service | harness_get | 1 | Pass | service kubernetes with yaml, serviceDefinition. |
| 13 | env_list | Environment | harness_list | 1 | Pass | 10 items. |
| 14 | env_get | Environment | harness_get | 1 | Pass | environment dev: type=PreProduction, storeType=REMOTE. |
| 15 | infra_list | Environment | harness_list | 1 | Pass | 3 infrastructure definitions for env dev. |
| 16 | conn_list | Connectors | harness_list | 1 | Pass | 12 connectors (e.g. ThisRohanGupta, k8s, harnessSecretManager). |
| 17 | conn_get | Connectors | harness_get | 1 | Pass | Connector ThisRohanGupta (Github), status=SUCCESS. |
| 18 | secret_list | Secrets | harness_list | 1 | Pass | 18 secrets (metadata only; value=null). |
| 19 | secret_get | Secrets | harness_get | 1 | Pass | Secret docker-hub-token metadata (value not exposed). |
| 20 | pl_create | Create/Update | harness_create | 1 | Pass | Created pipeline eval_pl_eval. |
| 21 | pl_update | Create/Update | harness_update | 1 | Pass | Updated pipeline description. |
| 22 | pl_delete | Create/Update | harness_delete | — | Cleanup | Deleted eval_pl_eval (not scored). |
| 23 | env_create | Create/Update | harness_create | 1 | Pass | Run 4: created eval_env_eval (body-normalizer fix). |
| 24 | svc_create | Create/Update | harness_create | 1 | Pass | Run 4: created eval_svc_eval (body-normalizer fix). |
| 25 | svc_update | Create/Update | harness_update | 1 | Pass | Run 4: kubernetes tags updated to eval: test (body-normalizer fix). |
| 26 | conn_update | Create/Update | harness_update | 0 | Fail | Run 4: transient Harness server error ("Oops, something went wrong"); Run 3 passed. |

### Run 4 summary

| # | ID | Result |
|---|-----|--------|
| 1–19 | (list/get) | All Pass |
| 20 | pl_create | Pass (created eval_pl_eval) |
| 21 | pl_update | Pass |
| 22 | pl_delete | Pass (cleanup) |
| 23 | env_create | **Pass** (created eval_env_eval) |
| 24 | svc_create | **Pass** (created eval_svc_eval) |
| 25 | svc_update | **Pass** (kubernetes tags updated) |
| 26 | conn_update | Fail (transient Harness server error) |

**Score Run 4:** 25/26 (96%). All body-normalizer fixes verified (23–25 pass). Only conn_update failed due to backend/transient error.

### Run 3 summary

| # | ID | Result |
|---|-----|--------|
| 1–19 | (list/get) | All Pass |
| 20 | pl_create | Pass (created eval_pl_eval) |
| 21 | pl_update | Pass |
| 22 | pl_delete | Pass (cleanup) |
| 23 | env_create | Fail (Unable to process JSON) |
| 24 | svc_create | Fail (identifier: cannot be empty) |
| 25 | svc_update | Fail (identifier: cannot be empty) |
| 26 | conn_update | **Pass** (description updated to "Eval update test") |

**Score Run 3:** 23/26 (88%). Connector update fix effective; env/service may need MCP server restart to pick up body-normalizer.

### Run 2 summary (re-run)

| # | ID | Result |
|---|-----|--------|
| 1–19 | (list/get) | All Pass |
| 20 | pl_create | Pass (created eval_pl_run2) |
| 21 | pl_update | Pass |
| 22 | pl_delete | Pass (cleanup) |
| 23 | env_create | Fail (Unable to process JSON) |
| 24 | svc_create | Fail (identifier: cannot be empty) |
| 25 | svc_update | Fail (identifier: cannot be empty) |
| 26 | conn_update | Fail (connectionType: must not be null) |

**Score Run 2:** 22/26 (85%) — unchanged from Run 1.

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### Notes

- **Pipeline:** trigger_list and input_set_list correctly return empty lists when none exist.
- **Code:** Repository list uses Code API format (array of repos, not `{ items, total }`). PR list returned empty array for repo with no open PRs.
- **Connector get:** Use project-level `resource_id` (e.g. `ThisRohanGupta`). Account-level IDs like `account.Rohan_Dockerhub` can fail path validation (invalid character).
- **Secrets:** List/get return metadata only; secret values are never exposed (value=null).
- **Service/Environment list:** Some list responses report `total: 0` while returning items (API quirk); items array is authoritative.

### Create/Update notes

- **Pipeline:** Create and update work with body `{ pipeline: { name, identifier, projectIdentifier, orgIdentifier, stages, ... } }`. Delete works for cleanup.
- **Service create/update:** Harness API returns "identifier: cannot be empty" when the request body shape does not match expectations (e.g. nested `service` wrapper or required fields). Body format may need to match the exact NG API schema (see apidocs.harness.io).
- **Environment create:** "Unable to process JSON" — ensure no null/undefined in body and correct wrapper key (`environment`).
- **Connector update:** "connectionType: must not be null" or "Unable to process JSON" — connector type-specific fields (e.g. `connectionType` for Git) must be present; omit nulls or use full connector object from get.

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## Proposed fixes (implemented)

To address the four failed evals (23–26), the following MCP changes were implemented:

| Case | ID | Root cause | Fix |
|------|-----|------------|-----|
| 23 | env_create | NG API expects environment entity at top level and rejects null/undefined in JSON. | **Environments toolset:** `bodyBuilder` for create/update now unwraps `body.environment` when present and strips null/undefined from the payload (`utils/body-normalizer.ts`: `unwrapBody`, `stripNulls`). |
| 24 | svc_create | API expects service entity at top level; identifier required. | **Services toolset:** Create `bodyBuilder` unwraps `body.service`, strips nulls, and returns the inner object. |
| 25 | svc_update | Same as svc_create; identifier must be present (e.g. from resource_id). | **Services toolset:** Update `bodyBuilder` unwraps `body.service`, sets `identifier` from `input.service_id` when missing, then strips nulls. |
| 26 | conn_update | Connector PUT requires `connectionType`; GET returns `type`. | **Connectors toolset:** Update `bodyBuilder` unwraps `body.connector`, sets `connectionType` from `type` when `connectionType` is null/undefined, then strips nulls. Create also unwraps and strips nulls for consistency. |

**Files changed**

- `src/utils/body-normalizer.ts` (new): `stripNulls()`, `unwrapBody()`.
- `src/registry/toolsets/environments.ts`: create/update use normalizer.
- `src/registry/toolsets/services.ts`: create/update use normalizer + identifier injection for update.
- `src/registry/toolsets/connectors.ts`: create/update use normalizer + connectionType fallback for update.

**Verification**

Run 4 confirmed: **env_create (23), svc_create (24), and svc_update (25) all pass** with the body-normalizer in effect. **conn_update (26)** passed in Run 3; in Run 4 it failed with a transient Harness server error ("Oops, something went wrong"), not a body/connectionType issue — safe to treat as backend flakiness and re-run 26 if needed.
