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A parameter's type is not what it means. queries is list[str] either way; only the prose says 1–4 of them. Native tool calling ships that prose in every request's tools[] array — we shipped none of it: toolSpec projected each parameter to {name, type, required} and dropped description at the host, and the tool's own description survived only as the function's __doc__. So the block showed types and nothing else.

This carries both, in the shape a Python reader expects — one parameter per line with its description as a trailing comment, the tool's own as a docstring:

async def read(
    *,
    file_path: str,  # Path to read, resolved by the filesystem backend.
    offset: float = ...,  # 1-based first line to return. Defaults to 1.
    limit: float = ...,  # Maximum number of lines to return. Defaults to 2000.
) -> ReadOutput:
    """Read a UTF-8 text file and return line-numbered content."""

MCP tools keep their comment form, since only mcp is bound at the top level, and are commented line by line:

# mcp.exa.web_search_exa(
#     *,
#     query: str,  # Natural language search query. Should be a semantically rich description of the ideal page…
#     numResults: float = ...,  # Number of search results to return (default: 10).
# ) -> str:
#     """Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content."""

The same prose also reaches read? as a Parameters: section, so the runtime view is not the poorer of the two — same source, so they cannot drift.

dsh-py-codeact/lib/index.js

Lines 305 to 327 in ea5cbc1

// Escaped for the block to stay COMPILABLE, which matters more here than fidelity: one description carrying a `\"\"\"` or ending in a backslash would close its own docstring and take every tool below it with it — the failure class where one tool invalidates the whole block. Neither appears in a live catalogue; a future MCP server is not bound by that.
const docstring = (doc) => {
if (!doc) return [' ...']
const text = doc.trim().replaceAll('\\', '\\\\').replaceAll('"""', '\\"\\"\\"')
const lines = text.split('\n')
return lines.length === 1 ? [` """${lines[0]}"""`] : [' """', ...lines.map((line) => ` ${line}`.trimEnd()), ' """']
}
// A `#` comment cannot span lines, so a description that carries newlines is collapsed rather than emitted: left alone its second line parses as code.
const trailing = (doc) => (doc ? ` # ${doc.trim().replace(/\s*\n\s*/g, ' ')}` : '')
/** @returns the lines to emit, and — separately — the type expressions they spell, which is what the `typing` import is derived from. Kept apart because prose is now emitted too: a description mentioning "Any file" must not import `Any`. */
const signature = (spec) => {
const body = docstring(spec.doc)
// The same rule applies one level down, and used to not be applied at all: `file-path` is routine for MCP tools, and one such PARAMETER made every other tool's signature unusable too. The binding still takes it — the kernel folds unnameable parameters into `**kwargs` — so the tool stays importable and only its signature goes vague; `name?` still shows the real one.
if (!spec.params.every((p) => isUsableName(p.name))) {
return { lines: [`async def ${spec.name}(**kwargs: Any) -> ${spec.returns}: # not every parameter name can be spelled here; see ${spec.name}?`, ...body], types: ['Any', spec.returns] }
}
const types = [spec.returns, ...spec.params.map((p) => p.type)]
// `async def f(*, ) -> T` is still a SyntaxError, which is why a parameterless tool emits no `*`.
if (spec.params.length === 0) return { lines: [`async def ${spec.name}() -> ${spec.returns}:`, ...body], types }
// One parameter per line, so each can carry what it MEANS beside what it is: `queries` is `list[str]` either way, and only the comment says 1–4 of them.
const fields = spec.params.map((p) => ` ${p.name}: ${p.type}${p.required ? '' : ' = ...'},${trailing(p.doc)}`)
return { lines: [`async def ${spec.name}(`, ' *,', ...fields, `) -> ${spec.returns}:`, ...body], types }
}

What it costs

The block is re-read every turn, so the number matters. Measured on the live headless catalogue, 33 tools:

chars
old one-line form 14977
new form, neither description 15433 — the multi-line syntax itself is +456
new form, parameter comments only 22921 — comments +7488
new form, docstrings only 36145 — docstrings +20712
new form, both (this PR) 43633+28656 total, 2.91×

For comparison, dsh's own Code Mode renders the same catalogue at 44446 characters with descriptions and 24569 without, so this is in line with the harness's own choice rather than an outlier. Either half can be dropped on its own if the trade is not worth it — they are independent, one line each.

Two ways prose breaks a program

Prose in the block is no longer content, it is syntax, and both hazards are guarded and tested.

A # comment cannot span lines, so a description carrying newlines is collapsed onto one line; emitted as-is its second line parses as code. And a description containing """ or ending in a backslash would close its own docstring and take every tool below it down — the failure class #12 was, where one tool invalidates the whole block. Neither shape appears in a live catalogue; a future MCP server is not bound by that, so both are escaped rather than trusted.

The typing import is now derived from the type expressions the render actually spells, kept separately from the lines, rather than by regex over the emitted text. With prose in those lines, a description mentioning "Any file" would otherwise import Any.

Verification

Six assertions added or rewritten, 115 total, all pass. Each mutation-checked by reverting the exact line it guards:

mutation fails
kernel stops appending the Parameters: section each description lands under the parameter it belongs to
host stops passing doc the host is what puts it there, straight off the schema
drop the docstring escaping a triple quote or trailing backslash costs fidelity, never the block
stop collapsing newlines in a comment and the block carries it too, beside the parameter and as the docstring

Note

Two gaps the mutation check found, neither visible from a green suite. First, the kernel test built its specs by hand, so removing doc: node?.description from the host changed nothing. Second, no fixture carried a parameter description with a newline in it, so the collapsing was unguarded — the rendered block is a program did not catch it either, because its fixture has no prose. Both assertions exist because of that, not alongside it.

One earlier assertion was inverted, not fixed: and none of it reaches the block the model reads every turn guarded the opposite contract, when the descriptions were deliberately kept off the prompt. That decision was reversed here, so the guard now asserts they arrive, attributed to the right parameter and in the right shape.

Warning

A rebind builds new callables, so a name already pulled out with from __dsh__.tools import read keeps the docstring it was imported with — raised by Sourcery, reproduced, and true of the signature and return annotation too, ever since bindings existed. __dsh__.tools.read? is the authoritative view after a schema revision. Not changed here: refreshing would mean a rebind reaching into the model's own namespace, the very hazard _handle is written around.

Gates: node test/smoke.js, uvx ruff check py/, TY_UV=scripts uvx ty check py/kernel.py — all clean. README updated where it said the block carries signatures only.

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变更摘要

  • 为工具参数增加描述,并通过 specs 从 host 传递到 kernel。
  • 生成的 Python 签名改为每行一个参数,并以尾随注释显示参数描述;工具描述改为函数 docstring。
  • name? 新增 Parameters: 区段,并复用生成签名的数据。
  • 转义并规范化多行注释、三引号和尾随反斜杠,确保生成代码有效。
  • 根据实际类型表达式推导 typing 导入,避免描述文本影响导入。
  • MCP 工具继续使用注释形式,并支持连字符名称的安全折叠与冲突隔离。
  • 重新绑定工具时生成新函数;已导入的旧绑定保留原文档和签名。
  • 更新 README 和测试,覆盖描述传播、参数关联、格式化、转义、MCP 名称折叠及生成代码有效性。
  • 所有 115 个测试及 Node、Ruff、ty 验证门均已通过。

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本次改动为工具参数增加描述,并更新 Python 签名、函数文档、MCP 注释路径和名称折叠访问。测试与 README 示例同步更新。

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工具描述与 MCP 访问

Layer / File(s) Summary
参数描述与签名生成
lib/index.js
工具规格传递参数描述。渲染结果改为多行 Python 签名,并生成参数注释、docstring 和 MCP 模块化路径。
绑定文档与重新绑定
py/kernel.py, test/smoke.js
工具绑定追加 Parameters 文档。参数描述变化时更新 specsKey 并创建新绑定。
MCP 名称折叠与输出验证
test/smoke.js, README.md
测试覆盖连字符工具名和服务器名的折叠、冲突、原始路径及关键字场景,并更新多行签名、类型渲染、参数文档和特殊字符测试。README 同步更新 MCP 示例和名称访问说明。

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 56986

The PR adds parameter descriptions and tool documentation to generated code and runtime help. It is mergeable with owner awareness, but same-server name collisions and certain carriage-return characters could still produce misleading or invalid generated calls.

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+    # The block renders each parameter's TYPE but not its prose — the host keeps the description off the prompt because a real catalogue carries ~6.8 KB of it, re-sent every turn for the one parameter a cell touches. It lands here instead, where `read?` reaches it and where the block already sends the model for a tool's own description.
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**issue (broader_impact):** 当某个单元格通过 `from __dsh__.tools import read` 导入工具后,架构发生修订时,重新绑定会替换 `__dsh__.tools` 中的函数,但不会更新 shell 命名空间中现有的 `read` 名称。因此,`read?` 会继续显示旧的参数描述,所声称的架构修订刷新无法传达到通常的导入绑定。

**触发条件:** 在 MCP 重新连接或架构修订更改某个参数描述之前,工具已被导入。

**建议修复:** 在重新绑定时更新或使现有 shell 别名失效,或者明确说明调用方必须在架构发生变化后重新导入工具。
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**Triggers:** When a tool is imported before an MCP reconnect or schema revision changes one of its parameter descriptions.

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334-334: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

规范化参数描述中的单独 CR。

trailing() 不会替换单独的 \r。Python 会将它视为换行,因此描述剩余内容会离开 # 注释并使生成的签名无效。请同时规范化 \r\n\r\n

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换行符,将其统一为空格后再生成行尾注释,确保多行参数描述始终保留在 # 注释中。

321-321: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

保留工具名折叠冲突的 getattr 路径。

当同一服务器同时有 a-ba_b 时,Line 372 会为两者渲染 mcp.srv.a_b,但内核只将该属性绑定到原始 a_b。Line 321 也不会提示 a-bgetattr 回退路径。仅当折叠名称未被另一个原始工具占用时渲染签名,并为冲突工具保留 oddMcp 路径和回归测试。

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更新工具筛选及签名渲染逻辑,检测折叠后的工具名是否与同一服务器上的另一个原始工具名冲突;仅在未被占用时渲染签名,冲突工具保留 oddMcp 的 getattr
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- Line 334: 更新 trailing 函数中的描述规范化逻辑,同时处理 CRLF、单独 CR 和 LF
换行符,将其统一为空格后再生成行尾注释,确保多行参数描述始终保留在 # 注释中。
- Line 321: 更新工具筛选及签名渲染逻辑,检测折叠后的工具名是否与同一服务器上的另一个原始工具名冲突;仅在未被占用时渲染签名,冲突工具保留
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