Feature-detect the server with get_agent_capabilities

Goal: discover this MCP server’s full tool surface and MIF conformance level at runtime, without hard-coding assumptions about which tools it exposes or whether it depends on host hooks.

Prerequisites

• None — the tool takes no parameters and makes no GitHub API call.

Steps

1. Call get_agent_capabilities with an empty input.

2. Read the response:

   {
     "tools": [
       "create_issue", "update_issue", "add_sub_issue", "list_sub_issues",
       "add_item_to_project", "set_field_value", "get_project_items",
       "create_milestone", "list_milestones", "assign_milestone",
       "create_discussion", "list_discussions",
       "format_mif_issue_body", "parse_mif_issue_body",
       "get_session_context", "get_agent_capabilities"
     ],
     "mifConformance": "L1",
     "hooksSupported": false
   }

Verify it worked

• tools lists all 16 tool names registered by this server — use it to confirm your MCP host sees the full surface rather than a subset.
• hooksSupported: false is a fixed, documented signal that this MCP layer never relies on host lifecycle hooks: on a host with no SessionStart hook, call get_session_context explicitly instead of assuming context was injected automatically, and validate MIF conformance yourself via parse_mif_issue_body rather than assuming a validate-mif hook already ran.

See also: tool reference.