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refactor(core): Return text-only responses from string-payload MCP builder tools
The get_node_types, search_nodes, get_workflow_sdk_reference and
get_workflow_best_practices MCP tools mirrored their entire text payload
(multi-KB TypeScript definitions, SDK reference, docs) verbatim into
structuredContent, doubling the size of every response on the wire. The
structured envelope carried no additional semantics for these tools and
has no programmatic consumers, unlike the JSON-payload tools (e.g.
get_workflow_details, whose structuredContent the workflow-preview MCP
app depends on), which keep theirs.

Drop outputSchema and structuredContent from these four tools so the
text block is the single source of the payload. The n8nConnect coverage
block remains appended to the text as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gHjn1wM5srMwPexRpukJg
2026-07-31 13:33:20 +03:00
.agents/skills ci: Guard weekly minor release PR creation with a cadence check (#35165) 2026-07-31 06:46:42 +00:00
.claude chore: Change Write to Edit in Claude settings (#34428) 2026-07-27 10:20:09 +00:00
.devcontainer ci: Pin pnpm via packageManager and set PNPM_HOME (#31653) 2026-06-03 22:39:11 +00:00
.github feat(ai-builder): Let eval runs exercise the builder's web search (no-changelog) (#35274) 2026-07-31 07:31:10 +00:00
.opencode/skills/setup-mcps chore: Unify agent skill sources (no-changelog) (#30541) 2026-06-16 09:25:09 +00:00
.vscode fix(core): Force full execution data fetching for evaluation test runs (#27335) 2026-03-23 09:56:05 +00:00
assets ci: Revert path change for n8n-logo.png (#12874) 2025-01-28 08:49:33 +01:00
docker build: Bump base and n8n images to Node 24.18.0 (no-changelog) (#34337) 2026-07-17 08:45:32 +00:00
docs feat: Support inbound binary attachments for agents (no-changelog) (#34869) 2026-07-30 14:20:06 +00:00
packages refactor(core): Return text-only responses from string-payload MCP builder tools 2026-07-31 13:33:20 +03:00
patches fix(core): Harden axios error handling against non-string error stack (#35073) 2026-07-29 07:08:36 +00:00
scripts ci: Restrict Docker image strip to TypeScript declaration files (no-changelog) (#35248) 2026-07-30 12:46:50 +00:00
security chore: Standardize license metadata across all first-party packages and tighten SBOM pipeline (no-changelog) (#31880) 2026-06-08 10:19:32 +00:00
.actrc ci: Add blacksmith build step and cache restore (#19563) 2025-09-16 09:59:39 +01:00
.aikido chore: Add Aikido scan configuration (no-changelog) (#32195) 2026-06-15 07:26:04 +00:00
.boundaries-baseline.json refactor(editor): Move htmlUtils into new @n8n/frontend-utils package behind re-export shims (no-changelog) (#34355) 2026-07-20 10:02:40 +00:00
.code-health-baseline.json refactor: Remove @n8n/utils barrel export (no-changelog) (#33082) 2026-06-30 16:05:24 +03:00
.dockerignore chore(core): Add @n8n/engine HTTP server and harness (no-changelog) (#29913) 2026-05-08 14:08:11 +00:00
.editorconfig
.env.eval.example docs: Expand instance-ai eval-authoring skill with calibration learnings (#33844) 2026-07-09 09:07:55 +00:00
.env.local.example refactor: Remove persistBuilderSessions feature flag (#27481) 2026-03-30 12:16:07 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs
.gitattributes
.gitignore chore: Ignore .pi-subagents agent artifacts (no-changelog) (#35106) 2026-07-28 13:59:00 +00:00
.npmignore build: Update ESLint to v9 (#16639) 2025-06-27 10:42:47 +02:00
.npmrc chore: Remove shamefully-hoist (#32569) 2026-06-25 10:03:07 +00:00
.poutine.yml ci: Add MCP workflow evals CI (no-changelog) (#33019) 2026-06-26 08:53:01 +00:00
.prettierignore test: Remove cypress infrastracture (#21173) 2025-10-28 11:00:04 +01:00
.prettierrc.js
.tbls.postgres.yml chore(core): Make DB schema docs generation deterministic (#32373) 2026-06-16 11:35:33 +00:00
.tbls.sqlite.yml chore(core): Make DB schema docs generation deterministic (#32373) 2026-06-16 11:35:33 +00:00
AGENTS.md feat: Add @n8n/telemetry event registry with typed track() support (no-changelog) (#34662) 2026-07-23 16:09:54 +00:00
biome.jsonc feat(editor): Implements AI Assistant template examples experiment (no-changelog) (#33244) 2026-07-08 10:15:46 +00:00
CHANGELOG.md 🚀 Release 2.33.0 (#35054) 2026-07-28 07:15:34 +00:00
CLAUDE.md chore: Move to AGENTS.md file with agent instructions (#22227) 2025-11-25 12:41:53 +01:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
codecov.yml ci: Full nightly coverage report — unit + integration + E2E + Python merged into one lcov (no-changelog) (#31945) 2026-06-11 06:25:18 +00:00
CONTRIBUTING.md docs: Update community PR guidelines and align readiness-check skill (#34564) 2026-07-20 13:54:11 +00:00
CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.md
cubic.yaml chore: Add cubic review rule for the shared sleep utility (no-changelog) (#35126) 2026-07-29 07:25:07 +00:00
lefthook.yml test(core): Guard against private packages in the published runtime graph (#34889) 2026-07-27 07:01:43 +00:00
LICENSE_EE.md
LICENSE.md refactor(core): Mark all backend Enterprise Edition files and dirs (#12350) 2024-12-24 13:02:05 +01:00
package.json fix(core): Harden axios error handling against non-string error stack (#35073) 2026-07-29 07:08:36 +00:00
pnpm-lock.yaml feat(core): Add workflow SDK validation framework for Instance AI (#35045) 2026-07-30 15:18:11 +00:00
pnpm-workspace.yaml build(core): Upgrade agents to AI SDK 7 (#35072) 2026-07-28 16:13:00 +00:00
README.md docs: Update README with new product positioning (#33538) 2026-07-03 10:50:18 +00:00
renovate.json chore: Remove references to Jest (#33282) 2026-07-01 09:03:25 +00:00
SECURITY.md chore: Revise security vulnerability reporting instructions (#21432) 2025-10-31 13:30:50 +01:00
tsconfig.configs.json chore: Bundle/2.x (#33793) 2026-07-08 08:48:55 +03:00
tsconfig.json chore: Migrate all base packages to TypeScript 7 (#34338) 2026-07-17 12:56:29 +03:00
turbo.json build: Drop the ^typecheck dependency from the typecheck task (#35089) 2026-07-28 13:26:58 +00:00
vitest.workspace.ts chore: Update node popularity data (#24145) 2026-01-12 13:57:43 +00:00

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