Instruct clients to prefer MCP #161
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Clients may be influenced by things like instructions for running tests in `README.md` and then decided to run `dart test` in a shell instead of using the `run_tests` MCP tool. If we are providing a MCP version of a tool it may be tailored to the LLM client use case and so should be preferred. Add a server level instruction.
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Some clients seems to use MCP more reliably than others, this instruction makes it more consistent. |
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| * Instruct clients to prefer MCP tools over running tools in the shell. |
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This can actually move into the below version, I plan to do a roll soon so it will make it into the 3.8 SDK.
The versions here are weird since its not actually published but I did want some sort of changelog.
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Revisions updated by `dart tools/rev_sdk_deps.dart`. ai (https://github.com/dart-lang/ai/compare/1d9d60c..f2b48c6): f2b48c6 2025-06-09 Nate Bosch Retain compatibility with 3.7 SDKs (dart-lang/ai#163) 52adf08 2025-06-06 Jacob MacDonald add homepage, repository, and documentation links to the pub result (dart-lang/ai#155) fa1c2be 2025-06-06 Nate Bosch Always use the failures-only reporter for testing (dart-lang/ai#160) 66a152f 2025-06-06 Nate Bosch Instruct clients to prefer MCP (dart-lang/ai#161) 55ad850 2025-06-05 Jacob MacDonald Add a retroactive changelog (dart-lang/ai#157) b08a610 2025-06-05 Jacob MacDonald Update instructions, add cursor install link (dart-lang/ai#159) web (https://github.com/dart-lang/web/compare/f1becf0..de6b3e4): de6b3e4 2025-06-06 Srujan Gaddam Add missing copyrights and delete empty files (dart-lang/web#371) 74a33ba 2025-06-06 Kevin Moore Add in a missing library directive, missing new line (dart-lang/web#370) 4d24eb5 2025-06-06 nikeokoronkwo [web_generator] Setting up `web_generator` for Dart JS Interop Gen (dart-lang/web#368) webdev (https://github.com/dart-lang/webdev/compare/55941b0..661dafd): 661dafd4 2025-06-08 Srujan Gaddam Defer execution of main until resume for hot restart with DDC library bundle format (dart-lang/webdev#2623) 01a3b9d7 2025-06-06 Nicholas Shahan Remove skip from chrome proxy service test Change-Id: If3d4326d0bacf47a4d95520dbd0aac5fb58de439 Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/433363 Commit-Queue: Devon Carew <devoncarew@google.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
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Clients may be influenced by things like instructions for running
tests in
README.mdand then decided to rundart testin a shellinstead of using the
run_testsMCP tool. If we are providing a MCPversion of a tool it may be tailored to the LLM client use case and so
should be preferred. Add a server level instruction.