Agent conventions
These rules apply to every tool. Each tool’s advertised description also states the rules relevant to it, so an agent sees them at call time, but this page collects them in one place.
userErrors means the write did not happen
A non-empty userErrors array is a successful tool result (isError absent or false)
reporting a domain rejection, not a crash. Read each entry’s field (an array of path segments,
for example ["input","name"]) and message, correct the input, then retry or ask the person.
{
"collection": null,
"userErrors": [
{ "field": ["input", "name"], "message": "has already been taken" }
]
} isError: true is reserved for authentication challenges, workspace-authorization misses,
argument-schema validation failures, rate-limit throttles, unknown tools, and redacted unexpected
server errors ("Tool execution failed").
Retry discipline
On a timeout or transport error where you can’t tell whether the write landed, read first with the
tool that verifies it, before retrying. Every write tool’s description names that read tool; a
delete is confirmed when the read returns null.
Tools annotated idempotentHint: true can be retried directly: a duplicate apply converges on the
same state.
Destructive tools
The delete* tools set annotations.destructiveHint: true. Their descriptions state what is
destroyed, what survives, and that the delete is irreversible. Confirm with the person, echoing the
entity ID back to them, before calling one.
Deleting a saved view or Collection never deletes content: the items survive and lose only that one tag or grouping. No other tool spends money or destroys creator data.
Async ingest
uploadItemFromUrl and refetchEngagementBulk are asynchronous. A success payload means the work
was enqueued, not that it finished. Poll the verify tool named in the description for the eventual
result, and don’t expect fresh data in the write response.
Concise responses
Every list read tool accepts responseFormat, either "detailed" (the default) or "concise".
Concise trims each item node to the fields an agent needs for listing, filtering, and ranking: ID,
originalUrl, provider, type, takenAt, caption, a minimal socialProfile, and
currentEngagement. On searchItems it also keeps creator { id }, the join key for
creator-level diffs such as differencing a campaign roster against that campaign’s posters;
matching on accountName is unsafe there because a workspace can hold two creator records sharing
a handle.
Prefer concise while you are narrowing a result set, and switch to detailed only when you need the fuller shape. Concise is materially cheaper in context, and the trimmed fields are a strict subset: nothing changes shape between the two modes.
Enum values
Every enum value is UPPERCASE. Item types encode the platform and the format together, which is
a common cause of empty result sets — and the value an item reads back as is not always a value you
can filter by. Core concepts explains why the
two enums differ.
View filters: clone, don’t compose
For content view, Social Profile view, and Creator View create and update, filters is an opaque
JSON blob that is not validated on write. Prefer cloning an existing view’s filters (fetch it
with the matching get* tool) over composing one from scratch.
Auditing
Every write emits exactly one structured audit event, whatever the outcome, carrying the principal
identity, the auth strategy, the MCP client name, the result, and any userErrors.