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Third of three PRs splitting the original #867. Stacked on #867 (agent sessions), which is stacked on #875 (the reads lift).

Two read-only MCP tools over the Agent Sessions page's tool analytics:

  • get_agent_tools_overview — calls, sessions, failures and latency for the window against the previous one (error rate delta in percentage points), the share of sessions that used a tool, and the top-50 per-tool breakdown. With a tool selected, that tool's failure groups by error fingerprint with a trend whose bucket is derived from the window.
  • get_agent_tool_error — one failure group's sessions, variants, model × service breakdown and samples with their arguments and results. payload_chars is bounded by what the read retains (4 000), and a payload the read cut is marked as cut; samples_session narrows the samples alone. Each sample says whether its span was still there to read (retained, new on AiToolErrorOccurrence), so an empty argument is not reported as a lost span.

Both return text only (no __maple_ui mirror). Every free-text value from telemetry (tool descriptions, error messages, ids) is escaped before it lands in a table or a suggested command. Calls over time are a query_data/run_sql read over the same table, so the overview carries no series of its own.

Also adds the two rowSchemas the totals and breakdown queries lacked, so a gateway that quotes 64-bit integers decodes instead of throwing.

Test plan

  • bun run --cwd apps/ai test src/mcp (444)
  • bun run --cwd apps/api test src/routes/internal/ai-sessions.http.test.ts (49)
  • bun run --cwd packages/query-engine-integrations test src/ai/ai-tools.test.ts (34)
  • bunx oxlint, tsc --noEmit in apps/ai, packages/domain, packages/backend, packages/query-engine-integrations
  • Effect v4 review (4 reviewers), adversarial review, simplification pass; findings applied
  • CI (runs once the stack below it merges and this retargets to main)

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  • New Features
    • Added MCP tools for reviewing agent tool usage, failure trends, error groups, and failed-call samples.
    • Reports include time-window comparisons, per-tool breakdowns, model/service details, and payload availability.
    • Added clearer tool names, icons, and progress messages across the interface.
  • Documentation
    • Updated MCP guidance with instructions for investigating agent tool health.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved validation and formatting for analytics results, including limits, timestamps, trends, and retained payload indicators.

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Adds get_agent_tools_overview and get_agent_tool_error MCP tools. The change adds shared analytics and formatting helpers, warehouse row schemas, request validation, tool registration, integration tests, documentation, and product-surface metadata.

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Agent tool health

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Validation and warehouse contracts
packages/domain/src/http/ai-sessions.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/ai/*, packages/backend/src/services/ai-sessions/ai-session-reads.ts, apps/api/src/routes/internal/ai-sessions.http.test.ts
Shared selection and session limits are exported. Trend buckets use ISO-8601 UTC validation. Compiled row schemas validate totals and breakdown metrics. Warehouse reads use these schemas and report payload retention.
Shared analytics and formatting
apps/ai/src/mcp/lib/*, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/compare-periods.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/__evals__/fake-warehouse.ts
Adds selection mapping, fingerprint decoding, duration and timestamp rendering, pagination and trend compaction helpers, shared percentage formatting, fenced payload blocks, and related tests. compare-periods uses the shared delta formatter.
MCP tools and validation
apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tools-overview.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tool-error.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/agent-tools.test.ts
Registers both tools. The overview reports totals, comparisons, breakdowns, and failure-group trends. The error tool reports sessions, variants, breakdowns, samples, and payloads. Tests cover validation, pagination, empty data, trends, and payload limits.
Tool discovery and presentation
apps/ai/src/mcp/resources/instructions.ts, apps/landing/src/content/docs/mcp.md, apps/slack-agent/agent/lib/action-status.ts, apps/web/src/components/ai-elements/tool-metadata.ts
Documents the tools and adds their action phrases, labels, and icons.

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Change: Feature

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Two narrow issues remain in the new agent-tool-error report: a telemetry-derived tool name containing a backtick can distort the Markdown output, and the suggested follow-up command can mix one session's ID with another session's time window, potentially returning the wrong or no session data. Neither blocks core functionality, but both should be fixed before merge for a clean, reliable report.

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const sessionFilter = optionalText(params.session, SESSION_SELECTION_CHARS)
const samplesLimit = clampLimit(params.samples_limit, { defaultValue: 10, max: 100 })
const payloadChars = clampLimit(params.payload_chars, { defaultValue: 800, max: 10_000 })

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🟡 Payload limits exceed retained data

When payload_chars exceeds 4,000, the tool still accepts the larger limit. The payload read truncates every value at 4,000 characters, so callers never receive requested content.

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The warehouse payload query truncates both arguments and results to AI_TOOL_ERROR_PAYLOAD_MAX, currently 4,000 characters, before this handler receives them. Clipping the returned value to a larger MCP limit cannot recover the removed suffix. The published payload_chars description and the runtime ceiling therefore promise unavailable data.

Example: A 9,000-character argument with payload_chars: 8_000 reaches this handler as 4,000 characters. The response contains only those 4,000 characters despite accepting 8,000.

Recommended fix: Share AI_TOOL_ERROR_PAYLOAD_MAX across the query and MCP layers, then cap and document payload_chars at that value. Alternatively, raise the warehouse query's retention ceiling to match 10,000 after checking response-size bounds.

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detail.variants.map((row) => [
formatNumber(row.calls),
formatSeen(row.lastSeen),
truncate(row.message.replace(/\s+/g, " "), 200),
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🟡 Pipe characters corrupt analytics tables

When a captured label or message contains |, formatTable emits extra columns. Tool metadata remains unescaped, so agents misassociate values.

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Markdown uses | as a table-cell delimiter. These rows include captured telemetry such as failure messages, tool names, session IDs, agents, models, and services. The shared formatTable joins cells without escaping that delimiter, so one captured pipe changes the table structure.

Example: A failure message HTTP 500 | retry exhausted produces two message cells. Columns after it shift right, so calls or timestamps appear under the wrong headers.

Recommended fix: Escape pipe characters in every cell inside formatTable, rather than patching individual callers. Also normalize embedded newlines there so every row remains one Markdown line.

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const samplePayload = (text: string, chars: number, bytes: number): string =>
text === ""
? "(not available — the span was not retained)"
: `${clipText(text, chars)}\n(${formatNumber(bytes)} bytes total)`

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🟡 Empty payloads falsely report missing spans

When a retained span has empty arguments or results, samplePayload labels it unretained. Both states use "", so the response gives false retention guidance.

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A valid retained span can have no arguments or an empty result. The backend also fills every payload field with an empty string when the raw span is absent, so text alone cannot identify retention. The current renderer states that the span was not retained for both cases.

Example: A flush_cache tool call records arguments: "", argumentsBytes: 0, and a valid retained span. The MCP response says its span was not retained instead of showing an empty argument payload.

Recommended fix: Add an explicit payload-retention or payload-row-present flag to AiToolErrorOccurrence in readAiToolErrorSamples. Render “not retained” only when that flag is false; otherwise render the empty block and zero-byte size.

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Two read-only tools over the Agent Sessions page's tool analytics:

- get_agent_tools_overview: calls, sessions, failures and latency for the
  window against the previous one, the share of sessions that used a tool, and
  the top-50 per-tool breakdown. With a tool selected, that tool's failure
  groups by error fingerprint with a trend over the window.
- get_agent_tool_error: one failure group's sessions, variants, model x service
  breakdown and samples with their arguments and results.

Calls over time are a query_data/run_sql read over the same table, so the
overview carries no series of its own.
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In `@apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tool-error.ts`:
- Around line 147-149: Update the shared formatting used by
get-agent-tools-overview output to wrap telemetry-derived tool names and
generated commands with a delimiter longer than any backtick run in the value.
Apply this formatter consistently to tableCell(tool), the no-failures message,
and formatNextSteps commands, and add a rendering test covering a tool name
containing backticks.
- Line 253: Update the get_agent_session reference in the error-reporting output
to append sessionBounds only when firstSession.sessionId matches the session ID
associated with firstSample; otherwise omit the bounds while always retaining
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`No failed calls of \`${tableCell(tool)}\` under this fingerprint in the window.`,
formatNextSteps([
`\`get_agent_tools_overview tool=${JSON.stringify(tool)}\` — the groups that exist in this window (a fingerprint is only visible while its failures are in range)`,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a dynamic inline-code delimiter for telemetry-derived tool names.

A backtick in tool closes the fixed Markdown span. Additional Markdown in the tool name can then render as prose or formatting, and the displayed command becomes malformed. This is an output-correctness issue, not a security-boundary violation.

Add a shared inline-code formatter that uses a delimiter longer than every backtick run. Use it for the tool name and each generated command. Add a rendering test with a backtick-containing tool name.

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In `@apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tool-error.ts` around lines 147 - 149, Update
the shared formatting used by get-agent-tools-overview output to wrap
telemetry-derived tool names and generated commands with a delimiter longer than
any backtick run in the value. Apply this formatter consistently to
tableCell(tool), the no-failures message, and formatNextSteps commands, and add
a rendering test covering a tool name containing backticks.

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...(firstSession === undefined
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`\`get_agent_session session_id=${JSON.stringify(firstSession.sessionId)}${sessionBounds}\` — the session that hit this group most`,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not attach sample bounds to a different session.

firstSession is ordered by hit count, while firstSample is the newest sample. samples_session filters only the sample query. Therefore their session IDs can differ. get_agent_session then applies firstSample’s time bounds to firstSession, which can omit the relevant spans.

Keep firstSession.sessionId and omit the bounds when the IDs differ:

Proposed guard
 const sessionBounds =
-	firstSample === undefined
+	firstSample === undefined || firstSample.sessionId !== firstSession?.sessionId
 		? ""
 		: ` ${windowHint({ startTime: firstSample.timestamp, endTime: firstSample.timestamp })}`
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`\`get_agent_session session_id=${JSON.stringify(firstSession.sessionId)}${sessionBounds}\` — the session that hit this group most`,
const sessionBounds =
firstSample === undefined || firstSample.sessionId !== firstSession?.sessionId
? ""
: ` ${windowHint({ startTime: firstSample.timestamp, endTime: firstSample.timestamp })}`
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In `@apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/get-agent-tool-error.ts` at line 253, Update the
get_agent_session reference in the error-reporting output to append
sessionBounds only when firstSession.sessionId matches the session ID associated
with firstSample; otherwise omit the bounds while always retaining
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