Perl Requires Chilkat v11.6.0+

List the Tools Offered by an MCP Server

Demonstrates Mcp.ListTools, which calls the MCP tools/list method and places the server's result (a tools array describing each tool and its input schema) into a JsonObject.

Tip: Code to parse the returned JSON can be generated with Chilkat's online tool at https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse.

Background. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets a client interact with a server's tools, resources, and prompts over a standard JSON-RPC interface. This example connects to the public, no-authentication Microsoft Learn MCP server at https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp over Streamable HTTP.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$mcp = chilkat::CkMcp->new();

#  Connect to a public MCP (Model Context Protocol) server over its Streamable HTTP endpoint.  The
#  Microsoft Learn MCP server is public and requires no authentication.
$success = $mcp->Connect("https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mcp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Call the MCP tools/list method.  On success, the server's result object -- containing a "tools"
#  array describing each available tool and its input schema -- is placed in the JsonObject.
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $mcp->ListTools($json);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mcp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";
#  JSON parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
#  https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse