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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$mcp = New-Object Chilkat.Mcp

#  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 -eq $false) {
    $($mcp.LastErrorText)
    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 = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $mcp.ListTools($json)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($mcp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$json.EmitCompact = $false
$($json.Emit())
#  JSON parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
#  https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse