Dynamically Manage MCP Tool Groups

MCP Dynamic Tool Groups

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) includes support for tools, allowing AI models to a) Get metadata (descriptions) of tool input and output; b) Provide input, call/take action and c) get output via the use of one or more of the available tools.

In this example application the com.composent.ai.mcp.examples.toolgroup.api project declares a ExampleToolGroup interface class, with McpTool and McpToolGroup metadata:

@McpToolGroup(description="Arithmetic operations exposed as mcp tools")
public interface ExampleToolGroup {

	@McpTool(description = "computes the sum of the two double precision input arguments a and b")
	double add(@McpToolParam(description = "x is the first argument") double x,
			@McpToolParam(description = "y is the second argument") double y);

	@McpTool(description = "return the product of the two given double precision arguments named a and b")
	double multiply(@McpToolParam(description = "x is the first argument") double x,
			@McpToolParam(description = "y is the second argument") double y);

	@McpTool(description = "return asynchronously the sum of the two double precision input arguments a and b")
	Mono<Double> asyncAdd(@McpToolParam(description = "x is the first argument") double x,
			@McpToolParam(description = "y is the second argument") double y);

	@McpTool(description = "return asynchronously the product of the two given double precision arguments named a and b")
	Mono<Double> asyncMultiply(@McpToolParam(description = "x is the first argument") double x,
			@McpToolParam(description = "y is the second argument") double y);
}

Each method is annotated with the @McpTool and @McpToolParam annotations from the mcp_annotations_java project. There are both synchronous mcp server methods (add, multiply) and asynchronous mcp server methods (asyncAdd and asyncMultiply).

Notice also the use of @McpToolGroup annotation for the ExampleToolGroup class along with the parent package. This shows the static creation of a hierarchical relationship between the top-level toolgroup (package), and a child toolgroup (class) with two tools (add and multiply) as leaves of this simple toolgroup tree.

Here is an OSGi component implementing the ExampleToolGroup interface.

public class ToolGroupComponent implements ExampleToolGroup {

	private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ToolGroupComponent.class);

	// This reference will wait for the SyncToolGroupServerComponent
	// to be activated
	@Reference
	private SyncToolGroupServerComponent syncServer;
	// This reference will wait for the AsyncToolGroupServerComponent
	// to be activated
	@Reference
	private AsyncToolgroupServerComponent asyncServer;

	@Activate
	void activate() {
		// Add to syncServer
		syncServer.addToolGroups(this, ExampleToolGroup.class);
		// Add to asyncServer
		asyncServer.addToolGroups(this, ExampleToolGroup.class);
	}

	@Override
	public double add(double x, double y) {
		logger.debug("Adding x={} y={}", x, y);
		return x + y;
	}

	@Override
	public double multiply(double x, double y) {
		logger.debug("Multiplying x={} y={}", x, y);
		return x * y;
	}

	@Override
	public Mono<Double> asyncAdd(double x, double y) {
		logger.debug("Async Adding x={} y={}", x, y);
		return Mono.just(add(x, y));
	}

	@Override
	public Mono<Double> asyncMultiply(double x, double y) {
		logger.debug("Async Multiplying x={} y={}", x, y);
		return Mono.just(multiply(x, y));
	}

}

The ExampleToolGroup tools are processed and added to the appropriate (sync or async) server at runtime with this line:

		syncServer.addToolGroups(this, ExampleToolGroup.class);