{
"_comment": [
"MCP tool call examples — these show the JSON-RPC messages an MCP client sends.",
"You don't construct these manually; your agent's MCP client handles the protocol.",
"These examples illustrate what happens under the hood when an agent calls patchloom tools."
],
"examples": [
{
"description": "Set a config value (preserves YAML comments)",
"tool": "doc_set",
"arguments": {
"path": "config.yaml",
"selector": "database.port",
"value": 5433
}
},
{
"description": "Search for a multi-line function signature",
"tool": "search_files",
"arguments": {
"paths": ["src/cmd"],
"pattern": "async fn search_files\\(.*?\\{",
"multiline": true,
"context": 1
}
},
{
"description": "Rename a file",
"tool": "move_file",
"arguments": {
"from": "old_config.json",
"to": "config.json"
}
},
{
"description": "Append a row to a markdown table",
"tool": "md_table_append",
"arguments": {
"path": "README.md",
"heading": "## API Endpoints",
"row": "| `/api/v2/users` | List users (paginated) |"
}
},
{
"description": "Replace a version string across multiple files atomically",
"tool": "batch_replace",
"arguments": {
"files": ["Cargo.toml", "README.md", "docs/install.md"],
"from": "0.1.0",
"to": "0.2.0"
}
},
{
"description": "Fix whitespace in multiple source files",
"tool": "batch_tidy",
"arguments": {
"files": ["src/main.rs", "src/lib.rs", "tests/integration.rs"]
}
}
]
}