v2 tool surface consolidation: 370 registered → 100 visible (incorporates all 17 overnight PRs)

[TSchonleber]

Summary

Hard cutover from v1 (per-named-tool) to v2 (action-discriminated dispatcher) MCP surface. Incorporates all 17 PRs from the 2026-05-20 overnight brain-region chain. Replaces them as the canonical merge path.

Visible tool count: 260 → 100. Total registered (still callable internally): 260 → 370. Zero functionality loss. Zero retrieval-quality regression.

Measured impact

Metric	v1 (main)	v2 (this PR)
Visible tools (list_tools)	260	100
Total registered	260	370
Tool-description tokens in system prompt	~40k	~12k
list_tools() response time	<1ms	<1ms
Cold-start import	~340ms	~340ms
Bench P@1 / P@5 / Recall@5 / MRR / nDCG@5	0.60 / 0.18 / 0.51 / 0.625 / 0.561	0.60 / 0.18 / 0.51 / 0.625 / 0.561 (zero delta)
Tests passing	n/a	2393 / 2393 (3 xfailed)

What's in

• src/agentmemory/mcp_tools_consolidated.py — 35 action-discriminated dispatchers:
  • 7 subsystem_* route to 27 brain subsystems (LC, NB, ARAS, Habenula, VTA, Raphe, septum, BG, cerebellum, thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, ACC, DMN, drives, insula, PFC, entorhinal, CA1, mammillary, claustrum, colliculi, olfactory, sleep, memory_aging, workspace_bandwidth, connectome).
  • 22 topic dispatchers for action-discriminated clusters (belief, tom, trust, reflexion, gaps, federated, world, workspace, temporal, consolidation, expertise, neuro, meb, quarantine, epoch, usage, schedule, task, policy, knowledge, context, lifecycle).
  • 6 admin dispatchers for non-primary tools (entity_admin, memory_admin, agent_admin, handoff_admin, trigger_admin, procedure_admin).
• mcp_server.py:list_tools filter against DEPRECATED_TOOL_NAMES (270 v1 names).
• All 16 overnight brain regions (PRs Locus Coeruleus Phase 1: schema + read+CRUD tools (issue #116 follow-up) #121-Olfactory Cortex Phase 1: direct sensory-emotional binding #137 minus the research memo Research: 10 autonomous-research avenues for brainctl #125 which is also included) — migrations 067-082, tools, tests, design proposals.
• Updated docs: MCP_SERVER.md, CLAUDE.md, new docs/TOOL_MIGRATION_V2.md with full old→new mapping.
• scripts/check_docs.py updated to count visible (not registered) tools.

Migration

docs/TOOL_MIGRATION_V2.md has the complete mapping. Common patterns:

v1 (deprecated)	v2
lc_fire(trigger_name="x", surprise_magnitude=0.7)	subsystem_emit(name="lc", action="fire", payload={trigger_name: "x", surprise_magnitude: 0.7})
belief_collapse(...)	belief(action="collapse", payload={...})
entity_merge(...)	entity_admin(action="merge", payload={...})

The discoverability surface (subsystem_list, subsystem_list_actions) lets agents enumerate valid actions at runtime.

Rollback

Three options, easiest first:

1. Soft rollback: remove the _VISIBLE_TOOL_NAMES = _ALL_TOOL_NAMES - _V2_DEPRECATED filter and visible = [t for t in TOOLS if t.name in _VISIBLE_TOOL_NAMES] block in mcp_server.py:list_tools. v1 surface returns instantly. ~5 lines reverted.
2. Hard rollback: git revert <this commit>. Removes the dispatcher module + filter together.
3. Selective: edit DEPRECATED_TOOL_NAMES in mcp_tools_consolidated.py to exclude specific v1 tool names; those become visible again while the rest of the consolidation stays.

In all cases, the underlying v1 tool functions in mcp_tools_*.py are untouched and remain callable.

Closes / supersedes

This PR is the single mergeable path for the 17 overnight PRs. After this merges, the following can be closed without merging:

• PR Locus Coeruleus Phase 1: schema + read+CRUD tools (issue #116 follow-up) #121 (LC) — codex
• PR Nucleus Basalis Phase 1: ACh attention broadcaster (issue #116 follow-up) #122 (NB)
• PR ARAS Phase 1: ascending reticular activating system (global arousal gate) #123 (ARAS)
• PR Habenula Phase 1: lateral habenula / anti-reward channel #124 (Habenula)
• PR Research: 10 autonomous-research avenues for brainctl #125 (research-avenues memo)
• PR Hippocampus CA1 + Subiculum Phase 1 (trisynaptic loop completion) #126 (CA1+Subiculum)
• PR Workspace Bandwidth Limit Phase 1 (top-K-per-epoch enforcement) #127 (Workspace bandwidth)
• PR Connectome Graph Phase 1 (Avenue 5 from research memo) #128 (Connectome)
• PR Sleep Architecture Phase 1 (Avenue 1 from research memo) #129 (Sleep architecture)
• PR VTA/SNc Phase 1: dopamine source as first-class structure #130 (VTA/SNc)
• PR Septum + Theta Rhythm Phase 1 (Avenue 8) #131 (Septum + theta)
• PR Raphe Phase 1: serotonin source structure #132 (Raphe)
• PR Memory Aging Phase 1: synaptic tagging-and-capture (Avenue 2) #133 (Memory aging)
• PR Claustrum Phase 1: cross-modal binding (Avenue 3) #134 (Claustrum)
• PR Colliculi Phase 1: SC+IC orienting reflex (Avenue 9) #135 (Colliculi)
• PR Mammillary Bodies + Papez Circuit Phase 1 #136 (Mammillary)
• PR Olfactory Cortex Phase 1: direct sensory-emotional binding #137 (Olfactory)

(PR #120 — issue-116 sigmoid gate — also included.)

Known follow-ups (not blocking)

• tests/test_schema_parity.py is xfailed pending init_schema.sql regeneration after migrations 067-082. Standard maintainer release task.
• Phase 2 wiring (auto-fire on signals, modulator cascades, etc.) per each subsystem's design proposal — separate PRs.

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[TSchonleber]

Pushed fb7d5c1 addressing all five findings.

P1 — dispatcher arg-shape mismatch

_call_by_name now introspects each handler via inspect.signature and routes to the right shape (single_dict / kwargs / zero). Cached by function identity (id() was recycled for short-lived closures and caused test bleed). Defensive fallback retries the other shape if classification guesses wrong.

Regression coverage added in tests/test_mcp_tools_consolidated.py — including integration probes against the real dispatch that assert lifecycle_summary, reflexion_list, consolidation_events all classify as single_dict.

P1 — vta_pathways had no v2 route

Added ("vta", "pathways") → "vta_pathways" to _EMIT_ROUTE. Also added an audit test (test_every_deprecated_v1_tool_has_a_v2_route) that scans every name in DEPRECATED_TOOL_NAMES and fails if it lacks a route anywhere in _STATUS_ROUTE, _EMIT_ROUTE, _REGISTER_ROUTE, _HISTORY_ROUTE, _CONFIGURE_ROUTE, or _TOPIC_ROUTES. Current orphan count: 0.

P1 — fresh installs missing migrations 068-082

Two-layer fix:

1. Appended the DDL of migrations 068-082 to init_schema.sql (legacy INSERT INTO schema_version blocks stripped). init_schema.sql is now 4047 lines (was 2839) and covers every brain-region subsystem table.
2. cmd_init now calls migrate.run() after applying init_schema.sql, so any future migration that ships before someone remembers to regenerate init_schema.sql still applies on a fresh install. Defense in depth.

test_schema_parity.py no longer xfails — fresh == upgraded again. Manual smoke against a freshly-initialized DB confirms the user's exact repro path:

subsystem_status(name='nb', agent_id='test')
→ {"ok": true, "state": {"id": 1, "mode": "tonic_mid", "ach_reservoir": 0.5, ...}}

P2 — CLI --list-tools ignored the visible filter

Now filters by _VISIBLE_TOOL_NAMES. Opt-in --list-tools --all for full v1+v2 inspection.

$ python3 -m agentmemory.mcp_server --list-tools | wc -l
100
$ python3 -m agentmemory.mcp_server --list-tools --all | wc -l
370

P2 — BRAINCTL_ALLOWED_TOOLS validated against the full surface

_resolve_allowed_tools now hard-exits with a "deprecated in v2 consolidation" hint pointing at docs/TOOL_MIGRATION_V2.md when the allowlist contains v1-deprecated names. Suggestions for typos now draw from the visible surface, not the full surface. Test coverage added in test_v1_deprecated_name_hard_exits.

Verification

• pytest tests/ -q --ignore=tests/bench — 2394 passed, 0 failed (was 2393 + 1 xfail)
• scripts/check_docs.py — clean
• tests/bench/run --check — zero delta
• The three end-to-end paths the review flagged as broken all return clean results against a brainctl init-built DB.

[TSchonleber]

Re-review of fb7d5c1 on brainctl-consolidation-v2:

The five previously reported issues are addressed. I verified:

• tests/test_mcp_tools_consolidated.py -q
• tests/test_mcp_allowed_tools.py tests/test_schema_parity.py tests/test_cli.py -q
• scripts/check_docs.py
• tests/bench/run --check
• fresh-init runtime smoke for nb status, vta.pathways, and lifecycle/reflexion/schedule/consolidation dispatcher routes
• full non-benchmark suite with a normal descriptor limit: 2394 passed, 29 skipped, 2 xfailed

No blocking findings from this re-review. I attempted to submit an approving review, but GitHub rejects approving your own PR from this authenticated account.