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Replaces #256, at Raghav's request: this PR carries his four commits plus one follow-up, and merges straight to main.

Adds an MCP tools reference (overview/mcp/tools.mdx) and updates the MCP guide. Every claim was checked against platform-api origin/main and the live MCP server (read-only calls, plus free Story Studio test projects).

What's in it

  • Tools reference. Every tool an agent sees, grouped by area: voices, speech and transcription, file uploads, images and video, Story Studio, asset library, account and feedback. Each row says what the tool does for you. Arguments, limits, polling and retry rules stay in the tool definitions the client loads at connect time, so the page doesn't go stale with each server release. There are no hard-coded tool counts (the catalog has gone from 10 to 48 tools since July).
  • MCP guide.
    • A Tools section that links to each area.
    • A Credits section, so prices live in one place.
    • A reworked Good to know: plan rules, uploads, team and workspace, permanent links.
    • Voice cloning and Story Studio in the intro, and a "Produce a story" prompt.
    • sidebarTitle: "Overview", so the sidebar reads MCP Server > Overview, Tools.
  • Codex tab fix (pre-existing bug). codex mcp add fish-audio https://... saves the URL as a stdio command; HTTP servers need --url.
  • Elsewhere. llms.txt lists both MCP pages, and the coding agents page's capability list is current.

Left out on purpose

A few server behaviors are being raised with the MCP team. The docs don't describe them in either their current or expected form, so nothing here needs correcting when they're fixed:

  • uploading a file for Story Studio import
  • collecting background studio_generate results
  • studio_write_blocks per-edit statuses
  • whether project audio settings apply to existing blocks
  • pro vs flash transcription quality and prices
  • per-plan numeric limits

Checks

  • prettier --check overview/mcp/tools.mdx passes. The other touched files already fail prettier on main, so they were edited by hand to avoid unrelated reformatting.
  • mint broken-links --check-anchors finds nothing in the changed files. All hits are pre-existing ones in .mintlify/skills, temp/, and three other pages.
  • External links (history, assets, billing, Story Studio) return 200.

Merging with a merge commit (not squash) keeps Raghav's commits and should mark #256 as merged automatically.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Expanded the MCP Server guide with setup instructions for Codex, billing and credits information, a Story Studio prompt, and practical notes on audio tags, file retention, estimates, plan requirements, voice visibility, permanent links, and workspace selection.
    • Added a tools reference covering voice, speech and transcription, uploads, image and video, Story Studio, assets, and account features, with usage limits and confirmation requirements.
    • Updated navigation and quick-start links to make the MCP Server guide and tool reference easier to find.

raghavahuja2801 and others added 5 commits October 15, 2026 17:32
The MCP guide described what the server can do but never named a tool,
even though the coding-agents page already linked to it "for the tool
list". Add the list and close that gap.

- Add overview/mcp/tools.mdx: the core tools grouped into voices,
  speech and transcription, file uploads, images and video, and
  account, with what each one does.
- Add a Tools section to the MCP guide summarising the five groups and
  linking to the reference.
- Note voice cloning in the guide intro, which under-sold the scope.
- Nest both pages under an "MCP Server" group in the sidebar.

Covers the core tool set only; Story Studio and asset library tools are
not documented here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tools page covered the core set only, so a large part of the server's
surface was missing. Document the 17 Story Studio tools in three groups
(projects, reading and editing, generating and exporting), and move the
guide's summary to 37 tools across six areas.

Also fixes found reviewing both pages against the tool schemas:

- Restore the retry-duplication warnings the tool descriptions carry.
  studio_create_project and studio_import_document are not idempotent, so
  a retried call after a client-side timeout can duplicate a project or a
  whole import.
- Tie casting to search_voices and state the canonical sequence; the table
  alone left the order implicit.
- Correct blocks as "paragraph or heading" (kind includes headings) and
  rev as required for text, voice, or audio settings, not text or voice.
- Note that uploads feed transcription by URL but Studio import by storage
  key, and cover the web_upload_url fallback.
- Say "any plan other than Free" for export, matching is_paid().
- Drop the "Every tool" claim and the duplicated cost note: the page
  omits the asset library and internal tools, so point at the client's
  own tool list as authoritative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite the nine em-dashes in the new tools reference with the punctuation
the rest of the page and the surrounding docs already use: commas for
appositives, a period to split a sentence, and parentheses for one aside.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Checked every claim against platform-api origin/main and the live MCP
server.

- Document every agent-visible tool, adding the asset library and
  submit_feedback, and drop the hard-coded tool counts.
- Describe what each tool does for the user. Arguments, limits, and agent
  workflow stay in the tool definitions the client loads, so the page does
  not drift with each server release.
- Fix claims the server contradicts: list_my_workspaces lists workspaces
  in the connected team, the 7-day deletion applies only to get_upload_url,
  and Story Studio import takes a document's text.
- Move prices into a Credits section and plan rules into Good to know, so
  each fact lives in one place.
- Add sidebarTitle "Overview" so the sidebar reads MCP Server > Overview,
  Tools.
- Fix the Codex tab: codex mcp add needs --url for an HTTP server.
- List the MCP pages in llms.txt and update the capability list on the
  coding agents page.
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overview/mcp.mdx, developer-guide/resources/coding-agents.mdx, docs.json, llms.txt
The overview describes MCP capabilities and Codex setup, and adds a Story Studio prompt. Navigation and coding-agent resources link to the overview and tools reference.
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overview/mcp/tools.mdx, overview/mcp.mdx
The tools reference describes tool functions and usage constraints. The overview adds credit estimates and usage notes covering billing, plans, file retention, and workspace selection.

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- Line 36: Update the `get_upload_url` description in the tool table to say it
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