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Summary

Fix https://github.com/elastic/search-team/issues/10418

This PR refactor the tool HTTP APIs according to our specifications. It also takes this opportunity to refactor the internals of the tool registry system to get rid of deprecated concepts (such as tool provider ids, structured tool ids and so on)

With this PR, we now have a unified API facade to interact with all type of tools, even for operations such as creating or updating tools.

Screenshot 2025-07-11 at 14 18 38

What the PR does technically

  • introduce the public tool HTTP APIs, following our spec

  • Add the corresponding APIs to the browser-side tools service

  • remove the esql tool specific APIs (as the unified APIs supersede them)

  • share tool storage and persistence: even if we today only have one "type" of tool which can be created (ES|QL tools), the system ready to have multiple, and have them all persisted in the same index and following the same shape (while having different configuration properties and schema)

  • remove concept of toolProviderId, as ID uniqueness is now enforced via a different mechanism (id prefix for internal tools, all persisted tools sharing the same index, tool id format for MCP and so on)

  • reduces the onechat plugin's server-side contract to the minimum (remove tool provider registration, mostly)

APIs

List tools

GET kbn:/api/chat/tools
**response**
{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "get_document_by_id",
      "type": "builtin",
      "description": "Retrieve the full content (source) of a document based on its ID and index name.",
      "tags": [
        "retrieval"
      ],
      "configuration": {},
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the document to retrieve"
          },
          "index": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Name of the index to retrieve the document from"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "index"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
      }
    },
    // .... all other tools
  ]
}

Get tool by ID

GET kbn:/api/chat/tools/list_indices
**response**
{
  "id": "list_indices",
  "type": "builtin",
  "description": "List the indices in the Elasticsearch cluster the current user has access to.",
  "tags": [
    "retrieval"
  ],
  "configuration": {},
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "pattern": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "(optional) pattern to filter indices by. Defaults to *. Leave empty to list all indices (recommended)"
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}

Create tool

POST kbn:/api/chat/tools
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "demo tool",
  "tags": [],
  "configuration": {
      "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
      "params": {
         "symbol": {
            "type": "keyword",
            "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
          }
        }
    }
}
**response**
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "demo tool",
  "tags": [],
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
    "params": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    }
  },
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "symbol"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Parameters needed to execute the query",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}

Update tool

PUT kbn:/api/chat/tools/esql_symbol_news_and_reports
{
  "description": "updated description",
  "tags": ["sometag"]
}
**response**
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "updated description",
  "tags": [
    "sometag"
  ],
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
    "params": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    }
  },
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "symbol"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Parameters needed to execute the query",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}

Delete tool

DELETE kbn:/api/chat/tools/my_tool
**response**
{
  "success": true
}

Execute tool

POST kbn:/api/chat/tools/_execute
{
  "tool_id": "list_indices",
  "tool_params": {}
}
**response**
{
  "result": {[actual tool result]} 
}

Remaining work / follow-up

  1. enforce . prefix for our built-in tools and perform ID rewrite for the LLM (to a valid name)
  2. refactor tool shape for schema (schema: { input, output })

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self-review

* Ids of built-in onechat tools
*/
export const BuiltinToolIds = {
export const builtinToolIds = {
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(still need to change the name of our built-in tools and enforce their all start with the right prefix - this is tracked in the "follow-up" section)

Comment on lines +30 to +36
export const isAllToolsSelectedForProvider = (
providerId: string,
providerTools: ToolDescriptor[],
providerTools: ToolSelectionRelevantFields[],
selectedTools: ToolSelection[]
): boolean => {
// Filter provider tools to only those from the specified provider
const filteredProviderTools = providerTools.filter((tool) => tool.meta.providerId === providerId);
const filteredProviderTools = providerTools.filter((tool) => tool.type === providerId);
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NIT: yes ideally we should rename all occurences of "providerId" to "type" and switch the type to ToolType, but let's keep that for a cleanup later, as the PR is already too big to my liking.

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haha. i nitted this. OK ignore my nit on this topic.

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// @ts-expect-error type mismatch for tags type
export type ToolStorage = StorageIndexAdapter<ToolStorageSettings, ToolProperties>;
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conflict between the tags mapping which is keyword, and the tags propert which we define as string[] (as it is an array). This is technically correct, but the library's type inference expects single values (known limitation), so we're forced to TS-ignore for now.

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export type ToolPersistedDefinition<TConfig extends object = {}> = ToolDefinition<TConfig> & {
created_at: string;
updated_at: string;
};
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storing the creation / update date in the index, even if those are never surfaced to the tool definition. We could store additional properties (e.g owner and such) that way if we want to.

Comment on lines +42 to +58
export const createEsqlToolClient = ({
logger,
esClient,
}: {
logger: Logger;
esClient: ElasticsearchClient;
}): ToolTypeClient<EsqlToolConfig> => {
const toolClient = createClient({ esClient, logger });

return {
async has(toolId: string) {
try {
await toolClient.get(toolId);
return true;
} catch (e) {
if (isToolNotFoundError(e)) {
return false;
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So at the moment this is called "ESQL tool client", but in practice when/if we have multiple persisted tool types at some point, we will retrieve everything from a single client (e.g to perform one single _search call instead of one per type). I just kept that "ESQL" naming for now for clarity.

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yep - this allows us when we do introduce more types, to have the configurations persisted in a single index.

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// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-empty-interface
export interface ToolListParams {
// blank for now
// type?: ToolType[];
// tags?: string[];
}
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We will likely want to allow filtering the list api by type, tags, and other... but kept that for later.

Comment on lines +54 to +61
export const createToolRegistry = (params: CreateToolClientParams): ToolRegistry => {
return new ToolClientImpl(params);
};

class ToolClientImpl implements ToolRegistry {
private readonly typesDefinitions: ToolTypeDefinition[];
private readonly request: KibanaRequest;
private readonly getRunner: () => Runner;
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Implementation of the "unified" tool registry, dispatching to per-type providers

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Took a long while to go through it! LGTM , couple of questions and we are missing total in tools list response


export const createToolNotFoundError = ({
toolId,
toolType,
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If I'm reading correctly this is an unused variable? Do we need it?

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Good catch, something I forgot to cleanup

return response.ok<ListToolsResponse>({
body: {
tools: tools.map(toolToDescriptor),
results: tools.map(toolToDescriptor),
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we are missing total

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Is that in the spec? If so I gonna need to talk to Joe about it, I'm not sure this makes any sense today (not that it would be complicated to add)

cc @joemcelroy!

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its in the spec but can be added later on because theres no pagination controls yet. We can punt on total. As long as its in results key.

const attributes = createAttributes({ createRequest });

await this.storage.getClient().index({
id: createRequest.id,
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should we have some validation logic here?

e.g. can't start with . so that it can't mimick built in tools?

sth analogous to ensureValidId in agent client

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This is done in the tool registry, the idea is that the client is absolutely logic-less, and that kind of logic is done in the registry, or the tool providers for per-type specific things such as esql configuration validation. Now granted, the approach diverge from what we have for the agent today (well, after I reverted what I asked you to do with the service+client...)

ensureValidId(tool.id);
if (await this.has(tool.id)) {
throw createBadRequestError(`Tool with id ${tool.id} already exists`);
}

Arguably, things like id consistency check could make sense in the low level persistence client too, but I decided to avoid it for two reasons:

  1. as said, we already do it in the higher layers, and the persistence client is exclusively used by the registry (atm, granted)
  2. it would raise the question of "what else" the low level client should be doing - e.g should it validate per-type schemas and such - which is atm also done only in the higher layers.

),
description: schema.string({ defaultValue: '' }),
tags: schema.arrayOf(schema.string(), { defaultValue: [] }),
configuration: esqlConfigSchema,
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so if we add yet another tool type that has configuration we can simply do schema.oneOf([esqlConfigSchema, anotherToolTypeConfigSchema]) ? Can this mess up OpenAPI spec and documentation?

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So regarding the endpoint's schema, yeah, that's the idea.

Now regarding the OpenAPI spec, to be honest, I have no idea if the automatic spec generation would work with it, afaik it's fairly limited, we might have to manually maintain the spec (I doubt that our autogenerated spec handles things such as qualifier fields and such)

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@pquentin followed up with me and supported that the team suppports the type to be in the body, not in the URL. Theres some difficulty with OpenAPI specs but it shouldn't prevent this.

The other part is we dont yet have a client or other types more concretely. Best to keep it simple on what we have today.

if (toolSelection.type && toolSelection.type !== tool.type) {
return false;
}
if (toolSelection.tool_ids.includes(allToolsSelectionWildcard)) {
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what happens if it is wildcard, does that include all tools, including ESQL ones?

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{ tool_ids: ['*']} returns all tools if that's what you're asking.
{ type: '*' } is not supported and not valid.

But that PR doesn't change that behavior in any way, only renames the concepts.

@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ export const ToolsSelection: React.FC<ToolsSelectionProps> = ({
}) => {
// Group tools by provider
const toolsByProvider = useMemo(() => {
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nitpick: can we update this to not use provider and use type?

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Yeah, it was a long refactor, I was just lazy on Friday. Fixed it - bbff84e

body: schema.object({
id: schema.string(),
type: schema.maybe(
schema.oneOf([schema.literal(ToolType.esql), schema.literal(ToolType.builtin)])
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is that right we want to allow builtin tools to be user created?

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We can't, it's just that the validation is handled lower, in the service layer. TBH I did that because we're more in control of error messages in the tool registry that we are with config-schema, and to as much as possible in a single place.

But I can remove it

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);

// create tool
router.post(
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suggestion: router to be versioned like agents and have technical preview warning

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Good one, I totally forgot about switching to versioned, lemme fix that - 1760281

description: tool.description,
tags: tool.tags,
configuration: {},
schema: tool.schema,
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does the schema represent only the inputSchema or both input and outputSchema too?

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Only input. We have an issue to (discuss) about supporting output schemas for our tools: https://github.com/elastic/search-team/issues/10394

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is it best we rename this to Input_schema then? follow up having a output_schema once discussion resolved?

* Check if an ID is valid for creation
* @param id
*/
export const ensureValidId = (id: string) => {
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we can move this to common once the FE work starts and need to share these rules.

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works great for such a big PR.

All working with API and aligned with the design doc. One issue on the FE tools list page (doesn't render).

Something we need to talk about with builtin and how we namespace these tools. Will reach out.

tested on API:

  • GET LIST
  • GET SINGLE
    • ESQL
    • builtin
  • create esql
  • update esql
  • errors
    • deleting a builtin tool
    • adding an esql tool with "." in the name
    • adding an esql tool with an invalid name
    • adding a tool that already exists (both builtin and esql)

validate: {
body: schema.object({
id: schema.string(),
type: schema.maybe(
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@pquentin suggested making the type property required, and I agree - it makes sense to force users to be explicit and ensure they're aware of the different available types.

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That would be absolutely better, it's just that iirc that wasn't the output of the last discussions we had. Now if we're fine making the type as mandatory even with the single value we have today, I will very happily make that change :)

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Thanks! The feedback was not on the tool creation API but on the other APIs, where type was everywhere without a good reason. Indeed, if there's one place where we should leave the type, it's in the body of this API. (To have proper OpenAPI generation, it would have to be in the URL, but we all agree that's not ideal.)

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lgtm

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dennis-tismenko added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 14, 2025
## Summary

Updating the OneChat README to incorporate the latest API changes in
#227452 for the example of creating an ES|QL tool. It now reads:

```json
POST kbn://api/chat/tools
{
  "id": "case_by_id",
  "description": "Find a custom case by id.",
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM my_cases | WHERE case_id == ?case_id | KEEP title, description | LIMIT 1",
    "params": {
      "case_id": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The id of the case to retrieve"
      }
    }
  },
  "type": "esql",
  "tags": ["salesforce"]
}
pgayvallet added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 16, 2025
## Summary

Follow-up of #227452

Enforce `builtin` tools follow the expected convention for ids (starting
with `.`)

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Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Bluefinger pushed a commit to Bluefinger/kibana that referenced this pull request Jul 22, 2025
## Summary

Fix elastic/search-team#10418

This PR refactor the tool HTTP APIs according to our specifications. It
also takes this opportunity to refactor the internals of the tool
registry system to get rid of deprecated concepts (such as tool provider
ids, structured tool ids and so on)

With this PR, we now have a unified API facade to interact with all type
of tools, even for operations such as creating or updating tools.

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/>

### What the PR does technically

- introduce the public tool HTTP APIs, following our spec

- Add the corresponding APIs to the browser-side tools service

- remove the esql tool specific APIs (as the unified APIs supersede
them)

- share tool storage and persistence: even if we today only have one
"type" of tool which can be created (ES|QL tools), the system ready to
have multiple, and have them all persisted in the same index and
following the same shape (while having different configuration
properties and schema)

- remove concept of toolProviderId, as ID uniqueness is now enforced via
a different mechanism (id prefix for internal tools, all persisted tools
sharing the same index, tool id format for MCP and so on)

- reduces the onechat plugin's server-side contract to the minimum
(remove tool provider registration, mostly)

## APIs

### List tools

```
GET kbn:/api/chat/tools
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "get_document_by_id",
      "type": "builtin",
      "description": "Retrieve the full content (source) of a document based on its ID and index name.",
      "tags": [
        "retrieval"
      ],
      "configuration": {},
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the document to retrieve"
          },
          "index": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Name of the index to retrieve the document from"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "index"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
      }
    },
    // .... all other tools
  ]
}
```
</details>

### Get tool by ID

```
GET kbn:/api/chat/tools/list_indices
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "id": "list_indices",
  "type": "builtin",
  "description": "List the indices in the Elasticsearch cluster the current user has access to.",
  "tags": [
    "retrieval"
  ],
  "configuration": {},
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "pattern": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "(optional) pattern to filter indices by. Defaults to *. Leave empty to list all indices (recommended)"
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}
```
</details>


### Create tool

```
POST kbn:/api/chat/tools
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "demo tool",
  "tags": [],
  "configuration": {
      "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
      "params": {
         "symbol": {
            "type": "keyword",
            "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
          }
        }
    }
}
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "demo tool",
  "tags": [],
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
    "params": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    }
  },
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "symbol"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Parameters needed to execute the query",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}
```
</details>


### Update tool

```
PUT kbn:/api/chat/tools/esql_symbol_news_and_reports
{
  "description": "updated description",
  "tags": ["sometag"]
}
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "updated description",
  "tags": [
    "sometag"
  ],
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
    "params": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    }
  },
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "symbol"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Parameters needed to execute the query",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}
```
</details>

### Delete tool 

```
DELETE kbn:/api/chat/tools/my_tool
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "success": true
}
```
</details>

### Execute tool

```
POST kbn:/api/chat/tools/_execute
{
  "tool_id": "list_indices",
  "tool_params": {}
}
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "result": {[actual tool result]} 
}
```
</details>


## Remaining work / follow-up

1. enforce `.` prefix for our built-in tools and perform ID rewrite for
the LLM (to a valid name)
2. refactor tool shape for schema (`schema: { input, output }`)

---------

Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Bluefinger pushed a commit to Bluefinger/kibana that referenced this pull request Jul 22, 2025
## Summary

Updating the OneChat README to incorporate the latest API changes in
elastic#227452 for the example of creating an ES|QL tool. It now reads:

```json
POST kbn://api/chat/tools
{
  "id": "case_by_id",
  "description": "Find a custom case by id.",
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM my_cases | WHERE case_id == ?case_id | KEEP title, description | LIMIT 1",
    "params": {
      "case_id": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The id of the case to retrieve"
      }
    }
  },
  "type": "esql",
  "tags": ["salesforce"]
}
Bluefinger pushed a commit to Bluefinger/kibana that referenced this pull request Jul 22, 2025
## Summary

Follow-up of elastic#227452

Enforce `builtin` tools follow the expected convention for ids (starting
with `.`)

---------

Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
kertal pushed a commit to kertal/kibana that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2025
## Summary

Fix elastic/search-team#10418

This PR refactor the tool HTTP APIs according to our specifications. It
also takes this opportunity to refactor the internals of the tool
registry system to get rid of deprecated concepts (such as tool provider
ids, structured tool ids and so on)

With this PR, we now have a unified API facade to interact with all type
of tools, even for operations such as creating or updating tools.

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/>

### What the PR does technically

- introduce the public tool HTTP APIs, following our spec

- Add the corresponding APIs to the browser-side tools service

- remove the esql tool specific APIs (as the unified APIs supersede
them)

- share tool storage and persistence: even if we today only have one
"type" of tool which can be created (ES|QL tools), the system ready to
have multiple, and have them all persisted in the same index and
following the same shape (while having different configuration
properties and schema)

- remove concept of toolProviderId, as ID uniqueness is now enforced via
a different mechanism (id prefix for internal tools, all persisted tools
sharing the same index, tool id format for MCP and so on)

- reduces the onechat plugin's server-side contract to the minimum
(remove tool provider registration, mostly)

## APIs

### List tools

```
GET kbn:/api/chat/tools
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "get_document_by_id",
      "type": "builtin",
      "description": "Retrieve the full content (source) of a document based on its ID and index name.",
      "tags": [
        "retrieval"
      ],
      "configuration": {},
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the document to retrieve"
          },
          "index": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Name of the index to retrieve the document from"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "index"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
      }
    },
    // .... all other tools
  ]
}
```
</details>

### Get tool by ID

```
GET kbn:/api/chat/tools/list_indices
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "id": "list_indices",
  "type": "builtin",
  "description": "List the indices in the Elasticsearch cluster the current user has access to.",
  "tags": [
    "retrieval"
  ],
  "configuration": {},
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "pattern": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "(optional) pattern to filter indices by. Defaults to *. Leave empty to list all indices (recommended)"
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}
```
</details>


### Create tool

```
POST kbn:/api/chat/tools
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "demo tool",
  "tags": [],
  "configuration": {
      "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
      "params": {
         "symbol": {
            "type": "keyword",
            "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
          }
        }
    }
}
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "demo tool",
  "tags": [],
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
    "params": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    }
  },
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "symbol"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Parameters needed to execute the query",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}
```
</details>


### Update tool

```
PUT kbn:/api/chat/tools/esql_symbol_news_and_reports
{
  "description": "updated description",
  "tags": ["sometag"]
}
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "id": "esql_symbol_news_and_reports",
  "type": "esql",
  "description": "updated description",
  "tags": [
    "sometag"
  ],
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM financial_news, financial_reports | where MATCH(company_symbol, ?symbol) OR MATCH(entities, ?symbol) | limit 5",
    "params": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    }
  },
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The asset or company symbol to search for in financial data."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "symbol"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Parameters needed to execute the query",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
  }
}
```
</details>

### Delete tool 

```
DELETE kbn:/api/chat/tools/my_tool
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "success": true
}
```
</details>

### Execute tool

```
POST kbn:/api/chat/tools/_execute
{
  "tool_id": "list_indices",
  "tool_params": {}
}
```

<details>
<summary>**response**</summary>

```json
{
  "result": {[actual tool result]} 
}
```
</details>


## Remaining work / follow-up

1. enforce `.` prefix for our built-in tools and perform ID rewrite for
the LLM (to a valid name)
2. refactor tool shape for schema (`schema: { input, output }`)

---------

Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
kertal pushed a commit to kertal/kibana that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2025
## Summary

Updating the OneChat README to incorporate the latest API changes in
elastic#227452 for the example of creating an ES|QL tool. It now reads:

```json
POST kbn://api/chat/tools
{
  "id": "case_by_id",
  "description": "Find a custom case by id.",
  "configuration": {
    "query": "FROM my_cases | WHERE case_id == ?case_id | KEEP title, description | LIMIT 1",
    "params": {
      "case_id": {
        "type": "keyword",
        "description": "The id of the case to retrieve"
      }
    }
  },
  "type": "esql",
  "tags": ["salesforce"]
}
kertal pushed a commit to kertal/kibana that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2025
## Summary

Follow-up of elastic#227452

Enforce `builtin` tools follow the expected convention for ids (starting
with `.`)

---------

Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
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