Document Require Capabilities
document-require-capabilities
info
experience: data-modelingexperience: discoverability
spec: servers
capabilities should be present
The capabilities property should be present.
Rule definition
The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.
document-require-capabilities:
title: Document Require Capabilities
reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/mcp/document-require-capabilities/
description: The `capabilities` property should be present.
message: capabilities should be present
severity: info
given: $
then:
field: capabilities
function: truthy
tags:
- format:mcp
- spec:servers
- experience:data-modeling
- experience:discoverability
prompt: "You are editing a MCP document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance
rule 'document-require-capabilities' (Document Require Capabilities).
Requirement: The `capabilities` property should be present. To fix: Ensure
`capabilities` is present and non-empty at each matching location. Make the
smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key
order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid MCP.
Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing a MCP document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'document-require-capabilities' (Document Require Capabilities). Requirement: The `capabilities` property should be present. To fix: Ensure `capabilities` is present and non-empty at each matching location. Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid MCP. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
| Artifact | MCP |
|---|---|
| Applies at (given) | $ |
| Severity | info — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce |
| Reference | https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/mcp/document-require-capabilities/ |