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.
ArtifactMCP
Applies at (given)$
Severityinfo — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce
Referencehttps://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/mcp/document-require-capabilities/