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Closes #1119.

Summary

Two docs defects, both reproducible on a clean main with uv run poe docs-generate:

1. airbyte.mcp.__all__ omitted submodules, so pdoc emitted no page for airbyte.mcp.interactive or airbyte.mcp.prompts (both 404 on the published site). Added interactive and prompts — plus a test that __all__ covers every non-underscore submodule found by pkgutil.iter_modules, so a new module can't silently go undocumented again.

That test also surfaced a scoping question, since pdoc renders exactly the submodules named in __all__: server and http_main are process entry points whose public surface is a main() nobody calls directly, and their connectivity/env docs are already the canonical text in airbyte.mcp's own docstring. So both are now out of __all__ (and out of the docs), with the coverage test carrying an explicit, asserted exception set rather than a silent gap:

DOCS_EXCLUDED_MODULES = frozenset({"http_main", "server"})
assert public_modules - DOCS_EXCLUDED_MODULES <= exported_modules
assert DOCS_EXCLUDED_MODULES.isdisjoint(exported_modules)   # can't silently rot

Note this drops the pre-existing airbyte.mcp.server page. Both modules keep their names and import paths, so from airbyte.mcp.server import app and the airbyte-mcp / airbyte-mcp-http entry points are unaffected; renaming them to _server / _http_main (which would make the exclusion self-evident and drop the exception set) is left as a follow-up.

2. docs-generate printed Cannot include '.../local.md' and exited 0. scripts/generate_mcp_markdown.py documented whatever fastmcp inspect returned, and inspect runs the tool-filter middleware — so a default pass only saw 40 of 55 tools. local's tools are annotated requiresClientFilesystem=True and hidden unless trusted_execution is on; interactive's are annotated interactive-ui and hidden unless the client declares the io.modelcontextprotocol/ui extension. Those two gates can't both be open in one pass — trusted_execution_filter force-disables itself whenever an HTTP request context is active, and the UI extension declaration can only arrive through one. So the generator now inspects twice and merges:

# child process, env AIRBYTE_MCP_TRUSTED_EXECUTION=1, server imported in-process
report_a = await inspect_fastmcp(app)                     # trusted, no HTTP ctx -> cloud+local+registry
token = _current_http_request.set(Request(http_scope))    # X-MCP-Extensions: io.modelcontextprotocol/ui
report_b = await inspect_fastmcp(app)                     # -> cloud+registry+interactive
report = _merge_reports(report_a, report_b)               # union per section, keyed by name/uri

The inspect runs in a child process (--emit-inspect-json self-reinvocation) so the docs build itself never runs with trusted execution enabled and never imports the MCP server. All the gate names come from the installed packages (MCP_TRUSTED_EXECUTION_ENV_VAR, UI_EXTENSION_ID, DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS_HEADER, ANNOTATION_*), not string literals.

Also in this PR:

  • Unresolved includes now fail the build. _regenerate_mcp_markdown() no longer swallows generator failures into a warning, and a new _validate_includes() scans airbyte/**/*.py for .. include:: targets and raises listing every missing one, before pdoc runs.
  • airbyte/mcp/interactive got the include directive it never had (../../../docs/mcp-generated/interactive.md — one level deeper since it's a package).
  • Default-hidden tools are annotated in the generated Markdown, e.g. **Availability:** requires trusted execution (AIRBYTE_MCP_TRUSTED_EXECUTION=1, stdio transport only); never available over HTTP. (the optional half of the issue — done, not skipped).

Generated output stays git-ignored; nothing under docs/generated/ or docs/mcp-generated/ is committed.

Test plan

  • uv run poe docs-generate on a clean tree: exit 0, no Cannot include warnings. docs/mcp-generated/ now has index.md, cloud.md (36 tools), local.md (12), interactive.md (3), registry.md (4), prompts.md, misc.md; docs/generated/airbyte/mcp/ contains exactly cloud.html, interactive.html, local.html, prompts.html, registry.html (no server.html / http_main.html), and the local/interactive pages render their tool tables.
  • Negative path: pointing an include at a nonexistent file makes the build exit 1 with RuntimeError: Unresolved documentation includes: airbyte/mcp/interactive/__init__.py includes missing docs/mcp-generated/missing.md.
  • uv run poe test-fast (628 passed), uv run ruff format --check ., uv run ruff check ., uv run pyrefly check (0 errors).
  • The MCP auth/http/http_main unit tests pass unchanged after the __all__ trim, confirming from airbyte.mcp import server and from airbyte.mcp import http_main still resolve (submodule imports don't depend on the parent re-exporting them).
  • New unit tests in tests/unit_tests/test_mcp_docs_includes.py cover the include scanner (missing and present target) and the __all__ coverage invariant; they don't shell out to fastmcp inspect, so they run in the credential-free fast suite.

Requested by AJ Steers (Aaron ("AJ") Steers (@aaronsteers)).

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  • Documentation

    • Improved interactive MCP documentation generation and validation.
    • Added checks to detect missing documentation includes before publishing generated docs.
    • Added availability indicators for tools requiring client filesystem or interactive UI support.
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    • MCP documentation generation now reports missing or failed generators instead of silently continuing.
    • Improved reliability by isolating server inspection and reporting timeout or execution failures.
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    • Added coverage for valid and missing documentation includes and public MCP module exports.

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The MCP documentation flow now exports the documented modules, inspects the complete FastMCP surface in a child process, renders availability requirements, and fails when generators or documentation includes are invalid.

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MCP exports and include validation
airbyte/mcp/__init__.py, airbyte/mcp/interactive/__init__.py, docs/generate.py, tests/unit_tests/test_mcp_docs_includes.py
The package and interactive module expose generated documentation. Documentation generation validates includes and propagates generator failures. Tests cover missing and existing includes, generated module names, and public exports.
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scripts/generate_mcp_markdown.py
The generator launches trusted child-process inspections, runs standard and UI-capable passes, merges unique protocol objects, and adds module metadata.
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scripts/generate_mcp_markdown.py
The generator uses child-produced metadata and renders availability notices for trusted client-filesystem and MCP Apps UI requirements.

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The documentation build now validates generated includes, but two path-handling edge cases can produce confusing errors or bypass that validation when run from unusual working directories or with out-of-tree targets. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded build-validation issues.

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  participant Docs as docs/generate.py
  participant Generator as generate_mcp_markdown.py
  participant Inspector as Child inspection process
  participant Server as FastMCP server
  Docs->>Generator: Regenerate MCP Markdown
  Generator->>Inspector: Launch trusted inspection
  Inspector->>Server: Import configured server
  Inspector->>Server: Run standard and UI-capable inspections
  Inspector-->>Generator: Return merged inspection JSON
  Generator-->>Docs: Write generated MCP Markdown
  Docs->>Docs: Validate reStructuredText includes
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The overall line coverage in commit 7ba2a09 in the devin/1787620895-fix... branch is 69%. The line coverage in commit d9f652f in the main branch is 65%.

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airbyte/mcp/cloud.py 52% 57% +5%
airbyte/cloud/connections.py 26% 37% +11%
airbyte/mcp/_tool_utils.py 72% 87% +15%
airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py 13% 44% +31%
airbyte/mcp/int...c_history_ui.py 0% 36% +36%
airbyte/mcp/int...hared_models.py 0% 81% +81%
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airbyte/mcp/cloud.py 52% 57% +5%
airbyte/cloud/connections.py 26% 37% +11%
airbyte/mcp/_tool_utils.py 72% 87% +15%
airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py 13% 44% +31%
airbyte/mcp/int...c_history_ui.py 0% 36% +36%
airbyte/mcp/int...hared_models.py 0% 81% +81%
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airbyte/mcp/_tool_utils.py 72% 87% +15%
airbyte/mcp/server.py 69% 88% +19%
airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py 13% 44% +31%
airbyte/mcp/int...c_history_ui.py 0% 36% +36%
airbyte/mcp/int...hared_models.py 0% 81% +81%
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Pull request overview

Updates the airbyte.mcp package exports so pdoc can generate documentation pages for all intended MCP modules (notably interactive and prompts), aligning the package’s public surface with the MCP module layout.

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  • Export interactive and prompts from airbyte.mcp by importing them in __init__.py.
  • Extend __all__ to include interactive and prompts so documentation tooling surfaces these modules.

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80-80: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Validation silently passes when docs-generate runs from another directory.

_validate_includes(pathlib.Path.cwd()) looks for <cwd>/airbyte. If the task runs from a subdirectory, that path does not exist, rglob yields nothing, and the new guard becomes a no-op. Line 39 already derives the repository root from __file__. Would you anchor the validation the same way, so the guard always inspects the real sources? wdyt?

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Runtime verification of the generated docs site

Built the docs from a clean tree (rm -rf docs/generated docs/mcp-generated && uv run poe docs-generate) and inspected the rendered HTML in a browser.

  • poe docs-generate exits 0, log free of Cannot include / UserWarning, and reports Done. 6 module(s) documented — 55 tool(s), 2 resource(s), 1 prompt(s). (a single default inspect sees 40).
  • docs/generated/airbyte/mcp/ contains exactly cloud/interactive/local/prompts/registry; mcp/server.html and mcp/http_main.html both 404, as intended.
  • The includes render as real body content with the Availability: annotations.
local — Tools (12) with trusted-execution availability

local module page
local module tool with Availability and params

interactive — the newly added include renders Tools (3) with UI-client availability

interactive module page

Sidebar shows exactly five submodules (no server / http_main)

airbyte.mcp sidebar
server.html 404

Negative check: an unresolved include fails the build

Pointing airbyte/mcp/local.py's include at a nonexistent file makes the build exit 1:

RuntimeError: Unresolved documentation includes:
airbyte/mcp/local.py includes missing docs/mcp-generated/does-not-exist.md

Edit reverted; working tree clean.

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Top-level airbyte.html sidebar still lists mcp and navigates correctly; the prompts page still renders its include (Prompts (1) / test-my-tools).

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Looked into both failures — neither is in this PR's changed code, so there was nothing to fix; I merged latest main (7ba2a09) to get a fresh run.

  1. Pytest (Fast) failed on unchanged tests/integration_tests/secrets/test_gsm_secrets.py::test_first_connector_secret, with grpc StatusCode.UNAVAILABLE ... "502:Bad Gateway" from Google Secret Manager while fetching the source-salesforce secret. That's an upstream GSM blip: the same test passes locally on clean main (1 passed), and the full Ubuntu 3.10/3.11 and No-Creds matrix jobs all passed on the same commit. I couldn't rerun the workflow myself (gh run rerunResource not accessible by integration), hence the merge commit to re-trigger.

  2. PyTest Results (Fast Tests Only, No Creds) is downstream of the same test failure, and its publish step then died on its own permission error: POST /repos/airbytehq/PyAirbyte/issues/1121/comments failed with 403: Resource not accessible by integration. That 403 is a workflow-token permission gap in the results-reporting step, unrelated to this change — worth a separate look if it recurs on other PRs.

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