Rust API Reference

The Rust crate mcp-methods is published on crates.io. Full rustdoc is auto-built by docs.rs:

➡️ docs.rs/mcp-methods

Quick index

The most-imported types and functions, grouped:

Manifest

• mcp_methods::server::manifest::load — load + validate a YAML manifest

• mcp_methods::server::Manifest — the parsed manifest struct

• mcp_methods::server::Manifest::to_json — JSON view for FFI/RPC bridging

• mcp_methods::server::manifest::find_workspace_manifest / find_sibling_manifest

• mcp_methods::server::TrustConfig

• mcp_methods::server::WorkspaceConfig

• mcp_methods::server::BuiltinsConfig

• mcp_methods::server::ToolSpec

Server framework

• mcp_methods::server::McpServer — the framework’s MCP server

• mcp_methods::server::McpServer::new

• mcp_methods::server::McpServer::register_typed_tool — register a custom tool

• mcp_methods::server::McpServer::serve — start the server (via rmcp transport)

• mcp_methods::server::ServerOptions — config used to construct the server

• mcp_methods::server::ServerOptions::from_manifest

Workspace

• mcp_methods::server::workspace::Workspace

• Workspace::open (GitHub mode) / Workspace::open_local (local mode)

• PostActivateHook — callback signature

Skills

• mcp_methods::server::SkillRegistry — builder for the three-layer resolved set

• mcp_methods::server::ResolvedRegistry — post-resolution skill set

• mcp_methods::server::serve_prompts — wire a resolved registry into prompts/list / prompts/get

• mcp_methods::server::library_bundled_skills — framework defaults Vec

• mcp_methods::server::render_skill_template / write_skill_template — scaffold a starter SKILL.md

• mcp_methods::server::cli::skills_lint / skills_list / skills_show / skills_new — composable CLI helpers

Watch + env

• mcp_methods::server::maybe_watch — spawn the filesystem watcher

• mcp_methods::server::load_env_for_mode — .env resolution

• mcp_methods::server::init_tracing

• mcp_methods::server::resolve_source_roots

Primitives (always available, no server feature needed)

• mcp_methods::cache::ElementCache

• mcp_methods::compact

• mcp_methods::files

• mcp_methods::git_refs

• mcp_methods::github

• mcp_methods::grep

• mcp_methods::html

• mcp_methods::json_grep

• mcp_methods::list_dir

Features

Feature	Default	What it enables
server	✅ on	The full framework (mcp_methods::server::*): rmcp + tokio + clap + manifest + tool routing

Disable with default-features = false for the bare primitives:

mcp-methods = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }

See also

• Downstream Binary — how to wrap McpServer::new

• Architecture — three-crate layout

• The published crates.io page