Tools Overview: compute.googleapis.com

Get MCP tool specifications

To get the MCP tool specifications for all tools in an MCP server, use the tools/list method. The following example demonstrates how to use curl to list all tools and their specifications currently available within the MCP server.

Curl Request 
                    
curl --location 'https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
    "method": "tools/list",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1
}'
MCP Tools
create_instance Create a new Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. If machine_type is not provided, it defaults to e2-medium. If image_project and image_family are not provided, it defaults to debian-12 image from debian-cloud project. To get more details about the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.
delete_instance Delete a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. To get more details about the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.
start_instance Starts a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. To get more details about the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.
stop_instance Stops a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. To get more details about the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.
reset_instance Resets a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. To get more details about the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.
get_instance_basic_info Get basic information about a Compute Engine VM instance, including its name, ID, status, machine type, creation timestamp, and attached guest accelerators. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input.
set_instance_machine_type Sets the machine type for a stopped Google Compute Engine instance to the specified machine type. Requires project, zone, instance name and machine type as input. To get more details about the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.
list_instance_attached_disks Lists the disks attached to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. For each attached disk, the response includes details such as kind, type, mode, saved state, source, device name, index, boot, initialize parameters, auto delete, licenses,, interface, guest OS features, disk encryption key, disk size, shielded instance initial state, force attach, and architecture. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input.
list_instances Lists Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instances. Details for each instance include name, ID, status, machine type, creation timestamp, and attached guest accelerators. Use other tools to get more details about each instance. Requires project and zone as input.
get_instance_group_manager_basic_info Get basic information about a Compute Engine managed instance group (MIG), including its name, ID, instance template, base instance name, target size, target stopped size, target suspended size, status and creation timestamp. Requires project, zone, and MIG name as input.
list_instance_group_managers Lists Compute Engine managed instance groups (MIGs). Details for each MIG include name, ID, instance template, base instance name, target size, target stopped size, target suspended size, status and creation timestamp. Requires project and zone as input.
list_managed_instances Lists managed instances for a given managed instance group (MIG). For each instance, details include id, instance URL, instance status, and current action. Requires project, zone, and MIG name as input.
list_instance_templates Lists Compute Engine instance templates. Details for each instance template include name, ID, description, machine type, region, and creation timestamp. Requires project as input.
get_instance_template_basic_info Get basic information about a Compute Engine instance template, including its name, ID, description, machine type, region, and creation timestamp. Requires project and instance template name as input.
get_instance_template_properties Get instance properties of a Compute Engine instance template. This includes properties such as description, tags, machine type, network interfaces, disks, metadata, service accounts, scheduling options, labels, guest accelerators, reservation affinity, and shielded/confidential instance configurations. Requires project and instance template name as input.
get_disk_basic_info Get basic information about a Compute Engine disk, including its name, ID, description, creation timestamp, size, type, status, last attach timestamp, and last detach timestamp. Requires project, zone, and disk name as input.
get_disk_performance_config Get performance configuration of a Compute Engine disk, including its type, size, provisioned IOPS, provisioned throughput, physical block size, storage pool and access mode. Requires project, zone, and disk name as input.
list_disks Lists Compute Engine disks. Details for each disk include name, ID, description, creation timestamp, size, type, status, last attach timestamp, and last detach timestamp. Requires project and zone as input.
list_accelerator_types Lists the available Google Compute Engine accelerator types. Requires project and zone as input. Returns accelerator types, including id, creation timestamp, name, description, deprecated, zone, and maximum cards per instance.
list_machine_types Lists the available Google Compute Engine machine types. Requires project and zone as input. Returns machine types, including id, creationTimestamp, name, description, guest cpus, memory, image space, maximum persistent disks, maximum persisten disks size, deprecated, zone, is shared cpu, accelerators, and architecture.
list_images Lists Compute Engine Images. Details for each image include name, ID, status, family, and creation timestamp. Requires project as input.
get_zone_operation Get details of a zone operation, including its id, name, status, creation timestamp, error, warning, HTTP error message and HTTP error status code. Requires project, zone, and operation name as input.
get_reservation_basic_info Get Compute Engine reservation basic info including name, ID, creation timestamp, zone, status, specific reservation required, commitment, and linked commitments. Requires project, zone, and reservation name as input.
list_reservations Lists Compute Engine reservations. Details for each reservation include name, ID, creation timestamp, zone, status, specific reservation required, commitment, and linked commitments. Requires project and zone as input.
list_commitments Lists Compute Engine Commitments in a region. Details for each commitment include name, ID, status, plan, type, resources, and creation, start and end timestamps. Requires project and region as input.
get_commitment_basic_info Get basic information about a Compute Engine Commitment, including its name, ID, status, plan, type, resources, and creation, start and end timestamps. Requires project, region, and commitment name as input.
list_snapshots Lists snapshots in a project providing basic information per snapshot including name, id, status, creation time, disk size, and storage bytes. Requires project as input.