developer-knowledge: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

DeveloperKnowledge MCP Server

This server provides access to documentation about Google developer products. It can search for relevant documents based on a query and retrieve the full content of those documents.

Tools

search_documents

This is the primary tool to search for documentation. It returns snippets of relevant documents, along with their names and URLs. If snippets are insufficient, use get_documents to retrieve full content.

When to use:

• Use this tool as the first step when a user asks a question about one of the covered Google developer products and you need to find relevant documentation.

When not to use:

• Do not use this tool if the user's question is not related to one of the covered Google developer products.
• Do not use this tool if you already have a document name and need its content; use get_documents instead.

Example: If a user asks "How do I create a Cloud Storage bucket?", you should call: print(developer_knowledge.search_documents(query="How to create a Cloud Storage bucket?"))

answer_query

Use this tool to let another model search for content and synthesize an answer. This can save tokens in your own context window. This can be helpful for summarizing complex results. answer_query returns citations for its response. If needed, you can fetch the full content of the citations using get_documents, just like you can with search_documents.

When to use:

• Use this to synthesize complex information without using as many tokens as search_documents.

When not to use:

• Do not use this tool if the user's question is not related to one of the covered Google developer products.
• Do not use this tool if you already have a document name and need its content; use get_documents instead.

get_documents

This tool retrieves the full content of multiple documents (up to 20) in a single call, based on their names.

When to use:

• After calling search_documents, if multiple results seem relevant but their snippets are insufficient to answer the user's question, use this tool to retrieve the full document content of up to 20 results in a single call, using the parent returned by search_documents.