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MCP prompts

Besides tools, the server answers prompts/list and prompts/get. initialize and server/discover advertise the prompts capability. A prompt returns one user message with step-by-step guidance; its text is the matching skill, with your arguments filled in. All arguments are optional strings (up to 500 characters). An argument you do not send reads not specified.

Prompt Title Arguments Based on
design_course Design a course subject, audience, length moodle-course-design
create_quiz_from_content Create a quiz from content courseId, source, cmid, questionCount, questionTypes moodle-course-design
grade_assignment Grade an assignment cmid, userId, focus moodle-grading

design_course

How to design and build a Moodle course with these tools, then check the structure.

  • subject: what the course teaches.
  • audience: who the students are.
  • length: how long the course is, for example 8 weeks.

create_quiz_from_content

Draft a quiz from a topic or an existing activity, show it, then save after confirmation.

  • courseId: course id or short name, if it is already known.
  • source: topic or content to base the questions on.
  • cmid: optional course module id of the page, label or resource to read.
  • questionCount: how many questions to write.
  • questionTypes: question types to use, for example multichoice and truefalse.

grade_assignment

How to read a submission and propose a grade. Nothing is saved until the teacher confirms. See Grading with dryRun.

  • cmid: assignment course module id, if it is already known.
  • userId: student user id, if it is already known.
  • focus: what the teacher asked you to look for.

Example

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 3, "method": "prompts/get",
 "params": {"name": "design_course", "arguments": {"subject": "Intro to statistics", "audience": "First-year students", "length": "8 weeks"}}}

An unknown prompt name or argument returns an error.