Issues/1546

examples/workflow-server/src/common/graph-extension.ts

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ export class TaskNodeBuilder<T extends TaskNode = TaskNode> extends GNodeBuilder
     protected createCompartmentHeader(): GLabel {
         return new GLabelBuilder(GLabel)
             .type(ModelTypes.LABEL_HEADING)
-            .id(this.proxy.id + '_classname')
+            .id(this.proxy.id + '_label')
             .text(this.proxy.name)
             .build();
     }
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ export class CategoryNodeBuilder<T extends Category = Category> extends Activity
     protected createCompartmentHeader(): GLabel {
         return new GLabelBuilder(GLabel)
             .type(ModelTypes.LABEL_HEADING)
-            .id(this.proxy.id + '_classname')
+            .id(this.proxy.id + '_label')
             .text(this.proxy.name)
             .build();
     }

examples/workflow-server/src/common/handler/create-decision-node-handler.ts

@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ export class CreateDecisionNodeHandler extends CreateActivityNodeHandler {
     label = 'Decision Node';
 
     protected override builder(point?: Point): ActivityNodeBuilder {
-        return super.builder(point).addCssClass('decision').resizeLocations(GResizeLocation.CROSS);
+        return super.builder(point).addCssClass('decision').resizeLocations(GResizeLocation.CROSS).size(32, 32);
     }
 }

examples/workflow-server/src/common/handler/create-merge-node-handler.ts

@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ export class CreateMergeNodeHandler extends CreateActivityNodeHandler {
     label = 'Merge Node';
 
     protected override builder(point: Point | undefined): ActivityNodeBuilder {
-        return super.builder(point).addCssClass('merge').resizeLocations(GResizeLocation.CROSS);
+        return super.builder(point).addCssClass('merge').resizeLocations(GResizeLocation.CROSS).size(32, 32);
     }
 }

examples/workflow-server/src/common/mcp/workflow-create-nodes-handler.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 EclipseSource and others.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+ * Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+ * with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ ********************************************************************************/
+
+import { GLabel, GModelElement } from '@eclipse-glsp/server';
+import { CreateNodesMcpToolHandler } from '@eclipse-glsp/server-mcp';
+import { injectable } from 'inversify';
+import { ModelTypes } from '../util/model-types';
+
+@injectable()
+export class WorkflowCreateNodesMcpToolHandler extends CreateNodesMcpToolHandler {
+    override getCorrespondingLabelId(element: GModelElement): string | undefined {
+        // Category labels are nested in a header component
+        if (element.type === ModelTypes.CATEGORY) {
+            return element.children.find(child => child.type === ModelTypes.COMP_HEADER)?.children.find(child => child instanceof GLabel)
+                ?.id;
+        }
+
+        // Assume that generally, labelled nodes have those labels as direct children
+        return element.children.find(child => child instanceof GLabel)?.id;
+    }
+}

examples/workflow-server/src/common/mcp/workflow-element-types-handler.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+/********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 EclipseSource and others.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+ * Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+ * with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ ********************************************************************************/
+
+import { DefaultTypes } from '@eclipse-glsp/server';
+import {
+    createResourceToolResult,
+    ElementTypesMcpResourceHandler,
+    GLSPMcpServer,
+    objectArrayToMarkdownTable,
+    ResourceHandlerResult
+} from '@eclipse-glsp/server-mcp';
+import { injectable } from 'inversify';
+import { ModelTypes } from '../util/model-types';
+import * as z from 'zod/v4';
+
+interface ElementType {
+    id: string;
+    label: string;
+    description: string;
+    hasLabel: boolean;
+}
+
+const WORKFLOW_NODE_ELEMENT_TYPES: ElementType[] = [
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.AUTOMATED_TASK,
+        label: 'Automated Task',
+        description: 'Task without human input',
+        hasLabel: true
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.MANUAL_TASK,
+        label: 'Manual Task',
+        description: 'Task done by a human',
+        hasLabel: true
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.JOIN_NODE,
+        label: 'Join Node',
+        description: 'Gateway that merges parallel flows',
+        hasLabel: false
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.FORK_NODE,
+        label: 'Fork Node',
+        description: 'Gateway that splits into parallel flows',
+        hasLabel: false
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.MERGE_NODE,
+        label: 'Merge Node',
+        description: 'Gateway that merges alternative flows',
+        hasLabel: false
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.DECISION_NODE,
+        label: 'Decision Node',
+        description: 'Gateway that splits into alternative flows',
+        hasLabel: false
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.CATEGORY,
+        label: 'Category',
+        description: 'Container node that groups other elements',
+        hasLabel: true
+    }
+];
+const WORKFLOW_EDGE_ELEMENT_TYPES: ElementType[] = [
+    {
+        id: DefaultTypes.EDGE,
+        label: 'Edge',
+        description: 'Standard control flow edge',
+        hasLabel: false
+    },
+    {
+        id: ModelTypes.WEIGHTED_EDGE,
+        label: 'Weighted Edge',
+        description: 'Edge that indicates a weighted probability. Typically used with a Decision Node.',
+        hasLabel: false
+    }
+];
+
+const WORKFLOW_ELEMENT_TYPES_STRING = [
+    '# Creatable element types for diagram type "workflow-diagram"',
+    '## Node Types',
+    objectArrayToMarkdownTable(WORKFLOW_NODE_ELEMENT_TYPES),
+    '## Edge Types',
+    objectArrayToMarkdownTable(WORKFLOW_EDGE_ELEMENT_TYPES)
+].join('\n');
+
+/**
+ * The default {@link ElementTypesMcpResourceHandler} extracts a list of operations generically from
+ * the `OperationHandlerRegistry`, because it can't know the details of a specific GLSP implementation.
+ * This is naturally quite limited in expression and relies on semantically meaningful model types to be
+ * able to inform an MCP client reliably.
+ *
+ * However, when overriding this for a specific implementation, we don't have those limitations. Rather,
+ * since the available element types do not change dynamically, we can simply provide a statically generated
+ * string.
+ */
+@injectable()
+export class WorkflowElementTypesMcpResourceHandler extends ElementTypesMcpResourceHandler {
+    override registerTool(server: GLSPMcpServer): void {
+        server.registerTool(
+            'element-types',
+            {
+                title: 'Creatable Element Types',
+                description:
+                    'List all element types (nodes and edges) that can be created for a specific diagram type. ' +
+                    'Use this to discover valid elementTypeId values for creation tools.',
+                inputSchema: {
+                    diagramType: z.string().describe('Diagram type whose elements should be discovered')
+                }
+            },
+            async params => createResourceToolResult(await this.handle(params))
+        );
+    }
+
+    override async handle({ diagramType }: { diagramType?: string }): Promise<ResourceHandlerResult> {
+        this.logger.info(`'element-types' invoked for diagram type '${diagramType}'`);
+
+        // In this specifc GLSP implementation, only 'workflow-diagram' is valid
+        if (diagramType !== 'workflow-diagram') {
+            return {
+                content: {
+                    uri: `glsp://types/${diagramType}/elements`,
+                    mimeType: 'text/plain',
+                    text: 'Invalid diagram type.'
+                },
+                isError: true
+            };
+        }
+
+        return {
+            content: {
+                uri: `glsp://types/${diagramType}/elements`,
+                mimeType: 'text/markdown',
+                text: WORKFLOW_ELEMENT_TYPES_STRING
+            },
+            isError: false
+        };
+    }
+}

examples/workflow-server/src/common/mcp/workflow-mcp-model-serializer.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 EclipseSource and others.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+ * Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+ * with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ ********************************************************************************/
+
+import { GModelElement } from '@eclipse-glsp/graph';
+import { DefaultTypes } from '@eclipse-glsp/server';
+import { DefaultMcpModelSerializer } from '@eclipse-glsp/server-mcp';
+import { injectable } from 'inversify';
+import { ModelTypes } from '../util/model-types';
+
+/**
+ * As compared to the {@link DefaultMcpModelSerializer}, this is a specific implementation and we
+ * know not only the structure of our graph but also each relevant attribute. This enables us to
+ * order them semantically so the produced serialization makes more sense if read with semantics
+ * mind. As LLMs (i.e., the MCP clients) work semantically, this is superior to a random ordering.
+ * Furthermore, including only the relevant information without redundancies decreases context size.
+ */
+@injectable()
+export class WorkflowMcpModelSerializer extends DefaultMcpModelSerializer {
+    override prepareElement(element: GModelElement): Record<string, Record<string, any>[]> {
+        const elements = this.flattenStructure(element);
+
+        // Define the order of keys
+        const result: Record<string, Record<string, any>[]> = {
+            [DefaultTypes.GRAPH]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.CATEGORY]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.AUTOMATED_TASK]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.MANUAL_TASK]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.FORK_NODE]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.JOIN_NODE]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.DECISION_NODE]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.MERGE_NODE]: [],
+            [DefaultTypes.EDGE]: [],
+            [ModelTypes.WEIGHTED_EDGE]: []
+        };
+        elements.forEach(element => {
+            this.combinePositionAndSize(element);
+
+            const adjustedElement = this.adjustElement(element);
+            if (!adjustedElement) {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            result[element.type].push(adjustedElement);
+        });
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    private adjustElement(element: Record<string, any>): Record<string, any> | undefined {
+        switch (element.type) {
+            case ModelTypes.AUTOMATED_TASK:
+            case ModelTypes.MANUAL_TASK: {
+                const label = element.children.find((child: { type: string }) => child.type === ModelTypes.LABEL_HEADING);
+
+                // For tasks, the only content with impact on element size is the label
+                // Therefore, all other factors get integrated into the label size for the AI to do proper resizing operations
+                const labelSize = {
+                    // 10px padding right, 31px padding left (incl. icon)
+                    width: Math.trunc(label.size.width + 10 + 31),
+                    // 7px padding top and bottom each
+                    height: Math.trunc(label.size.height + 14)
+                };
+
+                return {
+                    id: element.id,
+                    position: element.position,
+                    size: element.size,
+                    bounds: element.bounds,
+                    label: label.text,
+                    labelSize: labelSize,
+                    parentId: element.parent.type === ModelTypes.STRUCTURE ? element.parent.parent.id : element.parentId
+                };
+            }
+            case ModelTypes.CATEGORY: {
+                const label = element.children
+                    .find((child: { type: string }) => child.type === ModelTypes.COMP_HEADER)
+                    ?.children.find((child: { type: string }) => child.type === ModelTypes.LABEL_HEADING);
+
+                const labelSize = {
+                    width: Math.trunc(label.size.width + 20),
+                    height: Math.trunc(label.size.height + 20)
+                };
+
+                const usableSpaceSize = {
+                    width: Math.trunc(Math.max(0, element.size.width - 10)),
+                    height: Math.trunc(Math.max(0, element.size.height - labelSize.height - 10))
+                };
+
+                return {
+                    id: element.id,
+                    isContainer: true,
+                    position: element.position,
+                    size: element.size,
+                    bounds: element.bounds,
+                    label: label.text,
+                    labelSize: labelSize,
+                    usableSpaceSize: usableSpaceSize,
+                    parentId: element.parentId
+                };
+            }
+            case ModelTypes.JOIN_NODE:
+            case ModelTypes.MERGE_NODE:
+            case ModelTypes.DECISION_NODE:
+            case ModelTypes.FORK_NODE: {
+                return {
+                    id: element.id,
+                    position: element.position,
+                    size: element.size,
+                    bounds: element.bounds,
+                    parentId: element.parentId
+                };
+            }
+            case DefaultTypes.EDGE: {
+                return {
+                    id: element.id,
+                    sourceId: element.sourceId,
+                    targetId: element.targetId,
+                    parentId: element.parentId
+                };
+            }
+            case ModelTypes.WEIGHTED_EDGE: {
+                return {
+                    id: element.id,
+                    sourceId: element.sourceId,
+                    targetId: element.targetId,
+                    probability: element.probability,
+                    parentId: element.parentId
+                };
+            }
+            case DefaultTypes.GRAPH: {
+                return {
+                    id: element.id,
+                    isContainer: true
+                };
+            }
+            default:
+                return undefined;
+        }
+    }
+}