Gateway core

ClawQL Core is not a plugin — it is the always-composed gateway surface in clawql-api. There is no CLAWQL_ENABLE_* flag to disable these tools.

MCP tools

Tool	Role
search	Rank operations from the active merged spec index by natural-language intent
execute	Call a discovered operation by operationId (REST, Discovery, native GraphQL/gRPC)
audit	In-process ring buffer of tool events (not durable — use vault memory for compliance trails)
cache	Ephemeral in-process LRU key/value scratch state between tool calls

How it fits the plugin model

Optional horizontal plugins (clawql-memory, clawql-documents, …) register additional tools via Plugin.onRegister. Core tools are registered directly by the gateway and are never omitted from a standard clawql-mcp process.

Configuration

Core behavior is driven by spec selection (which APIs are in the merge) and global env such as:

• CLAWQL_PROVIDER, CLAWQL_BUNDLED_PROVIDERS, CLAWQL_SPEC_PATHS — see Bundled providers plugin
• CLAWQL_PROVIDER_AUTH_JSON, per-vendor tokens — see Configuration

Learn more

• MCP tools reference
• Search & execute walkthrough
• Audit & observability
• Session cache