The MCP tool was named `generate_job_file` from Stage 2 but it does
NOT generate PySpark code — the calling LLM writes the code in its own
context, and this tool only persists it to a file under
SPARK_EXECUTOR_JOBS_DIR so `spark-submit` can see it. The misleading
`generate_` prefix sent agents (and humans) looking for a code
generator that doesn't exist.
This commit folds three related polish changes into one (split later
with rebase -i if you want them as separate history):
1. The rename itself:
- `tools/generate.py` → `tools/write_job.py`
- `generate_job_file` → `write_job_file`
- `GenerateJobFileRequest` → `WriteJobFileRequest`
- `/generate_job_file` route → `/write_job_file`
- `operation_id="generate_job_file"` → `operation_id="write_job_file"`
The internal helper `core.job_writer.write_job_file` (which just
writes bytes to disk with no SQL guard) is imported with an
`_write_to_disk` alias to avoid the name collision with the
MCP-exposed function in the same module.
The description for the tool now explicitly states 'this tool
does NOT generate PySpark code. The calling LLM is expected to
have already written the code; this tool only persists it.'
2. Skill for LLM agents operating the service
(`docs/superpowers/skills/spark-executor-mcp-operate/SKILL.md`,
449 lines). Covers the 16 tools, the two-step prepare/confirm
flow, the dual-ID contract (job_id vs application_id), the
PendingSubmission state machine, the Connection profile, the
job-file workflow, the error reference, common pitfalls, and a
full end-to-end word-count example.
3. Default `executor_memory` lowered 4G → 2G
(`_DEFAULTS_TO_CONFIRM` in `server.py`). Mirrors the matching
change in `test_mcp_routes.py` and the 5 unit tests that
reference the default. Aligns with the lighter workloads the
service is sized for in its current container profile.
Also tracked in git for the first time:
- `docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-24-spark-executor-mcp.md`
(the original Stage 1/2/3 design plan, updated to use the new
tool name throughout).
Test rename:
- `tests/unit/test_generate_tool.py` → `test_write_job_tool.py`
- the new test file picks up an extra assertion that the SQL guard
rejects a `DROP TABLE` statement at write time.
243 tests pass (was 242; +1 new SQL-guard assertion). Zero regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fastapi-mcp uses each route's OpenAPI operationId as the MCP tool name
exposed to LLM clients (fastapi_mcp/server.py:619-620). When the
operation_id is omitted, FastAPI auto-generates a name like
`prepare_submit_job_prepare_submit_job_post` (function name + path +
method), which is verbose and ugly for the agent.
This change adds an explicit `operation_id=` to all 17 MCP tool
routes in spark_executor/server.py, named after the handler function
(stripping the leading underscore). Concretely, the LLM client now sees
tool names like `prepare_submit_job`, `confirm_submit_job`,
`get_job_status`, etc. — same as the route paths.
`/health` (the only non-MCP GET route) is left untouched; its
auto-generated name (`health_check_health_get`) is never exposed.
Also adds a regression test
`test_every_mcp_route_has_explicit_clean_operation_id` in
tests/integration/test_mcp_routes.py that:
* fetches the live OpenAPI spec,
* asserts every MCP tool route has an operationId,
* rejects FastAPI's auto-generated format (e.g. operationId ending
in `_post` / `_get`),
* asserts no two routes share an operationId (fastapi-mcp keys
its tool registry by name, so duplicates would shadow silently).
All 226 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an update_pending_job MCP tool that lets callers modify parameters
of a PENDING submission before confirm_submit_job:
- queue, executor_memory, executor_cores, num_executors
- app_name
- extra_args
- script_path (re-validates file existence and SQL guard)
Only PENDING submissions can be updated; SUBMITTED/CANCELLED/FAILED are
rejected with HTTP 400.
Restore defaults for queue/executor_memory/executor_cores/num_executors
in prepare_submit_job, but require the caller to explicitly confirm
them. If any defaulted field is omitted, the route returns HTTP 400
listing the defaults and asks the caller to resubmit with explicit
values.
app_name remains required (no meaningful default). extra_args remains
optional.
Tests cover rejection of unconfirmed defaults and acceptance of
explicitly confirmed defaults.
Remove defaults from queue, executor_memory, executor_cores,
num_executors, and app_name in prepare_submit_job. All must now be
explicitly confirmed by the caller.
Also add extra_args to the PendingSubmission snapshot so users can
confirm non-conf spark-submit flags (e.g. --jars, --py-files) at
prepare time; confirm_submit_job passes them through to
build_spark_submit_command.
This is an intentional breaking change to the MCP tool contract:
callers can no longer rely on implicit defaults.
Closes the review-and-edit loop for LLM-generated PySpark code:
generate_job_file(code=...) -> {script_path}
read_job_file(script_path=...) -> {content, path, size}
update_job_file(path, content) -> {path, bytes_written}
prepare_submit_job(path) -> {pending_id, ...}
Or, in a single edit cycle:
1. generate (LLM writes initial draft)
2. read (LLM or human inspects)
3. update (overwrite with edited version)
4. prepare (submit for two-step confirmation)
Safety:
- read_job_file has no path restriction (read-only; useful for
inspecting any file the agent can see: scripts, logs/, hadoop-conf/)
- update_job_file is sandboxed to settings.jobs_dir (the same dir
generate_job_file writes to). Rejects paths outside that tree,
including ../-traversal attempts. This protects host-mounted
configs (/etc/passwd, hadoop-conf/*) from being overwritten by
the agent.
- 1 MB cap on both reads and writes so MCP responses stay bounded.
Pydantic body models (ReadJobFileRequest, UpdateJobFileRequest) follow
the Stage 1 pattern so tools/call roundtrips long code strings without
the FastAPI query-length 422.
Tests (13 new):
- 9 unit tests: read success/missing/empty/dir, update success/outside/
relative-escape/missing/oversize/1mb+1, full edit cycle round-trip
- 4 integration tests: read via MCP, missing file 400, write+readback
via MCP, outside-jobs_dir rejection via MCP
163/146 still pass. Live verified end-to-end: generate -> read v1
-> update -> read v2; update /etc/passwd correctly 400'd with
'script_path must be under ... data/jobs/'.
The agent can now write PySpark that runs DROP/DELETE/UPDATE/etc. on
production tables. Add a static guard that rejects anything other than
SELECT and INSERT at two enforcement points:
1. generate_job_file: validates BEFORE writing to disk. Agent gets
immediate feedback ('rewrite to use only SELECT/INSERT') rather
than learning at submit time.
2. prepare_submit_job: re-validates the script content (reads the
file) as a defense-in-depth check. Catches host-mounted files,
manually-edited files, anything that bypassed generate_job_file.
How it works:
- common/sql_guard.py extracts Python string literals whose first
keyword is a SQL verb (catches spark.sql('...'), f-strings, and any
raw SQL literal)
- sqlparse splits each literal into statements; we check the first
keyword against the policy (SELECT/INSERT/WITH allowed; DROP,
DELETE, UPDATE, TRUNCATE, ALTER, CREATE, REPLACE, MERGE, GRANT,
REVOKE, SET, SHOW, KILL, EXEC, etc. forbidden)
- WITH recurses into the CTE body to catch WITH x AS (DROP ...) ...
- The MCP layer maps ValueError -> HTTP 400 (existing handler)
Test coverage:
- 28 unit tests in test_sql_guard.py cover: extraction (single/double/
f-string, English false positives, multi-literal), statement
classification (SELECT, INSERT, DROP, DELETE, UPDATE, TRUNCATE,
ALTER, CREATE, multi-statement, CTE bodies, comments)
- 2 integration tests verify MCP layer returns 400 with the policy
explanation at both generate_job_file and prepare_submit_job
Limitations (documented in sql_guard.py docstring):
- f-strings where the SQL is built at runtime (e.g. f'SELECT * FROM
{user_input}') look like SELECTs at static-analysis time. The
guard catches the static literal; the runtime substitution is the
caller's responsibility.
- pyspark.sql.functions.expr('...') accepts SQL inline; not currently
caught. (Future work.)
146/146 still pass. Live verified: DROP TABLE -> MCP 400 with policy
explanation; SELECT -> MCP 200 + file written to ./data/jobs/.
Two problems with the prior prepare_submit_job flow:
1. The agent could pass a script_path that only existed in its own
context (LLM-generated code not yet on disk) or a path on the host
filesystem that's invisible inside the container. The new check
surfaces this as a 400 with a clear remediation hint instead of
letting spark-submit fail later with an opaque FileNotFoundError -> 500.
2. The container-isolation issue: any path the agent gives is interpreted
inside the container. The two ways a file can legitimately exist there
are (a) generate_job_file(code=...) just wrote it to
SPARK_EXECUTOR_JOBS_DIR (the default ./data/jobs/ is the only
gitignored dir that survives restarts), or (b) a host dir was
mounted via -v. The error message spells both out so an agent can
self-correct.
Implementation:
- submit.py: new _check_script_path() that raises ValueError (-> 400)
when the path is missing, empty, or a directory. Called in both
prepare_submit_job and confirm_submit_job (defense in depth).
- prepare_submit_job checks the connection FIRST (KeyError -> 404)
before the script (ValueError -> 400), so an agent with both problems
sees the more fundamental 'unknown connection' error first.
- server.py / requests.py: route description and Pydantic field
description spell out the generate_job_file pattern so an LLM
reading the tool schema learns the right next step.
8 new tests; 8 existing tests adjusted to create real files (they used
synthetic /tmp/*.py paths that don't exist).
Exposes a single new MCP tool: generate_job_file(code) -> {script_path}.
Wiring follows the Stage 1 conventions (Pydantic body model for the
route, loguru DEBUG/INFO logging, summary+description for the startup
log, MCP arg-pattern via the body model so tools/call roundtrips long
code strings without 422-ing on FastAPI query length limits).
Flow:
1. LLM calls generate_job_file(code=...) -> {script_path}
2. LLM calls prepare_submit_job(connection=...,
script_path=...) -> {pending_id}
3. User reviews the file + pending record
4. LLM calls confirm_submit_job(pending_id=...) -> spark-submit runs
The output directory is SPARK_EXECUTOR_JOBS_DIR (default ./data/jobs/,
gitignored, persists across container restarts via the existing
./data volume mount in docker-compose.yml).
3 new tests:
- Unit: env-var override, default fallback in tmp cwd
- Integration: end-to-end body call with a > FastAPI-query-limit code
string (the canary test that would have caught the Stage 1
query-params-422 bug)
Live MCP smoke verified: tools/list shows 14 tools (13 from Stage 1 +
the new one), tools/call generate_job_file returns the absolute path
under ./data/jobs/.
Tool functions raise KeyError for unknown ids and ValueError for invalid
state transitions. Without handlers, FastAPI returned a bare 500
"Internal Server Error" to MCP clients — useless for an agent that needs
to know whether the id was wrong vs the cluster was down.
KeyError -> 404 with the message ("Unknown job_id: foo").
ValueError -> 400 with the message (e.g. "pending_id p_xyz is in status
'CANCELLED', not PENDING").
The plan's route signatures used query parameters, which worked for direct
HTTP callers and unit tests, but fastapi-mcp's HTTP transport passes
tools/call arguments as a JSON body. dict-typed parameters like
spark_conf arrived as a string and the route returned 422.
Refactor each route to take a single Pydantic body model (saved in
spark_executor/tools/requests.py). Underlying tool functions unchanged.
Integration tests in tests/integration/test_mcp_routes.py now exercise
the full body-based roundtrip (save_connection with spark_conf, prepare
→ list → get, list_connections with empty body).
