list_recent_runs — List recent endpoint executions

list_recent_runs — List recent endpoint executions

Filter execution summaries by HTTP status, exact path or script and page backward.

Stable Viat 1.1.0. Start with MCP configuration and result handling. The examples below are synthetic, source-derived expected shapes, not executed responses. No service, provider or device was contacted to prepare this page.

Prerequisites and permissions

Requires membership in the selected project (any project role, including Viewer). A platform role alone is not project membership. The PAT must be valid and its scope must permit the route.

Use an activated isolated instance, configured server/bearer, and an existing mcp-lab project except for list_projects. Examples using existing assets/IDs assume the fixtures in the overview; replace synthetic IDs with the IDs returned there. They are not self-provisioning.

Complete input fields

Required is the exported input contract’s structural requirement, not the full conditional API validation. For optional fields, explicit JSON null deserializes like omission, including unconstrained JSON fields. Empty strings/arrays/objects are actual values, not omission. Numeric formats describe serialization bounds; runtime clamps/defaults are separate. Schema default:null on args is not its effective runtime default {}.

Field	Type	Required	Omission / explicit null	Constraints and meaning
before	string / null	no (may be conditional)	Not supplied to API; conditional rules below.; null = omitted.	Pagination cursor; tool-specific source/format below.
limit	integer / null	no (may be conditional)	20; max 200; null = omitted.	minimum: 0; format: “uint32”; Page size; effective default and bounds below.
path_eq	string / null	no (may be conditional)	Not supplied to API; conditional rules below.; null = omitted.	Exact path filter, not prefix.
project	string / null	no (may be conditional)	VIAT_PROJECT / current_project; else project_required; null = omitted.	Project slug; omission/null uses VIAT_PROJECT/current_project, otherwise project_required.
script	string / null	no (may be conditional)	Not supplied to API; conditional rules below.; null = omitted.	Execution script-name filter.
status_max	integer / null	no (may be conditional)	Not supplied to API; conditional rules below.; null = omitted.	minimum: 0; maximum: 65535; format: “uint16”; Inclusive maximum status filter, uint16.
status_min	integer / null	no (may be conditional)	Not supplied to API; conditional rules below.; null = omitted.	minimum: 0; maximum: 65535; format: “uint16”; Inclusive minimum status filter, uint16.

Behavior and validation

status_min/status_max are inclusive uint16 filters; path_eq is exact, not a prefix. script is a name. Limit defaults 20 and is capped at 200 in MCP; zero reaches the API rather than receiving a local minimum clamp. All absent/null filters are left out of the query.

Output and pagination

Object {items:Run[],next_before?:string}. Run: string request_id, created_at, method, path; integer status, latency_ms; optional strings error_kind, error_message, workflow_name. Missing optional values/cursor are omitted.

Pass the returned next_before as before with the same filters. Stop when it is omitted; do not fabricate timestamp cursors or assume every full page has a next page.

The value is JSON serialized inside one MCP content text block. Parse result.content[0].text as JSON. There is no promised structuredContent or outputSchema. Optional fields documented as omitted must not be assumed to exist with null.

Synthetic request and expected shape

After MCP initialize/initialized, send this tools/call request as one JSON line over stdio (pretty-printed here for readability).

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 3,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "list_recent_runs",
    "arguments": {
      "project": "mcp-lab",
      "limit": 20,
      "status_min": 500
    }
  }
}

Expected MCP envelope shape (IDs, timestamps, headers and computed values are illustrative, not deterministic assertions).

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 3,
  "result": {
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "{\"items\":[]}"
      }
    ],
    "isError": false
  }
}

Decoded JSON value in the text block:

{
  "items": []
}

Failures and recovery

Malformed filters/cursor can be refused upstream. This is execution history, not a health guarantee: missing history can reflect retention or logging policy.

All upstream tools can fail with expired/revoked tokens, PAT confinement, project access denial, activation, network or timeout errors. Missing project/default gives project_required; control-plane non-2xx gives http_4xx/http_5xx. See the exact shared error envelope and retry rules. Input deserialization/unknown tool failures can be JSON-RPC protocol errors before the tool-layer envelope; do not assume every failure has isError. A retryable flag is not an idempotency guarantee.

Side effects, verification and cleanup

Read-only: no asset is changed and no cleanup is required. Keep returned source, logs and identifiers private.

Verification is observational: inspect the documented result fields and use the corresponding read tools before and after any authorized mutation. Do not verify by sending production traffic or deleting unrelated objects.

Maintenance evidence

Input inventory: contracts/1.1.0/mcp-tools.json, tool list_recent_runs. Implementation/tests under the pinned product source: executions.rs; handlers/logs.rs; tests/it/tool_list_recent_runs.rs. Tool module filenames refer to crates/viat-mcp/src/tools/; API handlers refer to crates/viat-api/src/handlers/. Shared transport/error evidence: crates/viat-mcp/src/tools/service.rs, http.rs, error.rs; tests were inspected, not run for this documentation change.