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# Projects and workflow authoring

Choose a tool by the result you need. Read tools inspect resources. Change tools save or publish data. Run tools execute a workflow or evaluator.

| Tool                                                                                                                         | Effect | Use it to                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [projects\_list](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-list.md)                               | Read   | Discover accessible project IDs, names, owners, project URLs and is\_published.                                                                                                             |
| [projects\_get](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-get.md)                                 | Read   | Read project metadata, UI/input configuration and a paginated graph. version="published" is the default, but falls back to draft when no published version exists; inspect source\_version. |
| [projects\_create](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-create.md)                           | Change | Generate a new project from a natural-language description and attempt to publish it.                                                                                                       |
| [projects\_edit](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-edit.md)                               | Change | Modify an existing draft with exactly one of description or direct\_patch.                                                                                                                  |
| [projects\_edit\_ui](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-edit-ui.md)                        | Change | Merge updates into a draft’s UI options without changing nodes or edges.                                                                                                                    |
| [projects\_import](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-import.md)                           | Change | Create a new draft from a parsed exported workflow\_json object, optionally overriding project\_name and folder\_id.                                                                        |
| [projects\_validate](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-validate.md)                       | Read   | Run preflight checks on the saved draft, including graph integrity, providers/actions, connections and action parameters.                                                                   |
| [projects\_validate\_flow\_json](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-validate-flow-json.md) | Read   | Validate an unsaved flow\_json object containing nodes and edges without saving it.                                                                                                         |
| [projects\_get\_corrections](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-get-corrections.md)        | Read   | Revalidate the current draft’s action parameters and page through corrections.                                                                                                              |
| [projects\_run](/stackai-mcp/tool-reference/projects-and-workflow-authoring/projects-run.md)                                 | Run    | Run a published project and return its output.                                                                                                                                              |


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