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Agents could get and set custom property values, and create tags, but they could not create a new custom property definition. This adds CreateCustomProperty to the properties toolset so an agent can add a structured field (string, number, boolean, date, select, select_number, entity, or link) for the user's team or personal set.

The tool is treated exactly like an axum route: parse params into CreatePropertyDefinitionRequest, mint the caller's team receipt (same as PropertyTeamExtractor), call PropertiesService::create_property_definition once, map domain errors to agent-facing text. It is distinct from CreateTag (colored labels); SetEntityProperty now points at this tool for creating a new field.

Domain changes (shared by HTTP, import, and the tool)

  • create_property_definition now returns PropertyDefinitionWithOptions. The repo already inserted options in the same transaction; create_property_option_tx returns the inserted rows and they come back through the port. The HTTP route and import keep their existing PropertyDefinition results via .definition — no API contract change.
  • Option validation (empty, non-finite, duplicate values) lives in CreatePropertyDefinitionRequest::validate_options in models_properties.
  • Duplicate display name is a typed CreatePropertyDefinitionOutcome::DuplicateDisplayName from the repo (unique-index violation on the definition insert), mapped to PropertiesErr::DuplicatePropertyName → HTTP 409 (was a 500). Tag-set provisioning uses the same outcome for its lost-race path.
  • PropertyOptionValue implements Display; CreatePropertyScope derives JsonSchema; data_type_name and ToolPropertyOption conversions are shared across the toolset.

What stays in the tool, and why

  • Flat params → PropertyDataType conversion (same pattern as SetEntityProperty::to_set_property_value). Combinations the nested API type cannot represent (multi on a scalar, options on a non-select, referenced_entity_type on a non-entity) are rejected during conversion rather than silently dropped.
  • "select needs at least one options entry" is conditional-required-field validation. It mirrors the create-property UI (VALIDATION_MIN_OPTIONS) and is deliberately not a domain invariant: crates/import creates select definitions with no options and fills them in as values are imported.

Test plan

  • cargo test -p properties — 217 passed against live Postgres (domain: duplicate-name conflict, option validation before repo, options returned from create; outbound: options come back with persisted ids in display order; toolset: schema + mapping)
  • cargo test -p import — 45 passed
  • cargo test -p models_properties --lib — 13 passed (validate_options cases)
  • cargo clippy -p properties -p import -p ai_tools -p models_properties -- -D warnings
  • bun check in apps/web; frontend renderer unit test (CreateCustomProperty.test.tsx); generated tool types + MCP docs regenerated from the Rust schema
  • Manual (earlier revision): agent created a personal select property "QA Department" with Engineering/Sales; tool UI showed created property + options; row persisted in MacroDB
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Let agents create team or personal custom property definitions (string, number, boolean, date, select, entity, link) without going through the HTTP API. Distinguishes from CreateTag and returns the new definition id plus select options for SetEntityProperty.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
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  • New Features

    • Added an AI tool for creating custom properties with configurable types, scopes, options, multi-value support, and entity restrictions.
    • Added visual feedback for property creation, including type, scope, options, and the created property ID.
    • Added guidance for using custom properties with entity property tools.
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    • Added a dedicated custom property tool reference and updated navigation and property concepts documentation.
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    • Added coverage for tool rendering, validation, option handling, and entity property configuration.

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Adds the CreateCustomProperty MCP tool for team and personal properties. The tool validates names, types, options, multi-value settings, and entity restrictions. It creates properties, returns structured responses, and maps creation errors. The properties toolset and web AI renderer now register the tool. New tests cover schema generation, request conversion, option validation, entity mapping, and renderer states. Documentation describes the tool, parameters, navigation, and its relationship with SetEntityProperty.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d0488

This PR adds an AI-accessible way to create persistent personal or team property definitions. The current implementation can silently ignore multi-value requests for scalar fields, accept duplicate numeric choices, report success without option IDs after a lookup failure, and leave interrupted retries ambiguous. These bounded correctness and reliability risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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apps/docs/AI/mcp/tools/create-custom-property.mdx (1)

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Rewrite the description as concise, second-person sentences.

Lines 3 and 8 combine creation, scope, duplicate handling, options, and entity restrictions into long sentences. They also refer to the user instead of you. Split the description into short sentences and format tool identifiers as code references when you regenerate it.

As per coding guidelines, use active voice and second person (“you”), keep sentences concise with one idea per sentence, and use code formatting for code references.

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In `@apps/docs/AI/mcp/tools/create-custom-property.mdx` at line 3, Rewrite the
tool description as concise, active-voice, second-person sentences using “you.”
Separate creation, scope, duplicate handling, options, multi-select, and entity
restrictions into distinct sentences, and format tool names, parameters, values,
and identifiers as code references. Preserve all existing behavior and guidance
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In `@apps/docs/AI/mcp/tools/create-custom-property.mdx`:
- Around line 1-4: Update the MCP tool generator or authoritative Rust schemas
in crates/ai_tools rather than editing generated pages directly, then regenerate
all affected references: create-custom-property.mdx lines 1-4, index.mdx line
19, and set-entity-property.mdx lines 3 and 27. Ensure the generated output
includes the new tool registration and descriptions/guidance from the single
source of truth.
- Line 17: Update the options description for select_number to state that each
value must be a numeric string, matching the existing string[] declaration and
example; leave the schema and implementation unchanged.

In `@apps/docs/concepts/properties.mdx`:
- Line 57: Update the documentation sentence beginning “Agents read and write
properties” to address the reader directly with “You can read and write
properties,” while preserving the existing MCP tool references and link.

In `@crates/properties/src/inbound/toolset/create_custom_property.rs`:
- Around line 231-247: Update select_number_options to deduplicate after parsing
each trimmed value as f64, rejecting repeated numeric values such as “1” and
“1.0” before constructing SelectNumberOption. Preserve the existing
invalid-number error and display-order behavior, and return a tool error when a
parsed value is duplicated.
- Around line 152-170: Update the scalar branches in the custom property
data-type conversion handling for ToolPropertyDataType::String, Number, Boolean,
and Date to reject multi: true before returning their scalar PropertyDataType
variants, using the existing validation helpers and preserving current
select/entity field checks.
- Around line 325-341: The get_property_options error handling in the newly
created property response must not convert lookup failures into a successful
empty options list. Update the unwrap_or_else branch to return a recoverable
error, or preserve the created option details when available, so select
properties still expose the option IDs required by SetEntityProperty.

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In `@apps/docs/AI/mcp/tools/create-custom-property.mdx`:
- Line 3: Rewrite the tool description as concise, active-voice, second-person
sentences using “you.” Separate creation, scope, duplicate handling, options,
multi-select, and entity restrictions into distinct sentences, and format tool
names, parameters, values, and identifiers as code references. Preserve all
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cursoragent and others added 4 commits August 29, 2026 03:17
Reject multi on scalar types, treat equivalent select_number values as
duplicates, and surface option-load failures with the new definition id
so the agent does not create another property. Regenerate tool docs from
the Rust schema wording.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
Move the create-definition rules the tool had reimplemented into the
places that already own them so they cannot drift:

- Option validation (empty, non-finite, duplicate values) now lives in
  CreatePropertyDefinitionRequest::validate, so the HTTP API and the tool
  share it; the tool only parses numeric strings and shapes the request.
- Display-name collisions come back from the repo as
  CreatePropertyDefinitionOutcome::DuplicateDisplayName and surface as
  PropertiesErr::DuplicatePropertyName (HTTP 409) instead of the tool
  sniffing unique-index names out of error text. Tag-set provisioning
  uses the same outcome for its lost-race path.
- Reuse CreatePropertyScope (now JsonSchema) instead of a parallel tool
  enum; share data_type_name and ToolPropertyOption From impls across
  the toolset; give PropertyOptionValue a Display impl and use it in
  every tool that rendered option labels by hand.
- Team scope no longer pre-checks membership in the tool; the domain's
  TeamMembershipRequired is mapped once.

Regenerated frontend tool types and MCP docs from the Rust schema.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
…se case

The repo already inserted select options in the same transaction as the
definition but returned only the definition, so the tool had to make a
second get_property_options call and handle a partial-failure window
between them. create_property_definition now returns
PropertyDefinitionWithOptions from the outbound port through the service,
and the CreateCustomProperty tool is one service call with no branching:
parse params, mint the caller's team receipt exactly as the HTTP route's
PropertyTeamExtractor does, call the service, map errors.

The HTTP route and import keep their existing PropertyDefinition results
via .definition, so no API contract changes.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
…n changes

The properties OpenAPI surface changed (CreatePropertyScope doc, new 409
on POST /properties/definitions) without the derived apps/web client and
packages/sdk spec/types being regenerated, which failed the freshness
checks. Output of `just update-generated` in packages/sdk.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
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