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xarmian a28927c51e feat(mcp): add typed schema param to pad_collection.create (TASK-1335) (#483)
* feat(mcp): add typed schema param to pad_collection.create (TASK-1335)

TASK-1334 shipped the CLI --schema flag for BUG-1284. This wires the
same capability through the MCP surface so agents calling pad_collection
get a structured object parameter rather than a stringified DSL —
matching how every other Pad-native data structure (items, comments,
etc.) flows through MCP.

Three coordinated changes:

  1. internal/mcp/catalog.go — add "object" Type to ParamDef, mapped to
     mcp-go's WithObject. Generic addition; the schema param is the first
     consumer.

  2. internal/mcp/catalog_collection.go — declare schema (object) param
     on pad_collection.create alongside the existing fields (string)
     param. Tool description now points agents at schema for
     terminal_options, defaults, computed fields, suffixes, and relation
     collections (everything the DSL cannot express), and notes the
     fields/schema mutual exclusion.

  3a. internal/mcp/dispatch.go — BuildCLIArgs now JSON-encodes
      non-string structured values via a new encodeFlagValue helper. The
      ExecDispatcher path (`pad mcp serve`) hands MCP input through to
      the CLI's --schema flag as inline JSON; previously fmt.Sprint(map)
      produced garbage Go-syntax. Generic — applies to any future flag
      that accepts JSON.

  3b. internal/mcp/dispatch_http_routes.go — mapCollectionCreate accepts
      `schema` (object or stringified JSON) alongside `fields`, errors
      if both are set, and backfills missing field labels using
      titleCaseLabel so HTTPHandlerDispatcher MCP clients see the same
      rendering as CLI users.

Tests cover: object→JSON encoding in BuildCLIArgs, array→JSON encoding,
structured schema input round-trips through mapCollectionCreate with
terminal_options preserved, missing-label backfill, stringified-JSON
fallback shape, both-flags rejection, malformed-JSON rejection.

Parent: PLAN-1333.

* fix(mcp): normalize empty/null schema input to absent per Codex round 1

Codex flagged a transport mismatch: the CLI treats `--schema ""` as
absent (falls through to --fields), but the HTTP dispatcher treated
schema=null or schema="" as set, triggering the mutually-exclusive
guard against fields or an invalid-JSON error from unmarshal.

Fix: in mapCollectionCreate, normalize nil and empty/whitespace strings
to "schema absent" before the mutex check. Keeps both transports
symmetric so MCP clients sending optional-arg defaults (null/empty) get
identical behavior to CLI users passing --schema "".

Test: TestMapCollectionCreate_EmptySchemaFallsThroughToFields covers
nil, "", and whitespace-only inputs in subtests, asserting the request
body uses the --fields-parsed schema.

Parent: PLAN-1333 / TASK-1335.
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