capture_thought
Create a thought in the thought history, with metadata about the thought's type, quality, content, and relationships to other thoughts.
How to use it
capture_thought is exposed by the MCP Structured Thinking MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the capture_thought tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
FULL MCP STRUCTURED THINKING LISTINGOther tools in MCP Structured Thinking (17)
(optional): Starting point for a new thought branch
(optional): Identifier for the current branch
Clear all recorded thoughts and reset the server state.
Generate a comprehensive summary of the entire thinking process.
(optional): Whether this revises a previous thought
(optional): Whether additional thoughts are needed
Whether another thought should follow
Retrieve thoughts from long-term storage that share tags with the specified thought.
Revise a thought in the thought history, with metadata about the thought's type, quality, content, and relationships to other thoughts.
(optional): Number of thought being revised
(optional): Quality score (0.0 to 1.0)
Current thinking stage (e.g., "Problem Definition", "Analysis")
(optional): Categories or labels for the thought
The content of the current thought
The ID of the thought to revise
Current position in the sequence
Expected total number of thoughts