MCP Tools Reference: compute.googleapis.com

Tool: stop_instance

Stops a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is DONE without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the get_zone_operation tool.

The following sample demonstrate how to use curl to invoke the stop_instance MCP tool.

Curl Request 
                  
curl --location 'https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "stop_instance",
    "arguments": {
      // provide these details according to the tool's MCP specification
    }
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1
}'

Input Schema

Request message for stopping an instance.

McpStopInstanceRequest

JSON representation 
{
  "project": string,
  "zone": string,
  "name": string
}
Fields
project

string

Required. Project ID for this request.
zone

string

Required. The zone of the instance.
name

string

Required. Identifier. The instance name.

Output Schema

Response message for stopping an instance.

McpStopInstanceResponse

JSON representation 
{
  "operationName": string
}
Fields
operationName

string

The operation name of the instance stop.

Tool Annotations

Destructive Hint: ✅ | Idempotent Hint: ❌ | Read Only Hint: ❌ | Open World Hint: ❌