MCP Tools Reference: auditmanager.googleapis.com

Tool: generate_audit_report

Registers a report generation request for a compliance framework. Returns a long-running operation ID. Scope format: 'projects/{project}/locations/{location}'. CRITICAL: For {location}, use the location specified by the user. If no location is specified, prompt the user to provide one. Do not use 'global'. The location must match the chosen Regional Endpoint (REP) region (e.g., us-central1). Framework format: 'organizations/{org}/locations/{location}/frameworks/{id}' or 'projects/{project}/locations/{location}/frameworks/{id}'. Example IDs: 'builtin-aipp', 'builtin-security-essentials'. If 'complianceFramework' is unknown, prompt the user for it. Suggest they list frameworks via: 'gcloud compliance-manager frameworks list --project={project} --location=global' or 'gcloud compliance-manager frameworks list --organization={organization_id} --location=global'

The following code sample shows how to use curl to call the generate_audit_report MCP tool.

Curl Request 
curl --location 'https://auditmanager.us-central1.rep.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "generate_audit_report",
    "arguments": {
      // provide these details according to the tool's MCP specification
    }
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1
}'

Input Schema

Request message for GenerateAuditReport.

GenerateAuditReportRequest

JSON representation 
{
  "scope": string,
  "complianceStandard": string,
  "reportFormat": enum (AuditReportFormat),
  "complianceFramework": string,
  "validateOnly": boolean,

  // Union field destination can be only one of the following:
  "gcsUri": string
  // End of list of possible types for union field destination.
}
Fields
scope

string

Required. Organization, folder, or project that the audit applies to, in one of the following formats:

  • projects/{project}/locations/{location}
  • folders/{folder}/locations/{location}
  • organizations/{organization}/locations/{location}
complianceStandard
(deprecated)

string

Optional. Deprecated. Compliance standard for the audit report.

Use the compliance_framework field instead.
reportFormat

enum (AuditReportFormat)

Required. Format for the audit report.
complianceFramework

string

Required. The framework that's used for the audit report. For example, NIST_800_53.
validateOnly

boolean

Optional. If true, only validates the request and does not generate the audit report. This executes standard request validation (such as schema, framework existence, scope, and IAM checks) and skips the apply phase.

Use this field for the following purposes: * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Allow tools like Terraform to run dry-run mutations (e.g., terraform plan) without creating real resources or incurring costs. * User Interface Validation: Enable real-time form and permission validation in custom UIs before submitting requests. * CI/CD & Automation: Test your scripts, permissions, and parameters safely without triggering expensive Long-Running Operations (LROs) or consuming resource quotas.
Union field destination. Options for the report destination location. destination can be only one of the following:
gcsUri

string

URL for the Cloud Storage bucket where the report and evidence is uploaded. You must select a bucket that was provided during the enrollment process.

AuditReportFormat

Format for the audit report.

Enums
AUDIT_REPORT_FORMAT_UNSPECIFIED Default value. This value is unused.
AUDIT_REPORT_FORMAT_ODF Open Document format.

Output Schema

This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call.

Operation

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "metadata": {
    "@type": string,
    field1: ...,
    ...
  },
  "done": boolean,

  // Union field result can be only one of the following:
  "error": {
    object (Status)
  },
  "response": {
    "@type": string,
    field1: ...,
    ...
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field result.
}
Fields
name

string

The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the name should be a resource name ending with operations/{unique_id}.
metadata

object

Service-specific metadata associated with the operation. It typically contains progress information and common metadata such as create time. Some services might not provide such metadata. Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.
done

boolean

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress. If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.
Union field result. The operation result, which can be either an error or a valid response. If done == false, neither error nor response is set. If done == true, exactly one of error or response can be set. Some services might not provide the result. result can be only one of the following:
error

object (Status)

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.
response

object

The normal, successful response of the operation. If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete, the response is google.protobuf.Empty. If the original method is standard Get/Create/Update, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type XxxResponse, where Xxx is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is TakeSnapshot(), the inferred response type is TakeSnapshotResponse.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.

Any

JSON representation 
{
  "typeUrl": string,
  "value": string
}
Fields
typeUrl

string

Identifies the type of the serialized Protobuf message with a URI reference consisting of a prefix ending in a slash and the fully-qualified type name.

Example: type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue

This string must contain at least one / character, and the content after the last / must be the fully-qualified name of the type in canonical form, without a leading dot. Do not write a scheme on these URI references so that clients do not attempt to contact them.

The prefix is arbitrary and Protobuf implementations are expected to simply strip off everything up to and including the last / to identify the type. type.googleapis.com/ is a common default prefix that some legacy implementations require. This prefix does not indicate the origin of the type, and URIs containing it are not expected to respond to any requests.

All type URL strings must be legal URI references with the additional restriction (for the text format) that the content of the reference must consist only of alphanumeric characters, percent-encoded escapes, and characters in the following set (not including the outer backticks): /-.~_!$&()*+,;=. Despite our allowing percent encodings, implementations should not unescape them to prevent confusion with existing parsers. For example, type.googleapis.com%2FFoo should be rejected.

In the original design of Any, the possibility of launching a type resolution service at these type URLs was considered but Protobuf never implemented one and considers contacting these URLs to be problematic and a potential security issue. Do not attempt to contact type URLs.
value

string (bytes format)

Holds a Protobuf serialization of the type described by type_url.

A base64-encoded string.

Status

JSON representation 
{
  "code": integer,
  "message": string,
  "details": [
    {
      "@type": string,
      field1: ...,
      ...
    }
  ]
}
Fields
code

integer

The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code.
message

string

A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client.
details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.

Tool Annotations

Tool annotations are sent to MCP clients to describe the basic risk of a given tool. Most clients treat these hints as untrusted, but they can be used to decide when a confirmation prompt might be sent to a user.

Along with the title string, the following boolean hints are defined as follows:

  • readOnlyHint: If true, the tool doesn't modify its environment. Default: false.
  • destructiveHint: If true, then the tool can perform destructive actions. If false, then the tool can only perform additive actions. Default: true.
  • idempotentHint: If true, then calling the tool repeatedly with the same arguments will have no additional effect on its environment. Default: false.
  • openWorldHint: If true, then the tool can interact with an 'open world' of external entities. If false, then the tool can only interact with internal entities. For example, a web search tool would be open world, while a memory tool would not be open world.

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