# mesh-sdk for C The skeleton (novox/hq ADR 0188): `mesh_serve(name, tools, count)` speaks MCP over stdio to the node's tool runtime. A `mesh_tool` is a name, a description, an argument schema and a function returning JSON. A tool named `.` is the seat's implementation. JSON is jansson's, the one dependency. What it holds, under ADR 0039's test: the stdio loop and the tool type. Nothing else — no bus, no client, nothing of any module's. `make` and pipe a `tools/list` request into `./example`.