Construction: RFI And Submittal Review with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary

A production playbook for RFI and submittal review in construction operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Construction project teams

The problem

Construction project teams need RFI and submittal review to run repeatedly against RFIs, submittals, drawings, specs, change orders, and project notes. In construction operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.

Implementation path

Expose only the MCP tools needed for RFI and submittal review, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.

Tradeoffs and failure modes

Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. For RFI and submittal review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.

Tool policy

tool: construction-rfi-submittal-review_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted

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