get_product_vex
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Return the VEX MANIFEST for one of the caller's products — metadata,
not the document.
Multi-megabyte CycloneDX documents (up to 8,000+ vulnerability entries)
are not safe model-context payloads, so this tool returns a bounded
manifest: CycloneDX format/spec version, product id, generated/expires
timestamps, the VEX hash and the composite ETag identity, the
uncompressed size in bytes, total + per-status vulnerability counts,
and the authenticated REST download path. Reads from the 24h
ProductVexCache; if the cache is empty/expired the next call to
`get_product` (or the REST endpoint) will regenerate it.
The MANIFEST carries the same `kernelscan.io:exploit_maturity` /
`kernelscan.io:kev` overlay identity as the REST download
(backend#337), so ETags compare across transports.
To inspect the entries themselves, use `list_product_vex_entries`.
To retrieve the COMPLETE CycloneDX document, use the authenticated
REST endpoint `GET /api/products/{product_id}/vex` (same ks_live_
key) — that is the canonical way to retrieve the full artifact; no
MCP tool returns it.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| product_id | string | yes |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"product_id": {
"title": "Product Id",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"product_id"
],
"title": "get_product_vexArguments",
"type": "object"
}