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Stacked on #1, which repairs the build. The last commit is the only one specific to this PR.

ng-devtools_highlight, _inspect-signals and _inspect-providers each advertise no parameters:

"inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": {} }

while all three handlers read args.selector. An MCP client has no way to discover the argument, and a wrong guess fails silently:

tools/call ng-devtools_highlight {"componentSelector": "app-root"}
-> "Highlighted `undefined` in the page overlay."

Added a raw inputSchema to each. Verified over stdio that tools/list now advertises selector as required and the handler receives it.

Used inputSchema rather than the preferred args, because args advertises positional arg0 and passes the payload through unchanged, so handlers reading args.selector would break. valibot also exposes no ~standard.jsonSchema, so args would degrade to {type: "object", additionalProperties: true} and lose the description.

Two other things I ran into while testing the MCP server, not fixed here:

  • get-routes, get-components, get-signals and get-providers fail every tools/call with -32602, because they return v.array(...) and devframe advertises an object outputSchema for it. Fix submitted upstream as fix(agentic): do not advertise an output schema devframe cannot derive devframes/devframe#400.
  • inspect-signals / inspect-providers always return {} rather than their "No signal graph available" fallback. my.rpc.broadcast is Promise<void> and never rejects, so the catch is unreachable. Happy to open a separate PR if you want a particular shape for it.

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  • New Features

    • DevTools agent tools now define and validate their expected selector input, improving reliability when highlighting elements and inspecting signals or providers.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved compatibility for development tooling imports and build output.
    • Updated application test coverage to verify navigation links and routing behavior.

- use .ts import specifiers in devframe.ts; the package has no build
  step and Node's type stripping does not remap .js to .ts
- enable allowImportingTsExtensions and rewriteRelativeImportExtensions
  in tsconfig.app.json so ng build still compiles src/server.ts
- declare cac, an optional peer of devframe that nothing installs but
  both bin.mjs call through createCac
- provide Router in app.spec.ts and drop the assertion on an h1 that
  app.html no longer renders
highlight, inspect-signals and inspect-providers each advertised
`inputSchema: { type: 'object', properties: {} }` while their handlers
read `args.selector`, so an MCP client had no way to discover the
argument and a wrong guess failed silently.
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The change adds cac, enables TypeScript extension rewriting, adds required selector schemas to three agent tools, and updates the application test to provide a router and verify navigation links.

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Build and import configuration
packages/ng-devtools/package.json, tsconfig.app.json, packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts
The package adds cac. The compiler allows .ts imports and rewrites relative extensions during emit. RPC and type imports use .ts extensions.
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packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts
ng-devtools:highlight, ng-devtools:inspect-signals, and ng-devtools:inspect-providers require a string selector input.
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src/app/app.spec.ts
The test provides an empty router and verifies that navigation links have href values / and /about.

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The updated application tests can fail before assertions run because HttpClient is not provided. Add the provider before merging.

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