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dart-get-selected-widget

To find the currently selected Flutter widget in the running app, get the selected widget after connecting to the Dart Tooling Daemon.

personAuthor: jakexiaohubgithub

Usage

Use the MCP tool dev-swarm.request to send the payload as a JSON string:

{"server_id":"dart","tool_name":"get_selected_widget","arguments":{}}

Tool Description

Retrieves the selected widget from the active Flutter application. Requires "connect_dart_tooling_daemon" to be successfully called first.

Arguments Schema

The schema below describes the arguments object in the request payload.

{
  "type": "object"
}

Background Tasks

If the tool returns a task id, poll the task status via the MCP request tool:

{"server_id":"dart","method":"tasks/status","params":{"task_id":"<task_id>"}}