Add staged bulk concept creation with MCP support

[filiperochalopes]

User story

As a curator, I want to stage the creation of multiple concepts at once so I can review a bulk concept creation set before committing it to CIEL.

Use case

Upload or generate a batch of new concepts with the minimum required data, review the staged concepts in CIEL Lab, and create them in bulk. The same capability should also be available to MCP workflows.

Requirements

• Add a bulk concept creation workflow in CIEL Lab.
• Allow multiple new concepts to be staged before creation.
• Validate each staged concept against the minimum required create rules.
• Allow the staged batch to be reviewed before submission.
• Create all valid concepts through the existing CIEL/OCL creation flow.
• Expose the same bulk creation capability to the MCP App/tooling.
• Reuse the existing single-concept creation defaults where applicable.

Acceptance criteria

• Given a valid batch of new concepts, the user can stage and review them before creation.
• Invalid rows are identified before the bulk create operation is executed.
• Valid staged concepts can be created in bulk.
• MCP workflows can invoke the same bulk concept creation capability.
• Concepts created through bulk creation follow the same defaults and validation rules as single-concept creation.

Questions to be decided

• What is the minimum required input for each concept?
• Is English FSN alone sufficient?
• Which locale should be required or defaulted?
• Should the default concept class remain Misc?
• Should the default datatype be N/A or Text?
• Which additional fields should be optionally accepted in the initial bulk format?
• Should one invalid row block the entire batch or should valid rows still be creatable?
• What input formats should be supported initially (CSV, spreadsheet, MCP-generated JSON, etc.)?
• Should MCP-generated batches always require a human review/staging step before creation?

More details

Context

CIEL Lab currently supports QA Bulk Validation and bulk concept updates that add names and mappings through MCP workflows, but there is no equivalent tool for creating multiple new concepts.

The intended direction is a staged bulk-upload workflow rather than direct blind creation. It should support a minimum-content format and later be reusable by the MCP widget so conversational workflows can propose multiple new concepts for review and creation.

The exact minimum dataset and batch behavior are intentionally TBD and should be agreed before implementation.

[askanter]

English FSN, Class and Datatype required minimally, I think. No default on creation. Would be nice to support any additional field such as attributes, description, etc. Mappings definitely are needed.

[ocl-automation]

Automated Triage — 2026-08-10

Dimension	Score
Complexity	4
Scope	4
Clarity	3
Dependency	2
Risk	3

Decision: decision/planning-needed
Type: type/feature
Signals: signal/large-scope

Complex feature requiring staging workflow, bulk operations, MCP integration, and UI components across multiple modules. Requirements list the goal and key components but lacks detailed acceptance criteria and edge case handling.

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[filiperochalopes]

Do we have a real use case for this so I can clarify why and how to do it? Are we thinking about push proposals from community at once @askanter?

[filiperochalopes]

It's a huge feature @askanter. Do you think whats we have using OCL Bulk Import is not enough for it? In my conception you are describing what OCL Bulk import already does. You would need at most a Claude SKILL to translate spreadsheets or similar to it's form. Please let me know how to you want to proceed

[askanter]

Don’t we want to somehow wrap the bulk import so we can do qa, transform an mcp output to the correct format, etc.?

[filiperochalopes]

We can achieve it with a CLAUDE skill instead of a whole CIEL Lab feature and use LLM-generated table/spreadsheet to assert quality

[filiperochalopes]

You can already test this repo skills

https://github.com/filiperochalopes/ocl-skills

Follow this to add the Skill do your Claude Desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMf9ftKlJ60

It won't create anything on OCL. Just will help you create a bulk import file with ours CIEL's rules. Do some tests against CIEL staging first to understand more about how a skill could be useful and its limitations.

Create self mapping with this approach is blocked by #2683

[filiperochalopes]

/uat @askanter

[askanter]

Let's walk through this together. I don't understand the install procedure and how to combine the video instructions with the skill repo.