diff --git a/deploy/docker/server.py b/deploy/docker/server.py
index 62e4e4413..b79c229e6 100644
--- a/deploy/docker/server.py
+++ b/deploy/docker/server.py
@@ -308,6 +308,17 @@ async def get_markdown(
     body: MarkdownRequest,
     _td: Dict = Depends(token_dep),
 ):
+    """
+    Convert a web page into Markdown format.
+
+    Supports multiple extraction modes:
+    - fit (default): Readability-based extraction for clean content
+    - raw: Direct DOM to Markdown conversion
+    - bm25: BM25 relevance ranking with optional query
+    - llm: LLM-based summarization with optional query
+
+    Use this tool when you need clean, readable text from web pages.
+    """
     if not body.url.startswith(("http://", "https://")) and not body.url.startswith(("raw:", "raw://")):
         raise HTTPException(
             400, "Invalid URL format. Must start with http://, https://, or for raw HTML (raw:, raw://)")
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_mcp_tool_docstrings.py b/tests/unit/test_mcp_tool_docstrings.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96b293b15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/test_mcp_tool_docstrings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+"""
+Test that MCP tools have proper docstrings for LLM tool descriptions.
+
+This test uses AST parsing to avoid importing the server module which has
+many dependencies that may not be available in a test environment.
+"""
+
+import ast
+import os
+from typing import Optional
+
+
+def get_function_docstring(filepath: str, function_name: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Parse a Python file and extract the docstring of a specific function."""
+    with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
+        tree = ast.parse(f.read())
+
+    for node in ast.walk(tree):
+        if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)):
+            if node.name == function_name:
+                return ast.get_docstring(node)
+    return None
+
+
+def test_get_markdown_has_docstring():
+    """Test that the get_markdown endpoint has a docstring for MCP tool description."""
+    server_path = os.path.join(
+        os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', 'deploy', 'docker', 'server.py'
+    )
+    docstring = get_function_docstring(server_path, 'get_markdown')
+
+    assert docstring is not None, "get_markdown should have a docstring"
+    assert len(docstring) > 0, "get_markdown docstring should not be empty"
+    assert "Markdown" in docstring or "markdown" in docstring, \
+        "get_markdown docstring should mention markdown"
+
+
+def test_generate_html_has_docstring():
+    """Test that the generate_html endpoint has a docstring for MCP tool description."""
+    server_path = os.path.join(
+        os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', 'deploy', 'docker', 'server.py'
+    )
+    docstring = get_function_docstring(server_path, 'generate_html')
+
+    assert docstring is not None, "generate_html should have a docstring"
+    assert len(docstring) > 0, "generate_html docstring should not be empty"
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_get_markdown_has_docstring()
+    test_generate_html_has_docstring()
+    print("All docstring tests passed!")