[Hyacinth-of-Security (lxcxjxhx)]

Motivation and Context

Ten docstrings across nine files in python/semantic_kernel list an argument that the function below them does not accept. Nothing here changes behaviour: signatures, defaults and bodies are untouched, only the prose.

This matters because these are the docstrings that end up in the generated API reference and in editor tooltips. Kernel.as_mcp_server telling the reader to pass kernel= is the clearest example — Kernel is the instance, so anyone following the docs writes a call that silently goes into **kwargs.

Description

File	Docstring listed	Signature accepts
kernel.py — Kernel.as_mcp_server	kernel	self (no kernel; **kwargs would swallow it silently)
core_plugins/text_memory_plugin.py — TextMemoryPlugin.save	kernel	text, key, collection
agents/orchestration/group_chat.py — GroupChatManager.filter_results	participant_descriptions	chat_history (the sibling select_next_agent does take it — that docstring is correct and untouched)
agents/bedrock/bedrock_agent.py — create_and_prepare_agent	prompt_template_config	name, instructions, and the keyword-only arguments listed there
agents/bedrock/bedrock_agent.py — create_channel	chat_history	thread_id only
connectors/memory_stores/azure_cognitive_search/..._memory_store.py — create_collection	semantic_config	collection_name, vector_config, search_resource_encryption_key
connectors/ai/open_ai/exceptions/content_filter_ai_exception.py — from_inner_error_result	key	inner_error_results
contents/chat_message_content.py — to_element	root_key	no parameters
contents/streaming_chat_message_content.py — to_element	root_key	no parameters
memory/semantic_text_memory_base.py — SemanticTextMemoryBase.search	with_embeddings	collection, query, limit, min_relevance_score

9 files changed, 14 deletions(-) — every line removed is a docstring line.

Verification

• ruff check on the nine touched files: one finding, D421 at contents/chat_message_content.py:201, which is a pre-existing property docstring this PR does not touch (my change in that file is at line 235).
• ruff format --check on the same files: already formatted.
• Docstrings only: nothing imports or reads them at runtime, so there is no build, typing or API-compatibility surface to re-verify. I did not run the unit-test suite; saying so rather than ticking the box.

What I left alone

• ChromaMemoryStore.__init__ still documents similarity_fetch_limit — the class is marked @deprecated and points at ChromaStore, so it is not worth a docstring commit.
• OpenAIResponsesAgent.get_response / invoke / invoke_stream document additional_instructions, additional_messages, max_prompt_tokens; BedrockAgent.create_and_prepare_agent neighbours and AutoGenConversableAgent.invoke have the same shape. All of these forward **kwargs, so whether the names are dead or merely undocumented keyword passthroughs is a maintainer call rather than something a static check can settle.
• data/text_search.py create_search_function documents string_mapper, which exists on an @overload of the same name — correct, not drift.

AI assistance: the list was produced by a static check over Google-style Args: blocks, then each row was read against its signature and, where relevant, against the sibling overloads before being kept. The description was written from those diffs.

Contribution Checklist

• The code builds clean without any errors or warnings — docstrings only; ruff reports nothing new on the touched files.
• The PR follows the SK Contribution Guidelines — ruff check / ruff format --check run as the pre-submission formatting step describes.
• All unit tests pass, and I have added new tests where possible — no tests added: there is nothing to assert for a docstring edit, and I did not run the suite.
• I didn't break anyone

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What changed in this PR

Aligns ten Python SDK docstrings with their function signatures, removing unsupported arguments from generated API documentation and editor tooltips.

Changes:

• Removes stale argument descriptions across nine files.
• Removes empty Args: sections from both chat-message to_element docstrings.
• Leaves function signatures, defaults, and implementation code unchanged.

File	Description
python/​semantic_kernel/​memory/​semantic_text_memory_base.py	Removes with_embeddings from search documentation.
python/​semantic_kernel/​kernel.py	Removes kernel from as_mcp_server documentation.
python/​semantic_kernel/​core_plugins/​text_memory_plugin.py	Removes kernel from save documentation.
python/​semantic_kernel/​contents/​streaming_chat_message_content.py	Removes the obsolete root_key argument section.
python/​semantic_kernel/​contents/​chat_message_content.py	Removes the obsolete root_key argument section.
python/​semantic_kernel/​connectors/​memory_stores/​azure_cognitive_search/​azure_cognitive_search_memory_store.py	Removes semantic_config from create_collection documentation.
python/​semantic_kernel/​connectors/​ai/​open_ai/​exceptions/​content_filter_ai_exception.py	Removes key from from_inner_error_result documentation.
python/​semantic_kernel/​agents/​orchestration/​group_chat.py	Removes participant_descriptions from filter_results documentation.
python/​semantic_kernel/​agents/​bedrock/​bedrock_agent.py	Removes stale prompt_template_config and chat_history argument descriptions.

_{Review effort: Balanced}