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Tool inputs with untyped schemas are parsed instead of arriving as text

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MCP

MCP and plugin tools with loose input schemas now get real data instead of stringified JSON.

What

MCP and plugin tools whose input schema omits type on a property were receiving stringified JSON where the model intended structured data. Such properties are now treated as accepting any type, and a string that decodes to a boolean, number, array or object is parsed.

Details
  • The new case applies when a property's schema carries only annotation keywords: $comment, default, deprecated, description, examples, readOnly, title, writeOnly.
  • Properties that do declare array, object, boolean, number or integer were already re-parsed and are unchanged.
Evidence

Error normalizing tool input

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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