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Fixes #2065

Problem

buildMcpToolName cut mcp--<server>--<tool> at 64 characters. A model that completes the cut name calls the full name; parseMcpToolName resolves it, the call succeeds, and NativeToolCallParser.parseDynamicMcpTool keeps the over-long name, which Task.ts writes to history. Bedrock Converse and Azure OpenAI (also via LiteLLM) reject any history tool_use.name over 64 characters, so every later request fails. (A model that instead calls the declared cut name also failed, because the cut tool name matched no tool.)

Change

  • buildMcpToolName shortens over-long names with a hash suffix (first 55 chars + _ + 8-hex SHA-256 of the full name = 64), so distinct tools stay distinct and the declared name no longer looks like a half-cut word.
  • resolveMcpToolByName maps a called name (declared/hashed, uncut, or underscore-mangled) back to the original server and tool. presentAssistantMessage uses it when the parsed names match no tool, so both the hashed and uncut names execute.
  • parseDynamicMcpTool records an over-long name under the declared name, so it can never reach history.
  • capMcpToolUseNames renames over-long MCP tool_use names already in history when a request is built, which unsticks existing tasks without condensing (stored history is not mutated).

Notes

  • Declared names for tools that were previously cut change (hash suffix); names ≤ 64 characters are unchanged.
  • presentAssistantMessage now calls mcpHub.getAllServers() on the lookup path, so test doubles for the hub gained that method.

Tests

mcp-name-long.spec.ts (limit, hash, determinism, distinctness, resolution of declared/uncut/mangled names), NativeToolCallParser-mcp-long-name.spec.ts, capMcpToolUseNames.spec.ts, and a presentAssistantMessage test that a hashed name executes against the right server and tool. src suite (11,045 tests) and check-types pass.

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  • New Features
    • Added support for MCP tools with names longer than provider limits. Long names are shortened consistently while preserving the ability to identify the original server and tool.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved execution of MCP tools when model responses use shortened or normalized tool names.
    • Ensured conversation history uses provider-compatible MCP tool names without changing stored messages.

MCP tool names longer than 64 characters now receive hash-suffixed names. API history caps overlong MCP tool-use names, and native MCP calls can resolve shortened names to their declared server and tool names.

Changes: MCP tool name handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded names and lookup
src/utils/mcp-name.ts, src/utils/__tests__/mcp-name-long.spec.ts
Names up to 64 characters remain unchanged. Longer names use an eight-character SHA-256 hash suffix. Name lookup matches shortened and uncut names with hyphen/underscore normalization.
Tool-call and API-history names
src/core/assistant-message/NativeToolCallParser.ts, src/core/assistant-message/__tests__/NativeToolCallParser-mcp-long-name.spec.ts, src/core/task/capMcpToolUseNames.ts, src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/capMcpToolUseNames.spec.ts
Native tool-call parsing reconstructs overlong names. API conversation history caps parseable MCP tool-use names before image blocks are removed. Tests cover name limits, unchanged inputs, and input immutability.
Native MCP call resolution
src/core/assistant-message/presentAssistantMessage.ts, src/core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-tool-usage-attribution.spec.ts, src/core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-auto-deny.spec.ts, src/core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-custom-tool.spec.ts
Complete native calls match declared server tools or resolve the original call name. The shared MCP handler receives the resolved names. Tests cover shortened-name resolution and update MCP hub mocks with getAllServers.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Model
  participant NativeToolCallParser
  participant presentAssistantMessage
  participant sharedMcpHandler
  Model->>NativeToolCallParser: Return native MCP tool call
  NativeToolCallParser->>presentAssistantMessage: Provide parsed server and tool names
  presentAssistantMessage->>presentAssistantMessage: Match declared tool or resolve original call name
  presentAssistantMessage->>sharedMcpHandler: Pass resolved server and tool names
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Some overlong MCP calls can still produce an undeclared name in API history and fail to resolve. Fix name normalization before merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Error Issue #2065 requires the history name to equal the name declared to the model and remain within 64 characters. The standard uncut path satisfies this. The over-long underscore-mangled path does not. `… Use one canonical hash input for canonical and underscore-mangled spellings, such as hashing normalizeForComparison(fullName), or preserve the original server and tool names before rebuilding the declared name. Add a regression test for a…
Regression Evidence Warning The changed Task request path lacks focused coverage at the lowest valid layer. Task.ts:5835 now applies capMcpToolUseNames before maybeRemoveImageBlocks and buildCleanConversationHistory, but… Add a focused Task.spec.ts request-construction test. Put an over-long parseable MCP tool_use in apiConversationHistory, call attemptApiRequest, and assert that api.createMessage receives the 64-character declared/hash name. Also …
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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main fix: preventing over-long MCP tool names from reaching API history and breaking tasks.
Description check Passed The description links issue #2065, explains the problem and implementation, records important behavior changes, and lists validation results. It does not include the template checklist or detailed rep…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed source code and tests address MCP name construction, parsing, resolution, execution, and API history shaping for issue #2065. The MCP hub mock updates support the new lookup path. No unrel…
Security Boundaries Passed No changed path violates the security boundary. presentAssistantMessage.ts:333-349 resolves names only against tools returned by getAllServers; execution then passes through validateToolUse, `Us…
Persistence Integrity Passed No changed persistence-integrity failure is present. parseDynamicMcpTool changes the name before the existing awaited addToApiConversationHistory and saveApiConversationHistory path. `capMcpTool…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup Passed No changed lifecycle path can leak a resource or duplicate lifecycle work. The new getAllServers() call is a synchronous array read, and capMcpToolUseNames, buildMcpToolName, and `resolveMcpTool…
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The description links issue #2065, explains the problem and implementation, records important behavior changes, and lists validation results. It does not include the template checklist or detailed repeatable test steps, but it is mostly complete and directly related to the pull request.

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The changed source code and tests address MCP name construction, parsing, resolution, execution, and API history shaping for issue #2065. The MCP hub mock updates support the new lookup path. No unrelated product behavior or unrelated refactor is established by the reviewed changes.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

No changed path violates the security boundary. presentAssistantMessage.ts:333-349 resolves names only against tools returned by getAllServers; execution then passes through validateToolUse, UseMcpToolTool.validateToolExists, ensureMcpServerAllowed, and askApproval before callTool (UseMcpToolTool.ts:54-105, 356). capMcpToolUseNames only shapes API history and does not execute input. The changes do not expose secrets or PII.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

No changed persistence-integrity failure is present. parseDynamicMcpTool changes the name before the existing awaited addToApiConversationHistory and saveApiConversationHistory path. capMcpToolUseNames is a synchronous, non-mutating API-request transformation applied to mergedForApi; it does not write or alter stored history. The pull request adds no non-awaited operation, non-atomic write, missing rollback, or unpropagated persisted default.

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No changed lifecycle path can leak a resource or duplicate lifecycle work. The new getAllServers() call is a synchronous array read, and capMcpToolUseNames, buildMcpToolName, and resolveMcpToolByName are pure transformations/lookups. The diff adds no listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, subscription, disposal, or cancellation handling.

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Explanation

Issue #2065 requires the history name to equal the name declared to the model and remain within 64 characters. The standard uncut path satisfies this. The over-long underscore-mangled path does not. parseDynamicMcpTool parses mcp__... into underscore-normalized server and tool names, then hashes those names with buildMcpToolName. The hash differs from the declared canonical hash when the original names contain hyphens. resolveMcpToolByName compares the hash literally, so it cannot resolve that recorded name on a later call. The current tests cover an underscore-mangled declared hash, not an underscore-mangled over-long uncut name.

Resolution

Use one canonical hash input for canonical and underscore-mangled spellings, such as hashing normalizeForComparison(fullName), or preserve the original server and tool names before rebuilding the declared name. Add a regression test for an over-long uncut name with hyphens converted to underscores. Verify both history naming and later tool resolution.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The changed Task request path lacks focused coverage at the lowest valid layer. Task.ts:5835 now applies capMcpToolUseNames before maybeRemoveImageBlocks and buildCleanConversationHistory, but the pull request changes no Task.spec.ts. The added capMcpToolUseNames.spec.ts covers only the helper. Existing Task.spec.ts request coverage checks field cleanup with a user message and does not verify an over-long MCP tool_use, the capped history passed to api.createMessage, or preservation of stored apiConversationHistory.

Resolution

Add a focused Task.spec.ts request-construction test. Put an over-long parseable MCP tool_use in apiConversationHistory, call attemptApiRequest, and assert that api.createMessage receives the 64-character declared/hash name. Also assert that task.apiConversationHistory still contains the original over-long name. This verifies the changed Task wiring and the non-mutating recovery behavior.

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Do not cap MCP names for summarization.

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it("keeps names within the limit unchanged", () => {
expect(buildMcpToolName("weather", "get_forecast")).toBe("mcp--weather--get_forecast")
})

it("shortens an over-long name to exactly 64 characters with a hash suffix", () => {
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expect(UNCUT.length).toBeGreaterThan(64)
expect(name).toHaveLength(64)
expect(name.slice(0, 55)).toBe(UNCUT.slice(0, 55))
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for a name of exactly 64 characters.

The mutation check reports a surviving mutant at src/utils/mcp-name.ts Line 149 (<= → <). No current test builds a full name of exactly 64 characters. Such a name must stay unchanged and must not get a hash suffix. One test with a full name of exactly 64 characters kills this mutant.

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const hash = createHash("sha256").update(fullName).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
return `${fullName.slice(0, MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH - 1)}_${hash}`

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the -- separators intact in the shortened name.

The shortened name is the first 55 characters of the full name. "mcp--" uses 5 characters. If the sanitized server name has 48 or more characters, the cut drops the second -- separator. The shortened name then has the form mcp--<server prefix>_<hash>, or mcp--<server>-_<hash> when the cut splits the separator.

This is what happens when the model calls the declared name:

  • NativeToolCallParser.parseToolCall sees the mcp-- prefix and routes the call to parseDynamicMcpTool.
  • parseMcpToolName returns null because the name has no second separator.
  • parseDynamicMcpTool logs "Invalid dynamic MCP tool name format" and returns null, so the tool call is dropped.

resolveMcpToolByName in presentAssistantMessage.ts never runs, because no mcp_tool_use block exists. Every tool on such a server stays unusable. The old plain truncation had the same problem, but this PR adds a resolver that claims to cover shortened names, and this path never reaches it.

Fix: shorten the server and tool parts separately so the separator always survives, or let parseDynamicMcpTool fall back to name resolution.

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--- "a/src/utils/mcp-name.ts"
+++ "b/src/utils/mcp-name.ts"
@@ -150,8 +150,16 @@
 		return fullName
 	}
 
 	const hash = createHash("sha256").update(fullName).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
-	return `${fullName.slice(0, MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH - 1)}_${hash}`
+	const budget = MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH - 1
+	const head = `${MCP_TOOL_PREFIX}${MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR}`
+	const server = sanitizeMcpName(serverName)
+	// Keep at least one tool character after the second separator.
+	const maxServer = budget - head.length - MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR.length - 1
+	const cutServer = server.length > maxServer ? server.slice(0, maxServer).replace(/-+$/, "") : server
+	const prefix = `${head}${cutServer}${MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR}`
+	const cutTool = sanitizeMcpName(toolName).slice(0, budget - prefix.length)
+	return `${prefix}${cutTool}_${hash}`
 }
 
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Add a test with a server name of 48 or more characters. The test must check that parseMcpToolName(buildMcpToolName(server, tool)) is not null.

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return `${fullName.slice(0, MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH - 1)}_${hash}`
const hash = createHash("sha256").update(fullName).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
const budget = MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH - 1
const head = `${MCP_TOOL_PREFIX}${MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR}`
const server = sanitizeMcpName(serverName)
// Keep at least one tool character after the second separator.
const maxServer = budget - head.length - MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR.length - 1
const cutServer = server.length > maxServer ? server.slice(0, maxServer).replace(/-+$/, "") : server
const prefix = `${head}${cutServer}${MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR}`
const cutTool = sanitizeMcpName(toolName).slice(0, budget - prefix.length)
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Update buildMcpToolName so shortened names retain both MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR
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Thanks for picking this up! I checked it against the case from #2065 by running mcp-name.ts from this branch: a history entry with the uncut name is rewritten to exactly the declared name, so an already stuck task recovers without condensing. Policy checks also run after the name is resolved, so a disabled tool or server is still refused.

Two things I'd fix before merge:

  1. CodeRabbit's separator finding is real, but it starts at 49 characters of sanitized server name, not 48 (at 48 the tool part is empty and the name still parses). From 49 on, the declared name loses its second --, parseMcpToolName returns null, and parseDynamicMcpTool drops the call before resolveMcpToolByName can run, so no tool on that server works. Cutting the server and tool parts separately, as CodeRabbit suggests, fits the rest of the PR since resolveMcpToolByName and capMcpToolUseNames both go through buildMcpToolName.

  2. When the model calls the uncut name with hyphens turned into underscores, parseDynamicMcpTool records a name whose hash differs from the declared one, e.g. declared mcp--example-gateway-tools--confluence-confluence_get_s_fb524807 vs recorded mcp--example_gateway_tools--confluence_confluence_get_s_04b5892a. It is under 64 characters so providers accept it, but history then holds a name that was never declared, and resolveMcpToolByName can't map it back if the model reuses it. Hashing normalizeForComparison(fullName) instead of fullName gives both spellings the same suffix, so they toolNamesMatch and resolve. Two tools that differ only by -/_ would share a hash, but they already resolve to the same tool everywhere else.

The exactly-64 test CodeRabbit asks for is worth adding too.

PierrunoYT and others added 2 commits October 25, 2026 10:46
buildMcpToolName cut names at 64 characters, so models called the full name
instead; Zoo Code resolved it but wrote the over-long name to history, which
Bedrock and Azure OpenAI reject on every later request. Shorten with a hash
suffix, resolve called names against the declared names, write history under
the declared name, and rename over-long names already in history when
building a request.

Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#2065

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Hash normalized names so underscore-mangled calls remain resolvable.

If the model returns an overlong uncut MCP name with hyphens changed to underscores, NativeToolCallParser.parseDynamicMcpTool rebuilds it with a hash of that changed spelling. The hash differs from the declared name’s hash. resolveMcpToolByName cannot match the rebuilt name, and API history records a name that was never declared. Hash normalizeForComparison(fullName) and add a parser-to-resolver regression case for the uncut underscore-mangled name. The PR discussion identifies this same failing input. (github.com)

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--- "a/src/utils/mcp-name.ts"
+++ "b/src/utils/mcp-name.ts"
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 		return fullName
 	}
 
-	const hash = createHash("sha256").update(fullName).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
+	const hash = createHash("sha256").update(normalizeForComparison(fullName)).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
 	const budget = MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH - 1
 	const prefix = `${MCP_TOOL_PREFIX}${MCP_TOOL_SEPARATOR}`
 	// Cap the server part so the second separator and at least one tool character survive;
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const hash = createHash("sha256").update(fullName).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
const hash = createHash("sha256").update(normalizeForComparison(fullName)).digest("hex").slice(0, HASH_SUFFIX_LENGTH)
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Update the hash generation in the function containing this `createHash` call to
hash `normalizeForComparison(fullName)` instead of the raw `fullName`, so
underscore-mangled names resolve to the declared name’s hash. Add a
parser-to-resolver regression case for an uncut, underscore-mangled MCP name.

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[BUG] MCP tool names cut at 64 chars come back full-length in API history and break the task on Bedrock / OpenAI-compatible providers

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