fastmcp/tests/tools/tool
Francis Secada 032b9f6382
fix: don't infer an output schema for unconstrained sequences (#4999)
* fix: don't infer an output schema for unconstrained sequences

`Any` is already excluded from output-schema inference because the schema
it produces constrains nothing. A bare `list` or `tuple` is the
sequence-shaped equivalent: it yields `{"result": {"items": {}, "type":
"array"}}`, which permits every value that no schema at all permits.

Inferring it is not free. An output schema forces structured content, and
`replace_type` cannot suppress the MCP content types inside a sequence
that has no item type to match -- which is why `list[ContentBlock]`
already infers nothing but bare `list` does not. So a tool annotated
`-> list` returning `[ImageContent(...), {...}]`, the shape used to pair
a picture with its metadata, puts the base64 image on the wire twice:
once as an image content block, and once again serialised into
`structuredContent`.

Clients break on that in both directions. Some render the JSON blob
instead of the picture; others inject the duplicated base64 into model
context and blow their tool-output token cap. Server authors currently
work around it per-tool with `output_schema=None`, which also discards
the schema for tools that wanted one.

`list`, `tuple`, `list[Any]` and `tuple[Any, ...]` now infer no schema,
matching `Any`. Annotations that say something about their items --
`list[int]`, `tuple[int, str]`, `dict`, `str` -- are untouched.

Two parametrized sweeps asserted the old bare-`list` schema as one case
among many annotations; `list` is dropped from both, and the new
behaviour gets its own tests including a regression test that a returned
image is not duplicated into `structuredContent`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* tools: catch typing.List, Sequence, and Annotated in the unconstrained-sequence guard

fixed-length tuple[Any, ...] variants keep their schema since they still
pin a length. documents the exception in the tools docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0186WjrVNudDm5qaDPw5mntN

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: zzstoatzz <thrast36@gmail.com>
2026-09-04 13:02:02 -05:00
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__init__.py Consolidate test fixtures and refactor large test files (#2941) 2026-01-19 15:18:35 -05:00
test_argument_validation.py Move task subsystem to fastmcp-tasks package, disconnect SEP-1686 wire from core 2026-07-21 21:51:45 -04:00
test_callable.py Migrate to MCP Python SDK v2 (#4437) 2026-07-06 17:36:45 -04:00
test_content.py Migrate to MCP Python SDK v2 (#4437) 2026-07-06 17:36:45 -04:00
test_output_schema.py fix: don't infer an output schema for unconstrained sequences (#4999) 2026-09-04 13:02:02 -05:00
test_results.py Delegate typed tool output serialization to Pydantic (#4771) 2026-08-06 19:59:19 -04:00
test_title.py Always emit a tool title, derived from name when unset (#4694) 2026-07-28 17:30:20 -04:00
test_tool.py Reject positional-only tool parameters (#4524) 2026-07-17 17:37:28 -04:00