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LangGraph bot hallucinates non-existent tool calls

A developer encountered an issue where an AI bot built with LangGraph and MCP hallucinated non-existent tool calls, leading to incorrect responses and system crashes. The problem stemmed from the configuration of conditional edges in the StateGraph, which allowed the model to invent functions. The developer resolved this by implementing a validation mechanism within the conditional edges to ensure only existing tools were called, though this can introduce performance overhead. AI

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LangGraph bot hallucinates non-existent tool calls

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Kasi Yaswanth ·

    Day 11/30: Handling Hallucinated Tool Calls

    <p>I was debugging a support bot built with LangGraph and MCP the other day, and I stumbled upon a weird issue. The bot was supposed to help users with simple IT tasks, like resetting passwords or checking email accounts. However, when I tested it with a specific prompt, the bot …