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Anthropic's Claude Code drops text instructions in tool results, prioritizing JSON

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A technical post details how Anthropic's Claude Code, an AI coding agent, drops text blocks when processing tool results, prioritizing JSON structuredContent instead. This behavior was observed in an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server designed to interact with AI apps like Claude Code. The server's text content, which included crucial instructions and framing, was ignored by Claude Code, which exclusively processed the JSON data. While this did not affect the passing of existing evaluations, it highlights a potential issue in how AI agents handle mixed content types from tools. AI

IMPACT Highlights a potential issue in how AI agents process structured tool outputs, impacting developers building AI applications.

RANK_REASON Technical post detailing specific observed behavior of an AI agent's tool interaction.

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Anthropic's Claude Code drops text instructions in tool results, prioritizing JSON

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeremy Longshore ·

    MCP structuredContent: Claude Code Drops Your Text Blocks

    <p>If you build an MCP server, the instructions you write into the text of a tool result may never reach the model.<br /> MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets an AI app such as Claude Code call tools on a server you run. A tool result can carry plain text and a JSON object called <c…

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