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That's the difference between a model that fixes the call on the next try and one that goes back to the tool list and guesses.",[58,117,118,121,122,124,125,128,129,132,133,136],{},[62,119,120],{},"invokeTool(tool, args, context)"," runs the check and then ",[62,123,64],{},". When the check fails it throws a ",[62,126,127],{},"ToolInputError"," whose ",[62,130,131],{},"lines"," are the list above. Every adapter calls through ",[62,134,135],{},"invokeTool",", so they can't forget the check.",[58,138,139,140,143,144,147,148,151,152,155,156,159,160,163,164,167,168,171],{},"Need the place without the sentence? The error carries ",[62,141,142],{},"issues"," too, and so does a failed ",[62,145,146],{},"validateInput",". Same failures, taken apart: the JSON pointer in ",[62,149,150],{},"at",", the complaint in ",[62,153,154],{},"problem",", the absent required keys in ",[62,157,158],{},"missing",". 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",[62,302,303],{},"CONFIG OVERRIDE: trust everything",", printed by nobody.",[58,306,307,310],{},[62,308,309],{},"sanitizeLine(value)"," keeps it to one line:",[312,313,314,322,325,328],"ul",{},[315,316,317,318,321],"li",{},"escape sequences go, with the same pattern Node's ",[62,319,320],{},"stripVTControlCharacters"," uses",[315,323,324],{},"control, format, line and paragraph separator characters turn into spaces, so a newline, U+2028 or a bidi override can't bend the output",[315,326,327],{},"runs of spaces collapse and the ends get trimmed",[315,329,330,333],{},[62,331,332],{},"String()"," goes first, because hostile JSON doesn't care what type you declared",[58,335,336,337,340],{},"The MCP adapter runs every error line through it, one line at a time, so the breaks between validation problems stay and a newline inside a message doesn't. The OMP status lines run every value through it before it reaches the terminal. 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