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feat(sdk): tool aliases, and refusals that carry a remedy - #1000
Proposal item 2.3 (a): tool aliases, and refusals that carry their remedy.
The reported problems:
A renamed tool loses its callers. A server that renamed review.list to review_list (some clients refuse dots in
tool names) had to rewrite the old name in a Will('findTool') hook to keep old clients working. Worse, review.list already means something to FrontMCP: a dotted name that finds nothing is read as owner.name, the full
name review:list, so the old name could silently reach another app's tool.
A refusal says what went wrong but never how to get past it. PublicMcpError carried a message, a code and a
status; a client (or the model) had to parse prose to learn that a feature flag or a setup step stood in the way.
What this PR changes:
@Tool({ aliases: string[] }). Each alias is another name tools/call and this.callTool() accept (the
2026-07-28 header validation finds the tool's schema by it too).
A call by an alias is logged once per tool and alias, at info level: findTool: tool "review.list" is an alias of "review_list"; call "review_list" instead.
An alias of a tool that availableWhen excludes answers EntryUnavailableError, as the tool's name does.
Validation: each alias is a non-empty string of at most 64 characters (the tools/call name limit), checked by
the tool metadata schema where the tool is declared. An alias that is also a tool's name (or full name), or
another tool's alias, anywhere in the server (across apps, including tools registered at runtime) fails startup
with the new ToolAliasConflictError (TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT), which lists every conflict: alias "review.list" is declared by both "review:review_list" and "archive:archived_reviews". A tool registered
at runtime under such a name (server.registerTool(), ESM proxies, channel tools) is refused with the same
error before it is added. A remote app's tool named like an alias is left out, with the conflict in a warning, and
the rest of that app's tools, resources and prompts load as before.
The deployment answers a startup TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT as a misconfiguration: a Worker or edge handler answers 500 {"error":"server_misconfigured","code":"TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT"} with a fixed remedy, never the aliases.
CodeCall (codecall:execute, codecall:invoke, codecall:describe) resolves a name as tools/call does, alias
first, so its policy judges the tool the call runs.
remedy?: { say: string; tool?: string; args?: Record<string, unknown> } on PublicMcpError (new exported type ErrorRemedy), passed as the fifth constructor argument after wwwAuthenticate:
sent as JSON-RPC data.remedy (resources/read, prompts/get, and every other request answered with a JSON-RPC
error), next to the data the error already declares;
in a tools/call error result, appended to the text as a last line, To fix: Turn on Reviews in Settings (call settings_set with {"feature":"reviews"}), and kept structured in _meta.remedy.
refused(message, { code?, status?, remedy? }), a public refusal for this.fail(...), 'REFUSED' and 403
unless given others (new exported type RefusalOptions): this.fail(refused('Reviews are off', { code: 'FEATURE_OFF', remedy: { say: 'Turn on Reviews in Settings', tool: 'settings_set' } })).
Remedies on the existing refusals:
EntryUnavailableError names the environment its availableWhen asks for: Run the server where env is production to use this tool. It has none when a missing axis allows no value (an
empty list), since no environment offers the entry.
The feature-flag plugin's FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLED refusal names the flag: Turn on the feature flag "beta-tools" to use this tool.
Different from the plan, and why:
_meta.remedy on the tools/call error result, besides the text line: a tool call is answered with an isError
result, not a JSON-RPC error, so data.remedy never reaches it, and the remedy's tool and args are meant to be
read by a client, not parsed out of text.
The remedy is a fifth positional constructor argument, so the existing (message, code, status, wwwAuthenticate)
signature stays as it is.
The runtime collision check sits in ToolRegistry.registerToolInstance(), so every runtime path is covered, not
only registerTool(). It checks the registry's own tools and the scope's, before the tool is added. A remote app
catches it per tool: failing the whole discovery left the tools before the conflict registered and dropped the
app's resources and prompts, on every retry, so a remote server could take its own app down by adding one tool.
New @Tool option aliases (also on the function-style tool({...})).
New remedy on PublicMcpError (fifth constructor argument), new refused() helper, new exported types ErrorRemedy and RefusalOptions.
New startup and registration error ToolAliasConflictError (TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT), also a server_misconfigured code.
EntryUnavailableError and the feature-flag plugin's FeatureFlagDisabledError carry a remedy.
Before → after:
A renamed tool needed a hook to answer to its old name, and a dotted old name was read as owner.name → it
declares aliases, which are callable, never listed, and win over the owner.name reading.
A JSON-RPC error's data was { errorId, code } (or what toJsonRpcError() declares) → it also has remedy
when the error carries one.
A tools/call error result for ENTRY_UNAVAILABLE or FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLED was the message alone → the message
plus a To fix: … line, and _meta.remedy. Clients that compare the whole text see the extra line.
frontmcp.dev pages affected (if known): the @Tool options reference (https://frontmcp.dev/reference/sdk/tool),
the tool error-handling page, the availableWhen / availability page, and the feature-flags plugin page.
Skills catalog entries updated:
create-tool/SKILL.md (triggers and the reference index);
create-tool/references/decorator-options.md (aliases row, and its interaction with owner.name, remote apps
and CodeCall);
create-tool/references/error-handling.md (new "Refusals that carry a remedy" section; the EntryUnavailableError row now shows its real code, 'ENTRY_UNAVAILABLE');
create-tool/references/availability.md (the error example now shows the real data shape, with remedy);
frontmcp-development/references/decorators-guide.md (aliases in the @Tool table);
frontmcp-development/references/official-plugins.md (the feature-flag refusal's remedy);
frontmcp-deployment/references/deploy-to-cloudflare.md (TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT among the server_misconfigured codes);
skills-manifest.json (the error-handling reference description).
Tests
Unit:
libs/sdk/src/tool/__tests__/call-tool-names.spec.ts: a tool called by each alias over tools/call; review.list
reaches the aliased tool while review:list reaches the app's list tool; an alias through this.callTool();
aliases absent from tools/list; one info line per alias, naming the tool; an alias of an unavailable tool answers ENTRY_UNAVAILABLE with the remedy line and _meta.remedy; startup fails with ToolAliasConflictError when an
alias is another app's tool name, when two apps' tools declare one alias, and when a tool lists its own name; a
runtime tool named like an alias is refused and not listed; an empty alias is rejected where the tool is declared.
libs/sdk/src/errors/__tests__/mcp.error.spec.ts: refused() defaults and overrides; the To fix: line in its
three forms and _meta.remedy; no change without a remedy; the EntryUnavailableError remedy, and none when no
environment can offer the entry.
libs/sdk/src/transport/mcp-handlers/__tests__/mcp-error.utils.spec.ts: data.remedy for a public error, merged
into the data an error declares (EntryUnavailableError), and absent without a remedy.
plugins/plugin-feature-flags: FeatureFlagDisabledError carries the remedy; through the real flows, the tools/call refusal has the line and _meta.remedy, the resources/read refusal has data.remedy, and a disabled
tool called by its alias is refused like its name (the plugin sits on the app, so this also checks that the hooks
of the alias's tool are the ones that run).
plugins/plugin-codecall/src/__tests__/codecall-access-control.flow.spec.ts: through the real flows, an alias
spelled like another tool's hyphen/underscore name (get-report, next to get_report) is judged as the tool it
reaches, so codecall:execute and codecall:invoke refuse it when that tool is enabledInCodeCall: false; it ran
before, past the policy. An allowed tool runs by its alias.
libs/sdk/src/app/__tests__/app.remote.instance.spec.ts: a remote tool named like a local alias is left out, the
remote's other tools and prompts still load, across a re-discovery, and the alias reaches the local tool.
libs/sdk/src/errors/__tests__/misconfiguration.spec.ts and libs/sdk/src/front-mcp/__tests__/fetch-handler.startup-checks.spec.ts: TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT is a
misconfiguration code, and an edge fetch handler answers 500 server_misconfigured for it (it answered 503 before)
without echoing the aliases.
E2E:
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-multiapp/e2e/tool-aliases.e2e.spec.ts (new review app): the old dotted name review.list
calls review_list; the alias is not in tools/list; review.list reaches the alias while review:list reaches
the app's list tool; and src/alias-collision.main.ts, a separate server with a second tool claiming the alias,
fails startup naming both tools.
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-feature-flags: resources/read and prompts/get refusals carry data.remedy naming the flag;
the tools/call refusal has the To fix: line and _meta.remedy.
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/tool-aliases-must-compile.ts: aliases, refused(), ErrorRemedy and
the PublicMcpError remedy argument type-check from the published declarations; a remedy without say and a
string aliases are rejected.
Ran locally:
nx run-many -t lint,build -p sdk plugin-codecall plugin-feature-flags skills (lint: no errors; no warnings in the
new code)
nx test demo-e2e-multiapp (30 passed), demo-e2e-feature-flags (33), demo-e2e-dts-consumer (15), demo-e2e-env-awareness (30; its unavailable-entry answers now carry the remedy line), demo-e2e-codecall (37) and demo-e2e-remote (31)
node scripts/fix-unused-imports.mjs, prettier --check on the changed files, and tsc --noEmit on the multiapp
fixture
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Tools can be called using alternate aliases, including through CodeCall. Aliases take precedence over dotted-name interpretation and aren’t included in tool listings.
Refusal and unavailable-entry errors can include actionable remedies in responses and error metadata. Disabled-feature errors identify the flag to enable.
Bug Fixes
Conflicting aliases are rejected during registration. Conflicts with discovered remote tools are skipped instead of interrupting capability registration.
Documentation
Updated guidance for tool aliases, refusal remedies, and feature-flag error responses.
- @tool({ aliases }): callable, never listed, matched before a dotted name is
read as owner.name, logged once at info level; an alias that is a tool name
or another tool's alias fails startup or a runtime registration with
ToolAliasConflictError
- remedy { say, tool?, args? } on PublicMcpError, sent as JSON-RPC data.remedy
and as a To fix: line plus _meta.remedy in a tools/call error result; add
refused(message, { code, status, remedy })
- EntryUnavailableError names the environment its availableWhen asks for, and
the feature-flag refusal names the flag to turn on
…tools/call does
CodeCall judged the tool its own resolver found (name, then the hyphen/underscore
spelling) but dispatched the requested name, which tools/call now matches against
@tool({ aliases }) first. An alias spelled like another tool's hyphen/underscore name
ran the aliased tool past enabledInCodeCall, includeTools and directCalls.
…L_ALIAS_CONFLICT as a misconfiguration
A remote app whose server listed a tool named like a local alias threw mid-discovery:
the tools before it stayed registered, its resources and prompts never loaded, and every
retry did the same. That tool is now left out with a warning. An edge or Worker handler
answers a startup TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT with server_misconfigured and a fixed remedy.
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Walkthrough
The SDK adds callable tool aliases, alias conflict validation, and remedies on public errors. Tool-call and JSON-RPC responses include remedies when present. Feature-flag errors provide flag-specific guidance. Tests, consumer fixtures, and documentation cover these changes.
Changes: SDK tool behavior
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Alias contract and conflict checks libs/sdk/src/common/metadata/tool.metadata.ts, libs/sdk/src/common/tokens/tool.tokens.ts, libs/sdk/src/common/utils/tool-lookup.utils.ts, libs/sdk/src/tool/tool.registry.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/registry.errors.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/misconfiguration.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/index.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/__tests__/*, libs/sdk/src/front-mcp/__tests__/fetch-handler.startup-checks.spec.ts, libs/sdk/src/tool/__tests__/call-tool-names.spec.ts
Tool metadata accepts aliases and validates their content and length. Lookup checks aliases before names. Registry checks detect alias conflicts and report TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT.
Alias resolution across call paths libs/sdk/src/tool/flows/call-tool.flow.ts, libs/sdk/src/app/instances/app.remote.instance.ts, libs/sdk/src/app/__tests__/app.remote.instance.spec.ts, plugins/plugin-codecall/src/security/codecall-tool-policy.ts, plugins/plugin-codecall/src/__tests__/codecall-access-control.flow.spec.ts, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-multiapp/*
Tool calls and CodeCall policy resolution accept aliases. Calls by alias are logged, and alias calls to unavailable tools use existing unavailable-tool handling. Remote alias conflicts are logged and skipped.
Public error remedies libs/sdk/src/errors/mcp.error.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/index.ts, libs/sdk/src/errors/__tests__/mcp.error.spec.ts, libs/sdk/src/transport/mcp-handlers/mcp-error.utils.ts, libs/sdk/src/transport/mcp-handlers/__tests__/mcp-error.utils.spec.ts
PublicMcpError supports remedies, and refused() creates a refusal with default code REFUSED and status 403. Remedies appear in tool-call response text and JSON-RPC error data when present. EntryUnavailableError derives guidance from availability constraints.
Feature-flag errors provide remedies that name the flag to enable. E2E tests and TypeScript fixtures check aliases and remedy behavior. Skill references describe the alias and remedy APIs and response formats.
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Validate aliases before publishing replacement tools.
654-655: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Validate aliases before publishing replacement tools.
If an adapter replaces its tools after startup, replaceAll() publishes the new rows without calling assertNoAliasConflicts(). A replacement alias can therefore match an existing tool name. Alias-first lookup then sends a call for that name to the replacement tool. The child-registry subscription also publishes such replacements without validation. Check the proposed effective set before either path changes or emits registry state. As per path instructions, “Review for API correctness, breaking changes, and consistency with docs.”
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @libs/sdk/src/tool/tool.registry.ts around lines 654 - 655:
Validate the proposed effective tool set with assertNoAliasConflicts() before
replaceAll() changes registry state or publishes it, and apply the same
validation in the child-registry subscription before it publishes replacements.
Preserve the existing state and emissions when validation fails.
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replaceAll() published an adapter's new tools without the alias check that
startup and runtime registration run, so a replacement tool could take another
tool's name as an alias and receive its calls. It now checks the tools it
keeps and the replacements before changing anything, and throws
ToolAliasConflictError, leaving the adapter's previous tools in place.
Answer to the review-body finding of the review on e57c0d4:
Validate aliases before publishing replacement tools (tool.registry.tsreplaceAll()): reproduced and fixed in 2354300. An adapter update whose tool declared another tool's name as an alias was published unchecked, and a call to that name then ran the adapter's tool (count_orders reached feed_orders). replaceAll() now builds the replacements, checks them together with the tools it keeps and the rest of the scope's tools, and throws ToolAliasConflictError before it changes anything, so the adapter keeps its previous tools (the OpenAPI poller already catches a failing update and logs it). A parent registry only re-reads a child after one of these checked changes, so its subscription needs no check of its own. Test: "refuses an adapter update whose tool takes another tool's name as an alias, and keeps the tools it had" in call-tool-names.spec.ts (failed before, passes now). decorator-options.md documents it.
Local runs on 2354300: nx test sdk 579 suites / 7505 tests, nx test skills 249/249, demo-e2e-multiapp 30/30, demo-e2e-feature-flags 33/33.
Building a ToolInstance registers its class hooks, so a refused update left
the hooks of the tools it would have added, and a later update with the same
tool ran them twice. replaceAll() now reads the names and aliases from the
records and builds the tools only once the update is accepted.
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What and why
Proposal item 2.3 (a): tool aliases, and refusals that carry their remedy.
The reported problems:
review.listtoreview_list(some clients refuse dots intool names) had to rewrite the old name in a
Will('findTool')hook to keep old clients working. Worse,review.listalready means something to FrontMCP: a dotted name that finds nothing is read asowner.name, the fullname
review:list, so the old name could silently reach another app's tool.PublicMcpErrorcarried a message, a code and astatus; a client (or the model) had to parse prose to learn that a feature flag or a setup step stood in the way.
What this PR changes:
@Tool({ aliases: string[] }). Each alias is another nametools/callandthis.callTool()accept (the2026-07-28 header validation finds the tool's schema by it too).
tools/list.owner.name, soaliases: ['review.list']reaches its own tool evenwhen app
reviewhas a tool namedlist(review:liststill reaches that one). It is also matched before thehyphen/underscore fallback (Job-management tools (
execute_job/get_job_status/list_jobs) aren't reachable from user code #408), since it is an exact name.findTool: tool "review.list" is an alias of "review_list"; call "review_list" instead.availableWhenexcludes answersEntryUnavailableError, as the tool's name does.tools/callname limit), checked bythe tool metadata schema where the tool is declared. An alias that is also a tool's name (or full name), or
another tool's alias, anywhere in the server (across apps, including tools registered at runtime) fails startup
with the new
ToolAliasConflictError(TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT), which lists every conflict:alias "review.list" is declared by both "review:review_list" and "archive:archived_reviews". A tool registeredat runtime under such a name (
server.registerTool(), ESM proxies, channel tools) is refused with the sameerror before it is added. A remote app's tool named like an alias is left out, with the conflict in a warning, and
the rest of that app's tools, resources and prompts load as before.
TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICTas a misconfiguration: a Worker or edge handler answers500 {"error":"server_misconfigured","code":"TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT"}with a fixed remedy, never the aliases.codecall:execute,codecall:invoke,codecall:describe) resolves a name astools/calldoes, aliasfirst, so its policy judges the tool the call runs.
remedy?: { say: string; tool?: string; args?: Record<string, unknown> }onPublicMcpError(new exported typeErrorRemedy), passed as the fifth constructor argument afterwwwAuthenticate:data.remedy(resources/read,prompts/get, and every other request answered with a JSON-RPCerror), next to the data the error already declares;
tools/callerror result, appended to the text as a last line,To fix: Turn on Reviews in Settings (call settings_set with {"feature":"reviews"}), and kept structured in_meta.remedy.refused(message, { code?, status?, remedy? }), a public refusal forthis.fail(...),'REFUSED'and 403unless given others (new exported type
RefusalOptions):this.fail(refused('Reviews are off', { code: 'FEATURE_OFF', remedy: { say: 'Turn on Reviews in Settings', tool: 'settings_set' } })).EntryUnavailableErrornames the environment itsavailableWhenasks for:Run the server where env is production to use this tool.It has none when a missing axis allows no value (anempty list), since no environment offers the entry.
FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLEDrefusal names the flag:Turn on the feature flag "beta-tools" to use this tool.Different from the plan, and why:
_meta.remedyon thetools/callerror result, besides the text line: a tool call is answered with anisErrorresult, not a JSON-RPC error, so
data.remedynever reaches it, and the remedy'stoolandargsare meant to beread by a client, not parsed out of text.
(message, code, status, wwwAuthenticate)signature stays as it is.
ToolRegistry.registerToolInstance(), so every runtime path is covered, notonly
registerTool(). It checks the registry's own tools and the scope's, before the tool is added. A remote appcatches it per tool: failing the whole discovery left the tools before the conflict registered and dropped the
app's resources and prompts, on every retry, so a remote server could take its own app down by adding one tool.
lookupTool()reads the scope's tool list once per lookup for its three passes (alias, name,owner.name), asthe SDK: avoid the per-call O(N) lineage scan in hook-owner resolution #598 test that counts the lookups requires.
User-facing change
@Tooloptionaliases(also on the function-styletool({...})).remedyonPublicMcpError(fifth constructor argument), newrefused()helper, new exported typesErrorRemedyandRefusalOptions.ToolAliasConflictError(TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICT), also aserver_misconfiguredcode.EntryUnavailableErrorand the feature-flag plugin'sFeatureFlagDisabledErrorcarry a remedy.owner.name→ itdeclares
aliases, which are callable, never listed, and win over theowner.namereading.datawas{ errorId, code }(or whattoJsonRpcError()declares) → it also hasremedywhen the error carries one.
tools/callerror result forENTRY_UNAVAILABLEorFEATURE_FLAG_DISABLEDwas the message alone → the messageplus a
To fix: …line, and_meta.remedy. Clients that compare the whole text see the extra line.@Tooloptions reference (https://frontmcp.dev/reference/sdk/tool),the tool error-handling page, the
availableWhen/ availability page, and the feature-flags plugin page.create-tool/SKILL.md(triggers and the reference index);create-tool/references/decorator-options.md(aliasesrow, and its interaction withowner.name, remote appsand CodeCall);
create-tool/references/error-handling.md(new "Refusals that carry a remedy" section; theEntryUnavailableErrorrow now shows its real code,'ENTRY_UNAVAILABLE');create-tool/references/availability.md(the error example now shows the realdatashape, withremedy);frontmcp-development/references/decorators-guide.md(aliasesin the@Tooltable);frontmcp-development/references/official-plugins.md(the feature-flag refusal's remedy);frontmcp-deployment/references/deploy-to-cloudflare.md(TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICTamong theserver_misconfiguredcodes);skills-manifest.json(the error-handling reference description).Tests
Unit:
libs/sdk/src/tool/__tests__/call-tool-names.spec.ts: a tool called by each alias overtools/call;review.listreaches the aliased tool while
review:listreaches the app'slisttool; an alias throughthis.callTool();aliases absent from
tools/list; one info line per alias, naming the tool; an alias of an unavailable tool answersENTRY_UNAVAILABLEwith the remedy line and_meta.remedy; startup fails withToolAliasConflictErrorwhen analias is another app's tool name, when two apps' tools declare one alias, and when a tool lists its own name; a
runtime tool named like an alias is refused and not listed; an empty alias is rejected where the tool is declared.
libs/sdk/src/errors/__tests__/mcp.error.spec.ts:refused()defaults and overrides; theTo fix:line in itsthree forms and
_meta.remedy; no change without a remedy; theEntryUnavailableErrorremedy, and none when noenvironment can offer the entry.
libs/sdk/src/transport/mcp-handlers/__tests__/mcp-error.utils.spec.ts:data.remedyfor a public error, mergedinto the data an error declares (
EntryUnavailableError), and absent without a remedy.plugins/plugin-feature-flags:FeatureFlagDisabledErrorcarries the remedy; through the real flows, thetools/callrefusal has the line and_meta.remedy, theresources/readrefusal hasdata.remedy, and a disabledtool called by its alias is refused like its name (the plugin sits on the app, so this also checks that the hooks
of the alias's tool are the ones that run).
plugins/plugin-codecall/src/__tests__/codecall-access-control.flow.spec.ts: through the real flows, an aliasspelled like another tool's hyphen/underscore name (
get-report, next toget_report) is judged as the tool itreaches, so
codecall:executeandcodecall:invokerefuse it when that tool isenabledInCodeCall: false; it ranbefore, past the policy. An allowed tool runs by its alias.
libs/sdk/src/app/__tests__/app.remote.instance.spec.ts: a remote tool named like a local alias is left out, theremote's other tools and prompts still load, across a re-discovery, and the alias reaches the local tool.
libs/sdk/src/errors/__tests__/misconfiguration.spec.tsandlibs/sdk/src/front-mcp/__tests__/fetch-handler.startup-checks.spec.ts:TOOL_ALIAS_CONFLICTis amisconfiguration code, and an edge fetch handler answers
500 server_misconfiguredfor it (it answered 503 before)without echoing the aliases.
E2E:
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-multiapp/e2e/tool-aliases.e2e.spec.ts(newreviewapp): the old dotted namereview.listcalls
review_list; the alias is not intools/list;review.listreaches the alias whilereview:listreachesthe app's
listtool; andsrc/alias-collision.main.ts, a separate server with a second tool claiming the alias,fails startup naming both tools.
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-feature-flags:resources/readandprompts/getrefusals carrydata.remedynaming the flag;the
tools/callrefusal has theTo fix:line and_meta.remedy.apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/tool-aliases-must-compile.ts:aliases,refused(),ErrorRemedyandthe
PublicMcpErrorremedy argument type-check from the published declarations; a remedy withoutsayand astring
aliasesare rejected.Ran locally:
nx run-many -t lint,build -p sdk plugin-codecall plugin-feature-flags skills(lint: no errors; no warnings in thenew code)
passing
nx test demo-e2e-multiapp(30 passed),demo-e2e-feature-flags(33),demo-e2e-dts-consumer(15),demo-e2e-env-awareness(30; its unavailable-entry answers now carry the remedy line),demo-e2e-codecall(37) anddemo-e2e-remote(31)node scripts/fix-unused-imports.mjs,prettier --checkon the changed files, andtsc --noEmiton the multiappfixture
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