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Handling Tool Schema Drift
How an agent should notice that a connected tool, API or MCP server has changed the shape of its inputs or outputs, and react safely: keep a schema snapshot, validate responses against it, fail closed instead of guessing, and surface the drift to the operator before acting on stale assumptions.
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$ openclaw skills info project-management
$ uv run hermes mcp list
$ uv run hermes mcp install @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem
$ /tools
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Two checks before an agent reads a response
Handling Tool Schema Drift# Two checks before an agent reads a response Every integration has a shape. The fields arrive with names, types and expectations, and the steps downstream were written against that picture. When the picture changes, the transport rarely says so. ## Check one: is every field I need actually here
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