Failed API calls should not be failures, not errors #420

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Failed API calls should not be failures, not errors#420

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on May 21, 2025

An example:

github-mcp-server/pkg/github/context_tools.go

Line 34 in 4ccedee

return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get user: %w", err)

As discussed here and here in general failures of this kind are not to be returned as errors, but instead returned as failed tool calls.

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