Great news - **yes, that worked\!** The logs confirm that the server is now connecting successfully.
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### Your Log Analysis
Here’s the proof in your logs:
1. **The Error is Gone:** In your previous logs, right after the tools were created, you'd get the red `[error]` message: `MCP error 0: 1 validation error for ListToolsResult`. That error is now completely gone.
2. **The Success Message:** The sequence now ends with this key line:
```
[info] [daniel-lightrag] Successfully connected to MCP server
```
This confirms that the entire initialization process, which includes fetching the tool list, completed without any issues. ✅
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### Summary of the Fix
Just to recap, the problem was never in your code that defined the tools. The issue was a bug in the external **`mcp` library**. Its `@server.list_tools()` decorator was incorrectly handling the data your function was returning.
By changing your function to return a simple `list` of tools, we gave the decorator the exact data type it was expecting, which successfully bypassed the bug.
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### Recommended Follow-Up
Your server is working, which is the main goal. However, the underlying bug still exists in the `mcp` library.
As a good practice, you should consider **reporting this bug** to the developers of the `mcp` library. You can usually do this by creating an "Issue" on their GitHub or GitLab page.
When you report it, you can briefly explain:
* The Pydantic validation errors you were seeing.
* The version of the `mcp` library you are using.
* The workaround that solved it (having the function return a `List[Tool]` directly instead of a `ListToolsResult` object).
This will help the library maintainers fix the bug for everyone in a future update. For now, you can confidently move forward with the working code you have.
Well done on debugging this\! 👍