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Claude for Excel (Mac) does not recognize structuredContent
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Description
### What happened?
Prior to ~7/30, Claude for Excel appeared to accept structuredContent MCP responses, but past that date we are seeing MCP tool calls made via the Excel plugin universally return empty-array response data unless a content response field is provided as fallback for backwards compatibility.
Note that this is **not** the case for claude.ai overall, which continues to properly handle structuredContent. This looks like it's specific to the Office plugin, and FWIW I have only confirmed the behavior in Office for Mac (have not tested Office online or Windows desktop versions).
### What did you expect to happen?
StructuredContent responses would be handled as previously and as observed in claude.ai generally.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Install Claude for Excel plugin (Mac)
2. Connect to an MCP server which returns only structuredContent responses
3. Observe that all tool calls return empty data
### Area
Tool Discovery / Invocation
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### Error messages or logs
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