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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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### Additional context

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