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MCP Tool with nested string dictionary parameters aren't callable

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Description

### Describe the bug

If I have an MCP tool written in C# using the official MCP library with something like:

```
McpServerTool, Description("Sample")
public static CallToolResult TestTool(Dictionary> param1, string param2)
{
var ctr = new CallToolResult()
ctr.Content = new List() { new TextContentBlock { Text = "true" } };
return ctr;
}
```

Then when I try to call it using the GitHub Copilot CLI, it only sees param2 as part of the signature. param1 gets dropped somehow.

This is a recent regression, it worked in 1.0.4 of the CLI. It also works correctly in Claude.

### Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.7.

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Create a sample MCP server using C# and a tool as described above
2. Configure it to be loaded by Copilot CLI
3. Write a prompt to invoke it describing data for both parameters
4. Note that it only sees the 2nd parameter and can't call the tool

### Expected behavior

It should be able to call the tool with both param1 and param2

### Additional context

Windows 11, x64

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