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Tool selection failure with certain MCP servers going from shell -> MCP -> shell -> MCP

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### Describe the bug

I'm getting into a loop when CLI switches between shell and tool commands with certain MCP servers. CLI seems to be unable to "find" the MCP call it is looking for and reverts back to shell and is unable to proceed. It keeps trying useless shell commands and eventually gives up without actually doing what it was asked.

### Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.41-0

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Set up MCP server (either the Unity official one, or an open source Unity MCP, OR the official Atlassian MCP server (https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp)
2. Issue the following prompt: "can you try a test with a simple shell command followed a test Confluence request and then back to shell again? repeat this sequence exactly twice"
3. You may have to issue this prompt twice in a row to get the resulting behavior

Another repro is to attempt to use one of these MCP servers with a workflow where it naturally has to switch back and forth between MCP and shell commands.

### Expected behavior

For this prompt, it should issue a shell command (such as Write-Output), followed by a successful MCP call, followed by another similar shell command. It should do this consistently and without extra shell commands.

### Additional context

This:
1) Only seems to happen in Copilot CLI (not VSCode)
2) Only seems to happen with certain (kinds of?) MCP servers (I have tried several different Unity MCP servers as well as the official Atlassian server)
3) Only seems to be an issue when it switches back and forth between shell (aka Powerhsell) commands and unity MCP tool calls.

A possible clue is when it sometimes fails with "I couldn’t get the Unity console output in this turn because the Unity console tool isn’t visible in my callable tool schema right now, even though it appeared in the prior tools-changed notice."

I don't know what's different about certain servers, (maybe a latency thing?) but most of them do not seem to lead to this issue.

Possibly coincidentally, this seemed to start happening around the time of the change to use .mcp.json instead of mcp.json.

I can attach log files if that would be helpful.

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Direzione di ricerca

Inizia riproducendo la sequenza shell-a-MCP-a-shell in Copilot CLI 1.0.41-0 con il server MCP Unity o Atlassian descritto nell'issue. Esamina la selezione degli strumenti della CLI e la gestione dello schema degli strumenti chiamabili, soprattutto in relazione alla transizione a .mcp.json; usa i log se forniti. Il lavoro è completato quando la sequenza richiesta viene eseguita in modo coerente senza comandi shell non necessari né strumenti MCP mancanti.

Scritto dal modello di indicizzazione a partire dal testo della issue.

Valutazione

Stack tecnologico
powershell, shell
Ambito
cli, tooling
Tipo di issue
Bug
Difficoltà
4/5
Tempo stimato
3-5 giorni
Stato di attività
Tranquilla
Chiarezza
Abbastanza chiara
Idoneità per principianti
38/100

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