Tools do not work with Copilot CLI

[fmatsos]

Hi!

I got some erreors when my client (Copilot CLI) tries to execute tools from the MCP server.

The server is well configured, with sse connection, using Docker. You can see below that Copilot communicates well with it:

But when I do a prompt to Copilot and it tries to execute a tool, I always have an error despite the model choice (the error changes depending on model):

• GPT-5: Model call failed: {"message":"Invalid 'tools[52].function.name': string does not match pattern. Expected a string that matches the pattern '^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\.-]+$'.","code":"invalid_value"}
• Sonnet 4: Model call failed: {"message":"tools.52.custom.name: String should match pattern '^[a-zA-Z0-9_-] 1,128}$'","code":"invalid_request_body"}
• Sonnet 4.5: Model call failed: "400 400 Bad Request\n"

Below the detailed errors from logs:

Sonnet 4

2025-10-01T08:07:42.530Z [ERROR] {
  "status": 400,
  "headers": {
    "content-length": "12",
    "content-security-policy": "default-src 'none'; sandbox",
    "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
    "date": "Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:07:42 GMT",
    "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000",
    "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
    "x-github-backend": "Kubernetes",
    "x-github-request-id": "EA56:27BEE:BBEBD:DDFE0:68DCE14D",
    "x-request-id": "00000-ee07ab1c-8a11-42df-b8c6-868ce769b709"
  },
  "request_id": "00000-ee07ab1c-8a11-42df-b8c6-868ce769b709",
  "ghRequestId": "EA56:27BEE:BBEBD:DDFE0:68DCE14D",
  "name": "CAPIError"
}

GPT-5

2025-10-01T08:29:53.462Z [ERROR] {
  "status": 400,
  "headers": {
    "content-length": "129",
    "content-security-policy": "default-src 'none'; sandbox",
    "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
    "date": "Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:29:53 GMT",
    "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000",
    "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
    "x-github-backend": "Kubernetes",
    "x-github-request-id": "E6A4:14B8B3:64AB1:76364:68DCE680",
    "x-request-id": "00000-5ddef6ae-093f-4c17-b89d-1463c52fdf67"
  },
  "request_id": "00000-5ddef6ae-093f-4c17-b89d-1463c52fdf67",
  "error": {
    "message": "tools.52.custom.name: String should match pattern '^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,128}$'",
    "code": "invalid_request_body"
  },
  "code": "invalid_request_body",
  "ghRequestId": "E6A4:14B8B3:64AB1:76364:68DCE680",
  "name": "CAPIError"
}

Sonnet 4.5

2025-10-01T08:30:08.768Z [ERROR] {
  "status": 400,
  "headers": {
    "content-length": "179",
    "content-security-policy": "default-src 'none'; sandbox",
    "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
    "date": "Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:30:08 GMT",
    "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000",
    "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
    "x-github-backend": "Kubernetes",
    "x-github-request-id": "B696:1D0275:C873E:E8367:68DCE68F",
    "x-request-id": "00000-5b7623f2-576e-4867-a5ee-dc9eed2e125b"
  },
  "request_id": "00000-5b7623f2-576e-4867-a5ee-dc9eed2e125b",
  "error": {
    "message": "Invalid 'tools[52].function.name': string does not match pattern. Expected a string that matches the pattern '^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\.-]+$'.",
    "code": "invalid_value"
  },
  "code": "invalid_value",
  "ghRequestId": "B696:1D0275:C873E:E8367:68DCE68F",
  "name": "CAPIError"
}