## Summary
Models — and some MCP transports — occasionally emit tool-call arguments
as a **JSON string instead of an object/dict**. The most visible trigger
is `COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL` on the Vercel AI SDK, where streaming
fails with:
> `messages.3.content.1.tool_use.input: Input should be a valid
dictionary`
Until now only a handful of providers guarded against this, each with
its own slightly different inline check, leaving most providers
vulnerable and behaviour inconsistent across the SDK.
This PR centralizes the coercion into **one helper per language** and
routes **every** provider through it, in both the TypeScript and Python
SDKs.
Closes https://github.com/ComposioHQ/composio/issues/2406
## What changed
**TypeScript** — new `normalizeToolArguments` in `@composio/core`
(exported), used by every provider:
`vercel`, `cloudflare`, `openai-agents`, `openai` (ChatCompletions +
Responses), `anthropic`, `google`, `langchain`, `llamaindex`,
`claude-agent-sdk`, `mastra`.
**Python** — new `normalize_tool_arguments` in `composio.utils.shared`,
used by every provider:
`openai`, `openai-responses`, `anthropic`, `google`, `langchain`,
`langgraph`, `crewai`, `autogen`, `llamaindex`, `gemini`, `google-adk`,
`openai-agents`, `claude-agent-sdk`.
Shared semantics (identical in both languages):
| Input | Result |
| --- | --- |
| object / dict | returned unchanged |
| JSON string | parsed to object |
| empty / whitespace string | `{}` |
| `null` / `undefined` / `None` | `{}` |
| array, primitive, unparseable string, JSON that isn't an object |
**typed error** (`ComposioInvalidToolArgumentsError` / `InvalidParams`)
with the original parse error as cause |
The typed error replaces the previous grab-bag of behaviours: a raw
`SyntaxError`/`JSONDecodeError`, or — worse — silently forwarding a
malformed string downstream.
## Why this supersedes the open PRs
This consolidates and extends three open PRs that each addressed a slice
of the problem inconsistently. Their authors are credited as co-authors
on the relevant commits:
- **#3489** (LlamaIndex + Claude Agent SDK, TS) — @srijanarya
- **#3438** (Anthropic, Google, LangChain, TS) — @aptsalt
- **#3437** (Google ADK empty schemas + name fix, Python) —
@pragnyanramtha — its empty-`input_parameters` / missing-description
handling and the `gemini` → `google_adk` provider-name fix are folded in
here.
Compared to the three combined, this PR additionally: covers **every**
provider in **both** SDKs (not a subset of one), defines a single source
of truth instead of per-provider snippets, normalizes empty/`null`
payloads to `{}`, and raises an actionable typed error instead of
leaking `SyntaxError` or forwarding a bad string.
## Tests
- Exhaustive unit tests for both helpers (object passthrough,
JSON-string parse, empty/null → `{}`, malformed/non-object → typed
error).
- Per-provider regression tests across the touched TypeScript providers
(string path, malformed-string path, empty-payload path).
- Full `@composio/core` + touched-provider TS suites pass; `typecheck`
and `lint` clean. Python `ruff` clean and new test green.
## Changeset
Patch bump for all affected TypeScript packages (`@composio/core` + the
providers). Python follows its own versioning, so no changeset there.
---------
Co-authored-by: srijanarya <74669415+srijanarya@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Deepak Singh Kandari <deepaksinghkandari07@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Pragnyan Ramtha <pragnyanramtha@gmail.com>
Alberto Schiabel