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Fix app tool routing: visibility check and middleware propagation#3591

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Addresses two issues from #3587 review comments:

Visibility check: get_app_tool now only returns tools that have "app" in their meta.ui.visibility. Previously it would return @app.ui() tools (which are model-only, visibility=["model"]), letting a UI invoke entry-point tools it shouldn't be able to call.

Middleware propagation: When an app tool is found through a mounted server (FastMCPProvider), the tool's _run method now passes app_name to the child server's call_tool. Without this, the child server tried normal resolution (which fails because transforms block the untransformed name).

app = FastMCPApp("deep")

@app.tool()
def hidden(x: str) -> str:
    return x

inner = FastMCP("Inner")
inner.add_provider(app, namespace="app")

outer = FastMCP("Outer")
outer.mount(inner, namespace="inner")

# Works: routes through 4 levels, child middleware runs
await outer.call_tool("hidden", {"x": "found"}, app_name="deep")

- get_app_tool now checks that tools have "app" in their visibility,
  preventing model-only @app.ui() tools from being callable via app routing
- FastMCPProviderTool._run passes app_name to child server so app tool
  routing works through mounted servers (child middleware runs correctly)
- add_tool sets default visibility=["app"] when not specified
@marvin-context-protocol marvin-context-protocol Bot added bug Something isn't working. Reports of errors, unexpected behavior, or broken functionality. server Related to FastMCP server implementation or server-side functionality. provider Related to the FastMCP Provider class labels Mar 22, 2026
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raw_tool = await self.server.get_app_tool(app_name, tool_name)
if raw_tool is None:
return None
return FastMCPProviderTool.wrap(self.server, raw_tool)
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P2 Badge Preserve direct Tool.run() for mounted app lookups

FastMCPProvider.get_app_tool() now wraps the child tool before returning it, but FastMCPProviderTool.run() still delegates with only self._original_name. In a mounted app behind transforms (for example outer.mount(inner, namespace="inner") with inner.add_provider(app, namespace="app")), await outer.get_app_tool("deep", "hidden") now returns a wrapper whose run({...}) raises NotFoundError, because the child server needs app_name to bypass its transforms. Before this change get_app_tool() returned the raw tool, so the public Tool returned by this API remained directly callable.

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