@Tool(returnDirect = true) did not take effect in the MCP service. It still returned the model's response.

Comment From: sunyuhan1998

I don't think it's working so far, you can refer to my comment under another issue with the same report: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/issues/3481#issuecomment-2955636384

Comment From: sunyuhan1998

There have been some new developments on the issue and we can keep an eye on it in #3481

Comment From: ilayaperumalg

Closing this as duplicate as there have been some ongoing conversations in #3481 as pointed by @sunyuhan1998.