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fix(execute_code): keep the error text of timeouts and disconnects
vo-doo-prog Nov 3, 2026
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fix(execute_code): do not forward the transport's retry hint
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py
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Expand Up @@ -94,8 +94,13 @@ async def execute_code(
if not isinstance(response, dict):
return {"success": False, "message": str(response)}

return {
result = {
"success": response.get("success", False),
"message": response.get("message", response.get("error", "")),
# Transport failures (timeout, disconnect) carry "message": None and the text in "error".
"message": response.get("message") or response.get("error") or "",
"data": response.get("data"),
}
for key in ("error", "hint"):
if response.get(key) is not None:
result[key] = response[key]

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Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

rg -n 'hint' Server/src/transport Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py Server/src/services/tools/custom_tool_service.py Server/src/services/tools/utils.py | head -80
sed -n 60,115p Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py

Repository: CoplayDev/unity-mcp

Length of output: 3992

Script executed:

git diff e2fd09c71644d1d9fa1ae134526ce913cbf97536 82ef7e97771b7b1eb0b064c6003c4877c3134f03 -- Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py || true
echo '--- unity_connection.py 900-945'
sed -n 900,945p Server/src/transport/legacy/unity_connection.py
echo '--- plugin_hub.py 330-370'
sed -n 330,370p Server/src/transport/plugin_hub.py
echo '--- unity_transport.py 80-115'
sed -n 80,115p Server/src/transport/unity_transport.py
echo '--- send_with_unity_instance definitions'
rg -n -F -- 'def send_with_unity_instance' Server/src || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '--- timeout handling in unity_connection.py'
rg -n -i -e 'timeout' -e 'Disconnect' -e 'ConnectionError' Server/src/transport/legacy/unity_connection.py || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: CoplayDev/unity-mcp

Length of output: 10822

Do not forward the retry hint for execute and replay.

Transport failures from the plugin path return hint="retry". A disconnect does this directly, and a timeout does it through the generic exception handler. The PR now passes that hint to the client. A snippet can keep running in Unity after the transport reports failure. A client that resends the request can run the same side effects twice.

Keep the error text. Drop the hint for these actions:

Suggested fix 
--- "a/Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py"
+++ "b/Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py"
@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@
         "message": response.get("message") or response.get("error") or "",
         "data": response.get("data"),
     }
-    for key in ("error", "hint"):
-        if response.get(key) is not None:
-            result[key] = response[key]
+    for key in ("error", "hint"):
+        value = response.get(key)
+        if value is None:
+            continue
+        if key == "hint" and value == "retry" and action in ("execute", "replay"):
+            continue
+        result[key] = value
     return result

This also drops the safe reload-wait retry hint for these actions. Update the timeout test to expect the error text without a retry hint for execute and replay.

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for key in ("error", "hint"):
if response.get(key) is not None:
result[key] = response[key]
for key in ("error", "hint"):
value = response.get(key)
if value is None:
continue
if key == "hint" and value == "retry" and action in ("execute", "replay"):
continue
result[key] = value
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Review comment at @Server/src/services/tools/execute_code.py around lines 103 -
105:
Update the response-field filtering so `error` is preserved, but `hint="retry"`
is omitted when `action` is `execute` or `replay`; continue forwarding other
non-null fields and hints. Update the timeout expectations for these actions to
verify the error text is returned without a retry hint.

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Agreed that a retry hint is unsafe here: a timed-out snippet may still be running in Unity. Fixed in aef3da0, a bit more narrowly than suggested: execute_code now forwards only error and no hint for any action. Before this PR it forwarded no hint at all, so nothing is lost. The only other hint the transport sets, select_instance, is already explained by the error text and the instance list in data. The regression test now checks that hint is absent.

Also from the summary:

  • Linked issue: changed Fixes #1508 to Relates to #1508. The issue's timeout_seconds / no-re-send request is out of scope for this PR, so the issue stays open.
  • Docstring coverage: skipped. The tool is documented in its @mcp_for_unity_tool(description=...) and the module docstring, like the other tools in services/tools/.

Tests: tests/test_execute_code.py 18 passed; full Server/tests 1592 passed, 3 skipped.

return result
20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions Server/tests/test_execute_code.py
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Expand Up @@ -126,6 +126,26 @@ def test_error_response_normalized(mock_unity_error):
assert "Compilation failed" in result["message"]


def test_transport_error_with_null_message_keeps_error(monkeypatch):
# Transport failures arrive as MCPResponse(...).model_dump(), so "message" is present but None.
async def fake_send(send_fn, unity_instance, tool_name, params):
return {"success": False, "message": None, "error": "TimeoutError", "data": None, "hint": "retry"}

monkeypatch.setattr(
"services.tools.execute_code.get_unity_instance_from_context",
AsyncMock(return_value="unity-instance-1"),
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
"services.tools.execute_code.send_with_unity_instance",
fake_send,
)
result = asyncio.run(execute_code(SimpleNamespace(), action="execute", code="return 1;"))
assert result["success"] is False
assert "TimeoutError" in result["message"]
assert result["error"] == "TimeoutError"
assert result["hint"] == "retry"


def test_non_dict_response_handled(monkeypatch):
async def fake_send(send_fn, unity_instance, tool_name, params):
return "unexpected"
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