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dosentmatter opened this issue Apr 27, 2025 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #122
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Azure CLI command parsing bugs (MacOS) #54

dosentmatter opened this issue Apr 27, 2025 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #122
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macOS 15.4

zsh 5.9

@azure/mcp@0.0.10

https://github.com/Azure/azure-mcp/blob/main/docs/azmcp-commands.md#azure-cli-extension-operations

CLI issues:

fails:

% azmcp extension az --command 'group list'
Unrecognized command or argument 'list'.

works:
Seems to require manual escaping

% azmcp extension az --command 'group\ list'
{
  "status": 200,
  "message": "Success",
  ... 
}

fails:

% azmcp extension az --command 'ad user list --filter "startswith(displayName,'"'John'"')"'
Unrecognized command or argument 'user'.
Unrecognized command or argument 'list'.
Unrecognized command or argument '--filter'.
Unrecognized command or argument 'startswith(displayName,'John')'.

works:
Again, manual escaping

% azmcp extension az --command 'ad\ user\ list\ --filter\ "startswith(displayName,'"'John'"')"'
{
  "status": 200,
  "message": "Success",
  ...
}

fails:

% azmcp extension az --command 'ad\ user\ list\ --filter\ "startswith(displayName,'"'John Doe'"')"'
{
  "status": 500,
  "message": "ERROR: unrecognized arguments: Doe')\n\nExamples from AI knowledge base:\naz ad user list\nList Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)\n\naz ad user list --upn {upn}\nList Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)\n\nhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cli/azure/ad/user#az_ad_user_list\nRead more about the command in reference docs",
  ...
}

fails:
Haven't figured out the way the escape this command for azmcp to not fail yet.

% azmcp extension az --command 'ad\ user\ list\ --filter\ "startswith(displayName,'"'John\ Doe'"')"'
{
  "status": 500,
  "message": "ERROR: unrecognized arguments: Doe')\n\nExamples from AI knowledge base:\naz ad user list\nList Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)\n\naz ad user list --upn {upn}\nList Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)\n\nhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cli/azure/ad/user#az_ad_user_list\nRead more about the command in reference docs",
  ...
}

VS Code Copilot

works:
Image

{
  "command": "group list",
  "auth-method": "credential"
}

[{...},{...},{...}]

fails:
Image

Doesn't get the argument passed to --filter. Retry continues to fail.

{
  "command": "ad user list --filter \"startswith(displayName,'John Doe')\"",
  "auth-method": "credential"
}

{
  "ExitCode": 2,
  "Error": "ERROR: argument --filter: expected one argument\n\nExamples from AI knowledge base:\naz ad user list\nList Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)\n\naz ad user list --upn {upn}\nList Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)\n\nhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cli/azure/ad/user#az_ad_user_list\nRead more about the command in reference docs",
  "Command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/az ad user list --filter "
}

Formatted error:

ERROR: argument --filter: expected one argument

Examples from AI knowledge base:
az ad user list
List Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)

az ad user list --upn {upn}
List Azure Active Directory users. (autogenerated)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cli/azure/ad/user#az_ad_user_list
Read more about the command in reference docs
@joshfree joshfree added the bug Something isn't working label Apr 28, 2025
@joshfree joshfree moved this from Untriaged to Not Started in Azure MCP Server Apr 28, 2025
@joshfree joshfree added this to the 2025-05 milestone Apr 28, 2025
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Thanks for reporting this, @dosentmatter. @xiangyan99 can you look at this as part of your refactoring of azcli mcp tooling?

@joshfree joshfree changed the title Azure CLI command parsing Azure CLI command parsing bugs Apr 28, 2025
@joshfree joshfree added the area-AzCLI Azure CLI related label Apr 28, 2025
@joshfree joshfree assigned conniey and unassigned xiangyan99 Apr 30, 2025
@joshfree joshfree changed the title Azure CLI command parsing bugs Azure CLI command parsing bugs (MacOS) May 6, 2025
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Add arg debug output to program.cs and fix arg passing from js hallipr/azure-mcp
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