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Exercise

Making API Tool Calls Robust

In production, the currency server's convert_currency() tool should not hang if the exchange-rate API is slow or unreachable. To mitigate this, you'll implement a timeout to the request and ensure any failure returns a short, clear error message to the user instead of a raw exception.

An MCP server has already been instantiated and stored as the variable mcp.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Implement try-except logic that will attempt the API request, and gracefully fail if an error is returned by capturing the exception.
  • Add a timeout of 10 seconds to the requests.get() call so the request does not hang indefinitely.