diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_semantic_tool_filter.py b/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_semantic_tool_filter.py
index 65e59fab0da..3549e9ec085 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_semantic_tool_filter.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_semantic_tool_filter.py
@@ -2240,16 +2240,12 @@ async def test_semantic_filter_hook_narrows_only_references_the_gateway_serves()
     assert narrowed == [{**gateway_reference, "allowed_tools": ["srv-tool_1"]}, external_tool]
 
 
-@pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_expand_mcp_tools_returns_every_expanded_tool_as_a_dict():
+def test_tool_as_dict_returns_every_expanded_tool_shape_as_a_dict():
     from typing import Optional
 
     from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict
 
-    from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-    from litellm.proxy.hooks.mcp_semantic_filter import SemanticToolFilterHook
-    from litellm.proxy.mcp_server.semantic_tool_filter import SemanticMCPToolFilter
-    from litellm.responses.mcp.litellm_proxy_mcp_handler import LiteLLM_Proxy_MCP_Handler
+    from litellm.proxy.hooks.mcp_semantic_filter.hook import _tool_as_dict
 
     class _FunctionTool(BaseModel):
         model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True)
@@ -2268,32 +2264,16 @@ async def test_expand_mcp_tools_returns_every_expanded_tool_as_a_dict():
 
     plain_tool = {"type": "function", "name": "plain_tool", "parameters": {"type": "object"}}
     unknown_tool = "opaque-tool"
-    pipeline_output = [
+    expanded_tools = (
         _FunctionTool(type="function", name="v2_tool"),
         _LegacyFunctionTool("legacy_tool"),
         plain_tool,
         unknown_tool,
-    ]
-    auth = UserAPIKeyAuth(api_key="hashed-key")
-    gateway_reference = {"type": "mcp", "server_url": "litellm_proxy", "require_approval": "never"}
-
-    hook = SemanticToolFilterHook(
-        SemanticMCPToolFilter(embedding_model="text-embedding-3-small", litellm_router_instance=Mock())
     )
-    with patch.object(
-        LiteLLM_Proxy_MCP_Handler,
-        "process_mcp_tools_to_openai_format",
-        new=AsyncMock(return_value=(pipeline_output, {})),
-    ) as process_tools:
-        expanded = await hook._expand_mcp_tools([gateway_reference], auth)
 
-    assert expanded == [
+    assert [_tool_as_dict(tool) for tool in expanded_tools] == [
         {"type": "function", "name": "v2_tool"},
         {"type": "function", "name": "legacy_tool"},
         plain_tool,
         unknown_tool,
     ]
-    assert process_tools.await_args.kwargs == {
-        "user_api_key_auth": auth,
-        "mcp_tools_with_litellm_proxy": [gateway_reference],
-    }