diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index d8ad0b8c..8c26319a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@
 - [Alex Thewsey](https://github.com/athewsey)
 - [Kaustav Dey](https://github.com/kaustavbecs)
 - [Tony Santiago](https://github.com/tsanti)
-- [Lucas Banerji](https://github.com/LucaiB)
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+- [Lucas Banerji](https://github.com/LucaiB)
+- [Banjo Obayomi](https://github.com/aws-banjo)
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diff --git a/src/InlineAgent/src/InlineAgent/agent/process_roc.py b/src/InlineAgent/src/InlineAgent/agent/process_roc.py
index c769757d..253ba845 100644
--- a/src/InlineAgent/src/InlineAgent/agent/process_roc.py
+++ b/src/InlineAgent/src/InlineAgent/agent/process_roc.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import inspect
 import json
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Union
+
 from termcolor import colored
 
 from InlineAgent.constants import TraceColor
@@ -44,20 +45,18 @@ async def process_roc(
             parameters = dict()
             for param in functionInvocationInput["parameters"]:
                 if param["type"] == "array":
-                    result = None
                     try:
-                        result = json.loads(param["value"])
-                    except Exception:
-                        json_str = (
-                            param["value"]
-                            .replace("=", ":")
-                            .replace("[{", '[{"')
-                            .replace("}]", '"}]')
-                        )
-                        json_str = json_str.replace(", ", '", "').replace(":", '":"')
-                        result = json.loads(json_str)
-                    finally:
-                        parameters[param["name"]] = result
+                        # First try direct JSON parsing
+                        parameters[param["name"]] = json.loads(param["value"])
+                    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                        # If that fails, try to clean up the string to make it valid JSON
+                        value = param["value"]
+                        # Remove square brackets if they exist at start/end
+                        if value.startswith("[") and value.endswith("]"):
+                            value = value[1:-1]
+                        # Split by comma and clean up each item
+                        items = [item.strip() for item in value.split(",")]
+                        parameters[param["name"]] = items
                 elif param["type"] == "string":
                     parameters[param["name"]] = param["value"]
                 elif param["type"] == "number":