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MCP disabled servers repeatedly re-authenticated, flooding logs

Cluster 114738 · mcp. Data as of

1 open item. Fix merged in #116712 on 20 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #116712. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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A bug caused MCP servers configured with enabled:false to be repeatedly re-authenticated and generate excessive error log entries. Multiple fixes address the parked self-probe honouring the disabled state and deleted config entries.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#114752fix(mcp): parked self-probe honours enabled:false and deleted config entries

Fixes on record

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  • #116712 fix(mcp): parked servers stop flooding the error log and honour enabled:false on the self-probe (#115713, #114738, salvage #114752 #115775)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_mcp_failure_classification.py, tests/tools/test_mcp_park_log_dedupe.py, tests/tools/test_mcp_parked_probe_no_browser.py, tests/tools/test_mcp_parked_probe_skips_disabled.py, tests/tools/test_mcp_parked_self_probe.py, tools/mcp_tool_server_run.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #114906 fix(mcp): a disabled server is no longer re-authenticated by the parked self-probe · done elsewhere → #116712, #114738
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#114738[Bug]: MCP servers with enabled: false keep being re-authenticated every 5 min — ~2,100 warning pairs in 2 days, fills errors.log
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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Merged PRs
#116712
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1 PR closed without merging
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20 Sep 2026

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