# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix excessive MCP warning when no servers configured

## Open now

- 1 issue, 3 PRs open on GitHub.
- #70881: MCP discovery: endless "previously exited with no connected servers; retrying discovery thread" warning when no mcp_servers are configured
- PR #70901: fix(mcp): prevent endless warning when no mcp_servers configured (#70881)
- PR #127678: fix(mcp): don't warn or retry when discovery has nothing to spawn
- PR #141189: fix(mcp): keep discovery idle for empty or disabled effective config

These issues and PRs address a bug where MCP discovery repeatedly logs a warning about retrying even when no MCP servers are configured. The fix prevents the warning and retry behavior from triggering unnecessarily in that case.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 3 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member 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.

## Open related issues

- #70881: MCP discovery: endless "previously exited with no connected servers; retrying discovery thread" warning when no mcp_servers are configured

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#70901: fix(mcp): prevent endless warning when no mcp_servers configured (#70881)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f0c6e94cdd4310bec8b9532c4d7655954a543a9e`, `66cd61f0d5`, `#70881`, `#141189`, `#85317`
  - files: `hermes_cli/mcp_startup.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_startup.py`
- **#127678: fix(mcp): don't warn or retry when discovery has nothing to spawn**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `66cd61f0d5`, `#141189`, `#85317`, `#70901`, `#141189`
  - files: `hermes_cli/mcp_startup.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_startup.py`
- **#141189: fix(mcp): keep discovery idle for empty or disabled effective config**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/mcp_startup.py`, `hermes_cli/plugins.py`, `hermes_cli/plugins_discovery.py`, `tests/acp_adapter/test_acp_mcp_discovery.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_startup.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_startup_disabled_config.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `mcp`