CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_CONNECTOR_PREWAIT_MS
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.271, including the newest one read.
New CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_CONNECTOR_PREWAIT_MS environment variable overrides how long Claude Code waits for remote MCP servers to start
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.271.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_CONNECTOR_PREWAIT_MS.
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v2.1.286
Two environment variables for waiting on named MCP servers at startup
CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_PREWAIT_SERVERSandCLAUDE_CODE_MCP_PREWAIT_SERVERS_MSappear to let startup wait for particular MCP serversfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.284
Non-interactive runs wait for required MCP servers before the first turn
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-pand SDK sessions, Claude Code now waits for MCP servers it deems required before the first turn, even when loading is deferredfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.271
MCP connector prewait now overridable via
CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_CONNECTOR_PREWAIT_MSNew CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_CONNECTOR_PREWAIT_MS environment variable overrides how long Claude Code waits for remote MCP servers to start
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_CONNECTOR_PREWAIT_MS was v2.1.271, 14 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
1Build by build
45One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the environment variable does. All environment variables.