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Claude Code v2.1.234 ·

MCP idle timeouts are classified as unreachable, not generic failures

MCP servers that go silent are now reported as unreachable rather than a generic error.

Under the hood Improvements
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ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.234,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

When an MCP server sends neither a response nor progress before the idle timeout, the resulting error now carries mcpErrorSource: "downstream_unreachable", joining the existing "downstream_error" and "user_auth" sources. Both MCP client code paths are covered.

Evidence

mcpErrorSource: "downstream_unreachable"

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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