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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

MCP tools routed through the REPL instead of the tool list, switched off

MCP tools could be called from inside the REPL rather than listed as top-level tools.

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The selecting predicate returns false outright, so the alternative wording is unreachable.

What

Groundwork is present for a mode in which tools from connected MCP servers (external tool servers Claude Code connects to) are called from inside the REPL environment rather than advertised as top-level tools. The predicate that selects this mode is a function whose whole body returns false, so the filter never fires and the wait-for-servers tool always emits the existing wording, "The server's tools should now be available." and "its tools will be added to your tool list". The alternative phrasing describing REPL-callable tools is compiled in but unreachable.

Details
  • MCP authentication stub tools are now tagged isAuthStub: !0 in their server info, a field absent from 2.1.247.
  • Two new helpers read that tag: one narrows a tool list to non-MCP tools plus auth stubs, the other decides whether MCP tools stay deferrable and whether callers pass keepMcp.
  • The REPL surface itself is gated on tengu_slate_harbor, which falls back to false, and applies only to the cli and remote entrypoints.
  • The wait tool still returns ready=true on the existing path, so no behaviour visible to users changes in this build.
Evidence

rather than advertising them as top-level tools). Returns ready=true when, callable inside the REPL environment (this surface routes MCP tools through the REPL rather than advertising them as top-level tools), The server's tools should now be available., tengu_slate_harbor, isAuthStub, keepMcp

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

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tengu_slate_harbor Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.248: off

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