You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MCPArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
More user-facing messages now escape values before printing them: MCP reconnect notices and the managed-policy block message quote the server name through a helper, and a config parse error shows the escaped input rather than the raw token. The MCP stale-entry hint is only appended if the whole message stays within 1024 characters, otherwise the plain message is shown.
Details
The stale advice text about /mcp enable and /mcp disable moved from a fixed string to a lookup.
Evidence
Expected key=value, got, was disabled in another session — disable and re-enable it in /mcp, or restart, to reconnect
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed /mcp listing a project .mcp.json entry that declares the claude.ai connector type under the trusted "claude.ai" heading; it now…
