{"version":"2.1.265","anchor":"mcp-tool-calls-now-mark-session-as-parked-on-user-while-aw","canonical_anchor":"mcp-tool-calls-now-mark-session-as-parked-on-user-while-aw","heading":"MCP tool calls now mark session as 'parked on user' while awaiting elicitation","tier":"internal","area":"MCP","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.265\/e\/mcp-tool-calls-now-mark-session-as-parked-on-user-while-aw","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.265","markdown":"### MCP tool calls now mark session as 'parked on user' while awaiting elicitation\n\nMCP tool calls now flag the session as waiting on the user while an elicitation prompt is pending\n\n**What**\n\nWhen an MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool other than the configured permission-prompt tool starts waiting for user input, Claude Code now marks the session as 'parked on user' by incrementing an internal counter used for idle detection, and releases it again once the wait ends.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis should prevent a session from being wrongly treated as idle while it's actually waiting on the person to respond to an MCP tool's prompt, which matters for any idle-timeout or idle-detection behavior tied to that counter.\n\n- Area: MCP\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}