{"version":"2.1.274","anchor":"mcp-connect-timeout-retry-and-legacy-sse-fallback-gates-refe","canonical_anchor":"mcp-connect-timeout-retry-and-legacy-sse-fallback-gates-refe","heading":"MCP connect-timeout retry and legacy SSE fallback gates referenced","tier":"soon","area":"MCP","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274\/e\/mcp-connect-timeout-retry-and-legacy-sse-fallback-gates-refe","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274","markdown":"### MCP connect-timeout retry and legacy SSE fallback gates referenced\n\nMCP connection code references two settings controlling connect-timeout retries and legacy SSE fallback\n\n**What**\n\nMCP (Model Context Protocol) connection handling now references two settings: `tengu_mcp_connect_timeout_retry`, which controls whether a connection timeout is treated as something worth retrying, and `tengu_mcp_legacy_sse_fallback`, which controls whether Claude Code falls back to the older HTTP+SSE (Server-Sent Events) connection style when a server rejects its initial connection request.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese give Claude Code more resilient fallback behavior when an MCP server times out or doesn't support the newer connection method, though no reading of either setting's current value is available yet for this account.\n\n- Flag `tengu_mcp_connect_timeout_retry`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.274; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: on) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Flag `tengu_mcp_legacy_sse_fallback`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.274; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: on) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: MCP\n- Names: `tengu_mcp_connect_timeout_retry`, `tengu_mcp_legacy_sse_fallback`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}