What
The interactive menu you see when you select a server in Claude Code's MCP (Model Context Protocol, a way for Claude Code to connect to external tools and data sources) server management screen used to offer three actions: Restart, Remove, and Back. The Restart option is now gone, leaving just Remove and Back.
Why
If you were used to restarting a misbehaving MCP server directly from this menu, that shortcut is no longer there.
Names in the bundleRestart
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Added since
A small documentation edit on Deploy with Enterprise Admin Console touched a line naming Restart after this was published.
Setting `status` to `disabled` stops serving the configuration to users' apps, as if none had been saved. A running app isn't interrupted. At its next launch it shows a **Restart required** prompt whose **Restart** button returns the devic…third-party/claude-desktop/admin-console see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up Restart, on inference-hooks.
* **Cowork.** The user edits the denied message if it is their latest one. The edit resends attached files, and **Restart from here** resends the whole message unchanged. If the content is in a file or an earlier message, the user selects …manage-claude/inference-hooks see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up Restart, on inference-hooks.