What
When you approve servers from a project's .mcp.json file, Claude Code adds them to enabledMcpjsonServers in your local settings. Before this fix, the new names were merged into a copy of the settings taken earlier. They are now merged into the settings as they stand at the moment of writing.
Why
If other approvals were saved in between, they are no longer overwritten. Every server you approved stays approved.
Names in the bundleenabledMcpjsonServers
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.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up enabledMcpjsonServers, on Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP.
`claude mcp list` and `claude mcp get` read `.mcp.json` approvals only from settings files that aren't checked into the repository until you trust the workspace by running `claude` in it and accepting the workspace trust dialog. A cloned r…mcp see the edit
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up enabledMcpjsonServers, on Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Added MCP server checks to claude plugin validate: it reports .mcp.json entries that would be silently dropped at load, undeclared…