{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"mcp-connect-retries-once-without-elicitation-formurl-when-a","canonical_anchor":"mcp-connect-retries-once-without-elicitation-formurl-when-a","heading":"MCP servers on older Java SDKs now connect after one automatic retry","tier":"notice","area":"MCP","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/mcp-connect-retries-once-without-elicitation-formurl-when-a","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### MCP servers on older Java SDKs now connect after one automatic retry\n\nIf a Java MCP SDK 0.17.0-or-older server rejects Claude Code's elicitation support, Claude Code reconnects once without the parts it rejects\n\n**Unclear.** It is not confirmed that the retry removes exactly the form and link parts, or whether the advice text is shown to users in every case.\n\n**What**\n\nMCP servers are add-on programs that give Claude Code extra tools. When connecting, Claude Code tells the server it supports elicitation, a way for the server to ask you for input, including by form or by link. Servers built on Java MCP SDK 0.17.0 or older reject the form and link parts and refuse to connect.\n\nClaude Code now recognises that rejection and reconnects once without advertising form and link elicitation. Previously the connection simply failed. This applies only when Claude Code was advertising link (URL) elicitation.\n\nIf the connection still fails in a way that matches those older SDKs, the error is replaced with advice: set `\"bareElicitationCapability\": true` for that server, or upgrade to Java MCP SDK 0.17.1 or later (Spring AI 1.0.7+ or 1.1.6+).\n\n**Why**\n\nMCP servers built with older Java MCP SDK or Spring AI versions used to fail to connect at all. Most should now connect without any change on your side.\n\n- Flag `tengu_mcp_url_elicitation`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.283; 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- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}