{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"mcp-server-status-gains-a-set-aside-state","canonical_anchor":"mcp-server-status-gains-a-set-aside-state","heading":"MCP servers can show as set aside, plus a new PDF message","tier":"notice","area":"MCP","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/mcp-server-status-gains-a-set-aside-state","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### MCP servers can show as set aside, plus a new PDF message\n\nAn MCP server that is not connecting can now show a set-aside status, and a PDF too big to show whole tells Claude to read it by page\n\n**Unclear.** What set aside means for a server, and whether the PDF message can appear more often than before, is not clear.\n\n**What**\n\nMCP servers are outside programs that give Claude Code extra tools. A few related changes:\n\n- A server that is not connecting and has entries set aside now shows the status `set_aside` instead of another status.\n\n- Errors for a server that does not respond now also record whether it was suspended.\n\n- When a PDF \"cannot be shown whole in this session\", Claude is told to read it again a few pages at a time.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese refine how server status and large PDFs are reported.\n\n- Area: MCP\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}