{"version":"2.1.305","anchor":"mcp-question-pause-timer-behind-tengu-rosy-finch-fallback","canonical_anchor":"mcp-question-pause-timer-behind-tengu-rosy-finch-fallback","heading":"MCP tool timeouts can pause while a question waits for your answer","tier":"soon","area":"MCP","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305\/e\/mcp-question-pause-timer-behind-tengu-rosy-finch-fallback","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305","markdown":"### MCP tool timeouts can pause while a question waits for your answer\n\nAn MCP tool call's timeout can now pause while it waits on a question to you, but only if this is switched on remotely\n\n**What**\n\nMCP servers are add-on tools that Claude Code connects to. Each call to one of their tools has a timeout, a limit on how long Claude Code waits before giving up.\n\nClaude Code can now pause that timeout while a question is open. When the question closes, the time spent waiting is added back to the timeout, up to 230 seconds, and the timer starts again. Claude Code records how each pause ended.\n\nThe pause applies only when:\n\n- the tool call has no explicit timeout of 1 second or more\n\n- the remote setting `tengu_rosy_finch` is switched on, which it is not unless Anthropic's server turns it on\n\n**Why**\n\nA long MCP tool call that stops to ask you something would no longer time out just because you took a while to answer.\n\n- Flag `tengu_rosy_finch`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.305; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: off) 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: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}