{"version":"2.1.310","anchor":"mcp-elicitation-brake-refuse-questions-after-repeated-unans","canonical_anchor":"mcp-elicitation-brake-refuse-questions-after-repeated-unans","heading":"Non-interactive runs can stop passing on MCP questions nobody answers","tier":"notice","area":"Headless Mode","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.310\/e\/mcp-elicitation-brake-refuse-questions-after-repeated-unans","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.310","markdown":"### Non-interactive runs can stop passing on MCP questions nobody answers\n\nIn print mode, Claude Code can refuse further MCP server questions after a set number go unanswered in a row; off unless set remotely\n\n**What**\n\nAn MCP server is an outside program that gives Claude Code extra tools. Such a server can ask the user a question while it works. In print mode, where Claude Code runs a single prompt without an interactive screen, Claude Code now counts how many of these questions in a row ended without an answer.\n\n- Once that count reaches a limit, Claude Code declines further questions with the reason \"unanswered\".\n\n- Answering a question resets the count to zero.\n\n- Claude Code logs a note the first time it refuses in a session.\n\nThe limit comes from a number set remotely. When no number is sent it falls back to 0, which turns the limit off.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf you run Claude Code in print mode where nobody is there to answer MCP questions, it can stop being asked them again and again. This only happens once a positive limit is set.\n\n- Flag `tengu_linear_quail`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.310; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) 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: Headless Mode\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}