{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"analysis-only-side-query-gets-mcpclients","canonical_anchor":"analysis-only-side-query-gets-mcpclients","heading":"An analysis-only background request now receives the MCP server connections","tier":"internal","area":"Background Requests","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/analysis-only-side-query-gets-mcpclients","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### An analysis-only background request now receives the MCP server connections\n\nOne analysis-only background request now gets the session's MCP server connections as well as its tools\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which background request this is or what it decides for the reader.\n\n**What**\n\nOne of Claude Code's background requests to the model is now marked as analysis only, and it now receives the session's connections to MCP servers (add-ons that provide extra tools). Before, it received only the list of tools and some extra instructions.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis may let that background check see the tools that MCP servers provide.\n\n- Area: Background Requests\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}