MCP status detection failures

Now it’s confusing whether the MCP starts properly or not, it’s always waiting.
Even if it is available, it only lasts for a few seconds, and then it goes into a waiting state.

However, the Claude 4 Sonnet can call these MCP tools as normal again.

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Hey, everything is fine on my end. Have you also tried restarting Cursor?

Yes, I have tried to restart, but the problem still exists.

I was just coming to ask about this.
Most MCP servers always show orange “loading tools”, but the tools appear when expanded.

There’s nothing in the documentation, no tooltip for the status, AI chat is clueless, etc.


(it’s not context7 specific)

Turning off/on sometimes makes them green, but then back to orange the next time I check.

Hey, can you check the logs? To do this, open the Output panel by going to the View -> Output menu, and in the dropdown menu, select the MCP Logs.

You can try upgrading to 1.1.3 and I’m currently seeing that the issue is mostly fixed with this version.
Sometimes it is still yellow, but after a while, it turns green.

I have many servers, but all are disabled.

If I enable one, e.g. context7 it will show it’s starting and finds the tools, but then floods the logs with an info+warning message for every other server.

(partial log, showing info+error for one disabled server, and finding tools for a different disabled server)

[info] user-sequential-thinking: Handling ListOfferings action
[info] user-sequential-thinking: Listing offerings
[info] user-sequential-thinking: Connected to stdio server, fetching offerings
[info] listOfferings: Found 1 tools
[info] user-sequential-thinking: Found 1 tools
[info] user-mcp-reasoner: Handling ListOfferings action
[error] user-mcp-reasoner: No server info found
(...repeat info/error for EVERY server)

None of these are enabled (including sequential-thinking) so I don’t see why it should be doing this.
[Win10-64, 1.1.3]