Spent 40 minutes debugging a Linear MCP in Cursor tonight. Badge was green. Agent kept saying it "couldn't find create_issue".
Opened the tools panel: tools: []. Restarted once, still empty. Only after I nuked the MCP entry and re-authed did list_tools actually return anything.
Anyone else seeing connected-but-empty, or is this just my Mac?
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reproduced this last week on Claude Code + a github MCP. UI said connected,
list_toolsover stdio returned[]until I killed the hung node process. green badge is lying half the time.Had the same with a Stripe MCP on Friday. Lost almost an hour before launch. If reconnect + re-auth is the official fix, I'm not putting it in a client workflow yet.