MCP servers¶
- Full management — add, remove, and inspect MCP servers via
claude mcp(scopes local/user/project, transports stdio/http/sse, env vars and headers) - Three states, all visible — ✔ connected,
!needs authentication, ✘ failed to connect or timed out. A server that cannot connect is the one you most need to see, so it is listed with its error rather than omitted - Status footer — connected servers shown live on the main screen
- Tool documentation — analyze any server's tools and write the docs into the global
~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
Each analyzed server gets its own sentinel-delimited section in the global file, so re-running the analysis updates only that server — see Global CLAUDE.md.
MCP servers also appear in the context weight audit, because their tool definitions ride in the model's context on every turn.