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[demo-mcp-2026-05] MCP stdio server hangs on Claude Desktop initialize

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After connecting an MCP server over stdio in Claude Desktop, the client hangs indefinitely on the initialize handshake. No error in the UI, no timeout, no rejection — the server is alive (logs flow) but Claude Desktop never receives a usable response. tools/list never resolves. Manually piping the server into a JSON-RPC test harness reveals stray non-JSON lines on stdout between protocol frames.

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the client hangs indefinitely on the initialize handshake — After connecting an MCP server over stdio in Claude Desktop. Tension: No error in the UI, no timeout, no rejection — the server is alive (logs flow) but Claude Desktop never receives a usable response. Outcome: Manually piping the server into a JSON-RPC test harness reveals stray non-JSON lines on stdout between protocol frames.

DESCRIBES_SOLUTIONSolution

stdout is the JSON-RPC protocol channel — On stdio transport. Tension: Anything written there that is not a JSON-RPC frame breaks the connection. Outcome: All logs now go to stderr (which Claude Desktop reads for diagnostics) and stdout stays pristine for the protocol.

IDENTIFIESRootCause

debug log lines interleaved with JSON-RPC frames — stdout from the server process directly with `mcp-server-foo | hexdump -C`. Tension: Claude Desktop's parser drops the entire connection silently when it hits a non-JSON line on the protocol channel. Outcome: the parser just stops feeding the response stream.

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