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[demo-mcp-2026-05] Tail MCP server logs from Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop's UI shows "MCP server crashed" with no detail when an MCP server fails to start or panics mid-tool-call. The client-side log is empty. Without server logs visible somewhere, debugging is guessing.

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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.

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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.

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