Claude Desktop Has No In-Session Way to Reconnect Crashed MCP Servers
When an MCP server dies or hangs inside Claude Desktop, users have no way to reconnect it without quitting the entire app — which destroys all open sessions. The CLI has a /mcp slash command for per-server reconnect, but it is not exposed in the Desktop interface. Auto-reconnect for stdio MCP servers is also broken, leaving users with no graceful recovery path.
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