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All time, since Oct 5, including 3 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Shared, lazy stdio MCP servers

“In the Claude Code tab of the desktop app (macOS), every session starts its own copy of every stdio MCP server defined in the user config.”

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I want this: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/3785/file
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Share stdio MCP servers across sessions and start them mid-session. Each session starts its own copy of every configured stdio MCP server, about 1 GB per session, and none can be added after a session starts.

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Desktop MCP servers
Platforms
macOS

Original reports1, newest first

  1. Desktop/Claude Code: stdio MCP servers duplicated per session (~1 GB each) and can't be started mid-session#99831

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