AI Coding AssistantsMCP Server Not Working: A Troubleshooting Guide
Why -32000 Connection closed means four different things, the corrupt-stdout failure the health check calls ✔ Connected, and a committed script that separates them.
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AI Coding AssistantsWhy -32000 Connection closed means four different things, the corrupt-stdout failure the health check calls ✔ Connected, and a committed script that separates them.
AI Coding AssistantsThree surfaces, one reference: shell subcommands, CLI flags, and in-session slash commands, reconciled against what the binary actually accepts.
AI Coding AssistantsTwo real subagents committed to this repo, a zero-cost discovery probe, and the debug-log evidence for three failure modes the session never shows you.
AI Coding AssistantsWe audited 27 articles against 14 written rules. Rules backed by the build had zero violations. Rules that existed only as sentences had 89.
AI Coding AssistantsThe message names your subscription, but Anthropic lists auto mode as available on all plans. What actually gates it, and why plan mode can trigger it spuriously.
AI Coding AssistantsThe three places plan mode spends tokens, the classifier round-trip nobody counts, and the decision rule for when planning is cheaper than the rework it prevents.
AI Coding AssistantsThe complete set of plan mode controls on every Claude Code surface, which ones persist, and why /visual-plan does not belong on the list.
AI Coding AssistantsThere are six permission modes, not two, and the two people compare most are the two that compose. What each mode actually approves, measured against a real allowlist.