Connect to MCP servers and discover their tools in parallel - #993
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Included review availability: 0 reviews are currently available. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 2 reviews per hour. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughMCP tool retrieval now supports server selection. MCP configuration validation detects duplicate names and canonical endpoints. Admin and plugin discovery run concurrently. User connections use coordinated retries, timeouts, refreshes, and cleanup. ChangesMCP discovery and tool selection
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR parallelizes MCP connection and tool discovery while preserving ordering, eligibility, caching, OAuth behavior, and duplicate handling; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant ClientManager
participant UserClients
participant MCPServers
Caller->>ClientManager: GetToolsForUser(selection)
ClientManager->>UserClients: Resolve eligible servers
UserClients->>MCPServers: Connect eligible servers concurrently
MCPServers-->>UserClients: Sessions and errors
UserClients-->>ClientManager: Cached tools and connection results
ClientManager-->>Caller: Selected tools and errors
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mcpserver/plugin_handlers.go (1)
231-233: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoffThread a request-scoped
ctxintodiscoverProxyToolsinstead ofcontext.Background().The coding guidelines forbid
context.Background()shortcuts in production code, because the request-scoped context is what correlates spans.discoverProxyToolsstarts a new root context, so the discovery calls detach from the caller's trace and cancellation. Add actx context.Contextfirst parameter tobuildServer,addProxyTools, anddiscoverProxyTools, then derive the timeout from it.As per coding guidelines: "Thread
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In `@mcp/user_clients.go`:
- Around line 331-342: Update pluginConnectTask to create a disarmable timeout
context for the dial and pass it through NewPluginClient, bounding Connect and
the initial tools/list sequence; cancel the timeout only after connection
succeeds so the established session retains its Connect context. Do not use
deferred cancellation in pluginConnectTask, and preserve the existing
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In `@mcpserver/plugin_handlers.go`:
- Around line 231-233: Thread a request-scoped ctx context.Context as the first
parameter through buildServer, addProxyTools, and discoverProxyTools, updating
all callers accordingly; derive the discovery timeout context from ctx instead
of context.Background(), preserving the existing timeout and cancellation
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In `@config/mcp_duplicates.go`:
- Line 63: Update CanonicalMCPEndpointURL and its URL validation flow so
malformed query strings cannot canonicalize to the same duplicate key as a URL
without those query parameters; preserve the raw query when canonicalizing or
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https://host/mcp?x=1;y=2 versus https://host/mcp.
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In `@mcp/plugin_roundtripper.go`:
- Around line 59-65: Update the PluginHTTP result handoff to use an unbuffered
result channel plus a caller-completion channel, ensuring a late response body
is closed deterministically if the request context completes before PluginHTTP
returns. Preserve immediate cleanup for canceled requests and add a test
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- Around line 52-53: Update the goroutine in the RoundTrip flow that invokes
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When an already-stored configuration contains an enabled server and a disabled entry with the same name or canonical URL, this loop counts both as conflicting. resolveEligibleServers then excludes the enabled server at runtime, and admin discovery reports it as broken, even though the disabled entry cannot create a client or cache-key collision. This is especially relevant because validation is deliberately bypassed for configurations already in the database; compute runtime conflicts among enabled entries only, while retaining stricter validation separately if desired.
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I think this is a great idea as it would be awesome to speed up the loading time of the tools lists, but I’m worried about scalability particularly around reconnect stampedes. Mechanisms for single-user limits are a great start, but I think we need to consider cross-user limits on a per node basis as well. We theoretically could have had a similar problem prior to this with a very large instance - but now we’re widening the amount of reconnects by n times, it could get messy
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Summary
Parallelizes MCP connection and tool discovery while bounding reconnect load and preserving deterministic ordering, partial success, OAuth behavior, caching, and proxy collision rules.
sync.WaitGroup.Goloops with buffered-channel semaphores, capped at 32 tasks independently for runtime connection, admin discovery, and external proxy discovery. There is no generic concurrency package or executor abstraction.ClientManageradmission cap of 32 complete remote/plugin connection sequences across all users on a node. Embedded in-memory connections do not consume permits.ReInit. Tool-policy,ExposeExternal, and idle-timeout-only changes keep exact client/session pointers; URL, name, headers, credentials, enabled state, registration, plugin path, and embedded server changes invalidate only affected origins.The embedded server is reused across plugin configuration changes because its constructor does not depend on plugin config. Failed construction remains retryable, and the concrete pointer is retained until success to avoid a typed-nil interface being mistaken for a live server.
Measured effect
Tested end-to-end against four real
@modelcontextprotocol/server-everythinginstances over streamable HTTP, each behind a TCP relay adding 250ms per client chunk:The implementation discovers all 56 remote tools plus 119 embedded tools.
mcp_cold_discovery_before_after.log
Cold discovery walkthrough
Stored-conflict walkthrough
Validation
-race.gotestsum -- -race ./...: 4,619 Go tests passed, 130 eval-only tests skipped.go vet ./...and repositorygolangci-lint: clean.Release Note
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