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Copilot AI commented Jan 26, 2026

Scout workflow failing due to MCP Gateway hanging indefinitely during context7 server initialization. Gateway successfully launches arxiv but blocks waiting for context7 response, never starts HTTP server, health check times out after 120s.

Changes

  • Removed context7 MCP server import from scout workflow
  • Updated prompt documentation to remove Context7 from available research tools list
  • Recompiled workflow to regenerate lock file without context7 container and configuration

Technical Details

Gateway logs show successful initialization of other servers but hang at:

[2026-01-26T02:32:37Z] [INFO] [backend] Starting MCP server: context7
--- End of mcp-gateway.log ---

No timeout exists for individual MCP server launches. The context7 container starts but never completes MCP protocol handshake, blocking all subsequent initialization.

Follow-up

  • mcp-inspector workflow also imports context7 and has similar failures
  • Root cause investigation: why context7 hangs, add per-server launch timeout to gateway
Original prompt

Reference: https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/21344340195/job/61428924101

Debug scout


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Co-authored-by: pelikhan <4175913+pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Debug scout functionality issues Remove context7 from scout workflow to fix gateway timeout Jan 26, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from pelikhan January 26, 2026 03:20
@pelikhan pelikhan marked this pull request as ready for review January 26, 2026 03:21
@pelikhan pelikhan merged commit 4ac2f85 into main Jan 26, 2026
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@pelikhan pelikhan deleted the copilot/debug-scout branch January 26, 2026 03:22
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