feat(mcp): per-server startup timeout #3182
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- Add timeout_ms to McpServerConfig with 10s default when unset - Use per-server timeout for initialize and tools/list; aggregate startup/list errors with captured output and drop failing servers from registry - Introduce ManagedClient to store client and timeout; rename LIST_TOOLS_TIMEOUT to DEFAULT_MCP_SERVER_TIMEOUT - mcp-client: pipe and retain last 20 lines of STDOUT/STDERR; add output_snippet API for diagnostics - Update docs to document timeout_ms with example and options table
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I'm going to let @jif-oai take a first crack at this, but two things off the top of my head:
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Seeing timeouts on certain, slow mcp server starting up when codex is invoked. Before this change, the timeout was a hard-coded 10s. Need the ability to define arbitrary timeouts on a per-server basis.
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