How to Debug MCP Server Connection Issues with Claude
When you need to debug MCP server connection issues, start with the failure classes that account for the vast majority of cases:
When you need to debug MCP server connection issues, start with the failure classes that account for the vast majority of cases:
Few things are more frustrating than asking Claude Code to work on a file it insists does not exist. If Claude Code is not finding your project files, you are not doing anything fundamentally wrong —
When an agent fails locally, you can usually see it instantly in your terminal output. In production, failures are often silent, expensive, and unpredictable. The non-deterministic nature of LLMs mean
You built an AI agent that worked flawlessly in demos. The stakeholders were impressed, the prototype handled every test case, and production deployment seemed like a formality. Then reality hit.