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The startup banner read the global `~/.pi/agent/mcp.json` and reported `Object.keys(cfg.mcpServers).length`, which overstates the MCP surface in two directions: * A server carrying `"disabled": true` connects to nothing, authenticates nothing and registers no tools, but still counted. * A server configured only in the project layer never appeared at all, because only the global file was parsed. `countEnabledMcpServers` reads both layers lowest-precedence first and counts the surviving entries that are not disabled, so `/mcp disable` in a project turns a globally configured server off in the banner as well. A layer that is absent or unparseable contributes nothing and no longer discards the layers that did parse — the old `catch` reset the whole count to 0. The count is a pure function of the two file bodies, with the reader injected the way `readGitBranch` takes its `execFile`, so the tests state the contract without touching a filesystem. Fixes Gentleman-Programming#979
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe startup banner now counts enabled MCP servers from global and project configuration layers. Project entries override global entries. Missing or invalid layers do not stop counting. Tests cover disabled servers, overrides, invalid data, and non-object configuration shapes. ChangesMCP banner count
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some users can see an incorrect MCP server total when using a custom Pi configuration directory or commented MCP configuration. The session behavior is unaffected, but the banner remains misaligned until these localized fixes are made. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@extensions/startup-banner.ts`:
- Around line 539-540: Update mcpConfigPaths and its mcpLayers usage so
countEnabledMcpServers reflects the adapter’s merged MCP configuration across
all six normal layers, including cross-layer overrides. Keep host-specific files
conditional, matching loadMcpConfig’s explicit-import or discovery behavior, and
remove the two-path-only assumption.
- Line 565: Update countEnabledMcpServers to skip entries before servers.set
when they are null, non-object values, or arrays, matching the filtering
performed by toServerEntries and isRecord. Preserve valid object entries, and
update the test expectations to return zero for null, primitive, and array
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…tries Both findings from the review on Gentleman-Programming#980, verified against the adapter's own source rather than taken from the summary. `pi-mcp-adapter@2.34.0`, `config.ts`: - `getConfigSources` orders six unconditional layers lowest to highest: `~/.config/mcp/mcp.json`, `~/.agents/mcp.json`, `~/.agents/mcp/mcp.json`, the Pi global file, `<cwd>/.mcp.json`, `<cwd>/.pi/mcp.json`. Reading only the two Pi-owned ones missed a server defined in a shared layer, and let an omitted higher-precedence `disabled` entry keep one in the count. - `toServerEntries` keeps an entry only when `isRecord` accepts it, so a null, a primitive or an array is not a server definition and never reaches the session. Storing `entry ?? {}` counted those as enabled. - `validateConfig` reads `raw.mcpServers ?? raw["mcp-servers"]`, so the alias spelling counts too. Four adapter sources are deliberately not mirrored, and the comment says so rather than leaving the gap silent: exclusive-config mode, opt-in host and ancestor discovery, and the package / agent-plugin / Claude-plugin configs. None can be resolved from a config path alone, and walking them would make the banner a second implementation of the loader rather than a reading of it. `isServerDisabled` in the adapter's `types.ts` is `definition?.disabled === true`, which is what this already used, so that half needed no change. Tests: the layer helper is keyed by layer name instead of destructuring two paths, four cells added (a shared-only layer is counted, a higher layer's `disabled` wins, the alias spelling, and the entry shapes), and the invalid-entry table now expects zero where it expected one. 12 pass. Five mutations, all killed.
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Both findings taken at The layers. So the order you listed is right. Four more adapter sources exist and I am deliberately not mirroring them, with a comment saying so rather than leaving the gap silent: exclusive-config mode, opt-in host discovery, ancestor discovery, and the package / agent-plugin / Claude-plugin configs. None of those can be resolved from a config path alone, and walking them would make the banner a second implementation of the loader instead of a reading of it. If the maintainer would rather have exactness there, the issue's own suggestion is better than either: consume the adapter's The entries. One more thing fell out of reading
Tests go from 8 to 12. The layer helper is keyed by layer name rather than destructuring the first two paths, and the invalid-entry table now expects zero where it expected one. Five mutations, all killed:
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In `@extensions/startup-banner.ts`:
- Line 557: Update the mcpConfigPaths entry near join to resolve the global MCP
configuration directory using PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR through the session loader’s
existing global-directory resolver, instead of the fixed PI_AGENT_DIR path; keep
the mcp.json filename unchanged.
- Line 586: Update the MCP layer parsing in countEnabledMcpServers to use the
adapter-compatible JSONC parser with trailing-comma support instead of
JSON.parse, preserving injected-reader behavior and adding coverage for comments
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| join(home, ".config", "mcp", "mcp.json"), | ||
| join(home, ".agents", "mcp.json"), | ||
| join(home, ".agents", "mcp", "mcp.json"), | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Resolve the Pi global MCP path from PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR.
mcpConfigPaths uses the fixed PI_AGENT_DIR path, which resolves to ~/.pi/agent. The session MCP loader reads $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/mcp.json when that variable is set. If it points to another directory, the banner reads a different file and can show an incorrect server count. Use the session loader’s global-directory resolver for this path.
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In `@extensions/startup-banner.ts` at line 557, Update the mcpConfigPaths entry
near join to resolve the global MCP configuration directory using
PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR through the session loader’s existing global-directory
resolver, instead of the fixed PI_AGENT_DIR path; keep the mcp.json filename
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| for (const path of mcpConfigPaths(cwd)) { | ||
| let entries: unknown; | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Parse MCP layers as JSONC.
The MCP adapter accepts comments and trailing commas, but countEnabledMcpServers uses JSON.parse. The parser throws, and the catch skips that layer. An enabled server in the layer is then missing from the banner count, while the session still loads it. Use the adapter-compatible JSONC parser with trailing-comma support, and add injected-reader coverage for both forms.
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countEnabledMcpServers to use the adapter-compatible JSONC parser with
trailing-comma support instead of JSON.parse, preserving injected-reader
behavior and adding coverage for comments and trailing commas.
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Fixes #979
The problem
The banner read the global config file and reported its key count:
That is not the number of servers the session has. It is wrong in two directions at once:
"disabled": trueconnects to nothing, authenticates nothing and registers no tools — and still counted;~/.pi/agent/mcp.jsonwas parsed.There was a third, quieter one: the
catchset the count to0. A single unreadable file discarded everything, rather than the layer it could not read.The fix
countEnabledMcpServers(cwd, read?)reads the layers lowest-precedence first, lets a later layer replace an earlier entry of the same name, and counts what is left that is not disabled. So/mcp disable <server>in a project turns a globally configured server off in the banner too, which is what the/mcppanel already shows.The count is a pure function of the two file bodies with the reader injected — the same shape
readGitBranchalready uses forexecFile— so the tests state the contract without touching a filesystem.Tests
Four cases in
tests/startup-banner.test.ts, each verified against a mutant:disabledflag againThe layer helper asserts the two config paths really are distinct before each case, so a collapsed path list fails loudly instead of measuring one file twice.
Full suite, same checkout with and without the change: 16 failures both ways, identical sets (
sdd-selection-transport, review-status and symlink candidate-view tests) — pre-existing here. Tests go 2360 → 2364, the four added ones passing.One thing I could not verify
The issue suggests consuming pi-mcp-adapter's
MCP_STATUS_EVENT/McpStatusSnapshot, which would be the better source. That adapter is not a dependency of this package and nothing in the tree references those symbols, so I could not build against them. This reads config instead, which keeps the change self-contained.For the same reason the project-layer path
<cwd>/.pi/mcp.jsonfollows the issue's description rather than something I could check here. It is a single array inmcpConfigPaths()if it needs correcting, and the tests address the layers through that function rather than hard-coding paths.Summary by CodeRabbit
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