I Set a 500ms Timeout and Got 28 Hours

I had an MCP server that occasionally hung, so I gave it a short leash: { "mcpServers": { "flaky": { "type": "http", "url": "...", "timeout": 500 } } } timeout is in milliseconds, so that reads as half a second. Values below 1000 are ignored. The call falls through to MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT, and if that is unset, to its default — about 28 hours. I had...