[Feature Request] Make MCP tool timeouts configurable in Claude Desktop

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Aug 6, 2025 by ashwinraghav Closed Aug 6, 2025

Environment

  • Platform (select one):
  • [ ] Anthropic API
  • [ ] AWS Bedrock
  • [ ] Google Vertex AI
  • [x] Other: Claude Desktop
  • Operating System: macOS Sequoia 15.5

Bug Description

MCP tool timeouts should be configurable (see https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/424#issuecomment-2877535598). Like Claude Code, Claude Desktop would greatly benefit from honoring MCP_TIMEOUT and MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT in its configuration.

As it stands, long-running operations frequently fail with one of the following errors:
Error executing code: MCP error -32000: Connection closed
No result received from client-side tool execution.

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