MCP tool-result widgets render as empty boxes (Claude Code Desktop)

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Activity 3 comments · opened Jun 5, 2026

What happens

In Claude Code Desktop, when an MCP tool returns a rich "widget" result, the app renders a labelled but completely empty container instead of the content. Observed with the Atlassian MCP connector: tool results show as blank bordered boxes captioned Widget from Atlassian editJiraIssue and Rendering widget transitionJiraIssue, with no content inside.

The underlying tool call succeeds (the Jira issue is edited / transitioned correctly) — only the UI rendering is blank.

Expected

Render the tool-result content inside the widget, or fall back to the standard collapsible tool-result view. Never an empty box.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Connect an MCP server that returns rich widget content (reproduced with the Atlassian connector).
  2. Have the agent call a tool such as editJiraIssue or transitionJiraIssue.
  3. Observe the result blocks render as empty Widget from … <tool> / Rendering widget <tool> boxes.

Impact

Cosmetic but confusing — a successful tool call looks like it failed or returned nothing. Likely affects any MCP tool returning the rich-widget content type, not just Atlassian.

Environment

  • Claude Code Desktop
  • macOS 26.5 (build 25F71)
  • MCP server: Atlassian connector

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3 Comments

jcavalieri · 2 months ago

<img width="524" height="391" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/29efde64-3f7a-43c9-b124-a664868decf2" />

Adding a screenshot. Also, this issue appears to affect scrolling. The rendering jumps when there are multiple empty widgets.

hastarin · 1 month ago

I get this on Windows 11 as well.

<img width="1474" height="410" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6dcadf4d-6145-451a-88b7-e17bddf0fba2" />

locationtba · 1 month ago

seeing this for a different connector/mcp