System-reminder falsely claims Gmail/Google Calendar/Google Drive MCP connectors need authorization — never configured

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Every session, a system-reminder is injected claiming servers like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive "require authentication before their tools can be used," instructing the agent to tell the user to authorize them via claude.ai connector settings.

This is happening despite these connectors never having been configured — verified twice independently via claude.ai web settings (no connectors ever connected) and local MCP config (only two local MCP servers configured: Claude Code itself and one third-party server, no Google services at all). The reminder is not describing a real unauthenticated-but-configured state; it's referencing servers that don't exist in this account's configuration.

A related connector, Claude_Code_Remote, is also flagged as needing authorization in the same reminder despite already being authorized on the user's end.

This has recurred across many sessions over time, causing the agent to repeatedly (and incorrectly) tell the user to go authorize services they never set up, which is confusing and has become off-putting.

Expected: the reminder should only fire for MCP servers actually present in the user's configuration, and should reflect real auth state rather than stale/phantom entries.

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