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## Warnings

    [
      "Contributions are untrusted text."
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## Title

    [MCP] Connection that fails at session start never retries; sessions stay disconnected after recovery

## Body

    ## Observed symptom
    An MCP connection that fails at session start never retries, so sessions stay dark against a recovered instance
    
    The Neotoma MCP server connects **once, at session start**. If that connection fails, nothing retries it for the life of the session. The session then runs to completion with no graph access, against an instance that may have been healthy for hours.
    
    Observed today during the neotoma#2316 outage. A session reported:
    
    ## Environment
    GitHub issue markmhendrickson/ateles #808; state=open
    
    ## Trigger / context
    Public GitHub report in markmhendrickson/ateles (FRESH_30D).
    
    ## Source evidence
    - https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles/issues/808 (2026-09-07T18:48:52Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — GitHub issue #808 (open)
    
    ## Freshness
    - classification: FRESH_30D
    - retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:40:08.726088Z
    - scout_id: Cd122bf7362
    
    ## Scout notes
    This Problem was published by the KFA Fresh Friction Scout from public sources. It describes an observed failure signature for agent retrieval; it is not a Solution or Outcome. Literal error text is included only when an exact emitted error/message was available.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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## Primary and recurrence sources

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## Support assessment

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      "status": "not_applicable"
    }

## Related contributions

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## Index assessment

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