my-cool-proxy MCP Server
An MCP server gateway that minimizes context usage via progressive Lua-driven discovery 🌙
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Published as @karashiiro/my-cool-proxy on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
17 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.
Most discussed
Dead sessions get cleaned up too slowly
See title; this is particularly an issue when using stdio MCP servers or sampling.
- stdio MCP servers aren't aggressively tidied up (this is a combination of long session lifetimes and server state isolation concerns preventing us from reusing processes).
- In the sampling shim, if the configured ACP agent itself uses the gateway, that can create many stale sessions very quickly, particularly in the case of sampling-with-tools.
The first issue on its own is relatively minor and shouldn't scal
Read the thread · 2026-02-11 · closed · 3 comments
Singleton MCP servers
Support marking servers as singletons, meaning that a single process/server session can be safely used across multiple gateway sessions. Reduces memory overhead and session startup latency.
Read the thread · 2026-02-11 · open · 2 comments
Decide what to do when sampling is only partially supported by a client
Do we shim our more complete support in this case, even though the client's native integration might have a better UX? Do we add even more config for this?
Read the thread · 2026-02-11 · closed · 2 comments
Server is not leveraged effectively by Claude Code and Claude Desktop anymore
Claude Code and Claude Desktop appear to no longer inject the instructions field into the context, which we use to steer the agent to use the gateway correctly. This is probably related to them both enabling tool search by default now. We should move that information into the execute tool description to handle this; upstream servers should then get indexed by tool search appropriately.
Read the thread · 2026-04-29 · closed · 1 comment
Protocol-level errors crash the gateway
[11:06:53.576] ERROR (25587): Error calling github.search_code:
err: {
"type": "McpError",
"message": "MCP error -32603: failed to search code with query '\"did not call\" tool retry discord': GET https://api.github.com/search/code?order=desc&page=1&per_page=5&q=%22did+not+call%22+tool+retry+discord&sort=indexed: 403 API rate limit exceeded for user ID 131398524. If you reach out to GitHub Support for help, please include the request ID F05B:2D2DE7:2399BBB:2468E00:69EE543D an
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/92) · 2026-04-26 · closed · 1 comment
### Most recent
### Append notice in tool result after restoring a session
Our own session state is maintained but upstream sessions may not be, particularly for stdio servers.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/82) · 2026-03-12 · open · 0 comments
### Upstream server versions are prefixed with "v" even if they aren't numeric
When connecting to the GitHub MCP server, the gateway logs this:
Preloaded info for server 'github': github-mcp-server vgithub-mcp-server/remote-... (54 tools)
It expects the version to always be semver-like when that isn't always going to be the case. We should probably just drop the "v" uniformly and let servers put whatever they want there.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/53) · 2026-02-17 · closed · 0 comments
### Emulate permissions over elicitation
See title; this is important for people who don't filter high-risk tools out of servers. Requires shimming elicitation for clients that don't support it as well.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/49) · 2026-02-15 · open · 0 comments
### Declare tool annotations
See title; we can't really do this for the `execute` tool, but we can do this for all the others. Most tools are read-only and idempotent.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/38) · 2026-02-12 · closed · 1 comment
### Support client-hosted tasks
This one is kind of dumb and I'm not sure if it's possible because nothing uses this and clients can't optionally use tasks according to server capabilities. That is, if we broadcast support for client-hosted tasks, most servers using non-task elicitation and sampling will just straight-up break, so we need to somehow know if the server will understand client-hosted tasks without them calling us first.
It'll only work well if we can always broadcast support for client-hosted tasks and servers a
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/31) · 2026-02-11 · open · 0 comments
### Get on the MCP Clients list
No idea if they'll accept this but it's something to try after implementing all of the remaining shims - it'd be funny if they allowed it and I have no other reason for trying
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/30) · 2026-02-11 · open · 0 comments
### Validate and document execute tool timeouts
I'm not actually sure if it has any business implementing timeouts as that's entirely the responsibility of the upstream servers, but if we do have timeouts in the execute tool (I forget) and want to keep them, we should document them clearly in the user docs.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/karashiiro/my-cool-proxy/issues/28) · 2026-02-11 · closed · 1 comment
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