fix(mcp): cancel timed-out coroutines, check session inside async callback

[aaronlab]

Summary

• mcp_tool: cancel the in-flight Future when _run_on_mcp_loop times out, preventing zombie coroutines from accumulating on the MCP event loop
• mcp_tool: move session-is-None check from caller thread into async _call() to eliminate TOCTOU race during reconnection

Details

Coroutine leak on timeout (HIGH)

_run_on_mcp_loop submits a coroutine to the MCP event loop via asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe and waits with future.result(timeout=...). On timeout, the TimeoutError propagates but the coroutine continues running on the event loop. Since MCP sessions are per-server (one session handles all tool calls), a backlog of zombie coroutines can congest the transport — no new calls complete because the session is processing replies for timed-out calls.

Fix: future.cancel() in except handler before re-raising.

Session TOCTOU race (MEDIUM)

_make_tool_handler checks server.session on the caller thread, then the actual call_tool runs later on the MCP event loop thread. If the server reconnects between these (setting session = None in the finally block of the reconnection loop), server.session is None and call_tool raises AttributeError. Same pattern in all 5 handler factories.

Fix: move the session is None check inside the async _call() coroutine.

Test plan

• Verify timed-out MCP calls don't leave zombie coroutines
• Verify session disconnect during call returns error JSON (not crash)
• Run pytest tests/ -q

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[teknium1]

Thanks for identifying two real MCP lifecycle concerns.

Problems

• The timeout-cancellation portion is already implemented on current main: tools/mcp_tool.py:3668 cancels the future at deadline, with cancellation coverage in tests/tools/test_mcp_tool.py:888-917 (introduced by 80548f9a4fd1f33edd67c9ae415176a6b3666afc).
• The session-race portion needs a current-main adaptation. The primary handler still prechecks server.session at tools/mcp_tool.py:3900 and later dereferences it at :3943; utility handlers retain the same pattern, e.g. :4050 and :4058. The submitted diff only changes the primary tool handler despite the body describing five factories.
• No regression test exercises session loss between handler entry and MCP-loop execution.

Suggested changes

• Salvage the session guard after the RPC lock is acquired, apply the invariant across all five handler factories, and add a deterministic interleaving test. Preserve the current reconnect/readiness/circuit-breaker flow.

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