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[Bug] ZCode spawning MCP in background

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priority: P2 status: 待评估 type: Bug
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  • 我已阅读 CONTRIBUTING.md / I've read CONTRIBUTING.md.
问题类别 · Category

性能 · Performance

涉及的 Agent 框架 · Agent framework

ZCode Agent(自研)

严重程度 · Severity

影响体验 · Major (功能可用但体验受损 / works but degraded)

复现频率 · Reproducibility

偶现 · Sometimes

问题描述 · Description
What Is Causing the High Usage?
1. Massive Multiplication of MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers

ZCode (PID 46592, 43416, etc.) and the agent sessions have spawned duplicate suites of MCP servers for each open window or session. Each session runs its own copies of:

• chrome-devtools-mcp
• @playwright/mcp / playwright-mcp
• mcp-jenkins (via uv/python)
• mcp-search-console (via uv/python)
• analytics-mcp (via uv/python)
• @z_ai/mcp-server
• reddit-mcp-server
• ssh-mcp
• server-perplexity-ask
• mcp-server-sequential-thinking

Because multiple ZCode/agent sessions were opened, these servers accumulated to over 130 background tool instances, remaining resident in memory.

复现步骤 · Steps to reproduce

Open many zcode and some chat no longer use

期望表现 · Expected behavior

expect within 1 zcode should have 1 set mcp connections only. or at least for those opened but idle chat (during no quote), those mcp can be shutdown after certain period.

实际表现 · Actual behavior

wasting performance

ZCode 版本 · ZCode version

latest

设备 / 系统 / 浏览器 · Device / OS / Browser

Asus ProArt P16, Window

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Research direction

Review the ZCode MCP spawning and session-lifecycle entry points, then reproduce the problem by opening many ZCode sessions and leaving chats idle. Use process counts to verify whether duplicate MCP servers remain resident. Done means one MCP set per ZCode session, or idle chats shutting down their MCP servers after a defined period.

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Assessment

Tech stack
playwright, python
Domain
ai, devtools, performance
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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