MCP - Cowork has a bug where duplicate MCP server

Cowork has a bug where duplicate MCP server processes don't share memory, breaking Anthropic's pdf-viewer implementation.

Updated: 6/4/2026
Cowork has a strange bug that spawns the MCP server twice — one process for the iframe (the UI element), one for the agent control. They don't share memory which breaks Anthropics pdf-viewer implementation. Source: https://x.com/nfxDevelopment/status/2057644981586968879

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