Critical Fixes

MCP Protocol Fix

• Removed process.stdin.setEncoding that was breaking MCP STDIO protocol
  • Was causing 60-second initialization timeouts in Claude Desktop
  • MCP SDK handles its own encoding internally
  • Result: Tools now load correctly in Claude Desktop ?

UX Improvements

• Removed all emoji characters from Golden Path prompts
  • Fixes corrupted character display in Claude Desktop
  • Cleaner, more readable prompt text

Technical Details

Root Cause: The UTF-8 encoding fix interfered with MCP binary protocol. The MCP SDK expects to handle stdin/stdout encoding itself for proper JSON-RPC framing.

Testing

• ? Server starts successfully
• ? MCP initialize handshake completes
• ? Tools load in Claude Desktop
• ? Prompts display without corrupted characters