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MongoDB / WiredTiger Corruption / Error: A Cautionary Tale of Adding MCP Servers to LibreChat

How a simple MCP config change crashed my entire LibreChat setup - twice

Sometimes the most frustrating bugs are the ones that punch you in the face twice before you learn to duck. I ran into a somewhat mysterious issue while trying to integrate the Pal MCP server (formerly known as Zen MCP server) into my local LibreChat install on my Macbook. What should have been a straightforward configuration change ended up corrupting MongoDB and taking down my entire local LLM infrastructure. Twice.