## Summary The plugin MCP tool-listing test could hide MCP startup failures by polling `ListMcpTools` until its own 30s deadline. If the plugin MCP server startup had already failed or timed out, the session-owned MCP manager would keep returning an empty tool list, so CI only reported `discovered tools: []` instead of the startup state that mattered. This makes the test synchronize on `McpStartupComplete` for the sample plugin MCP server before asserting listed tools, and gives the Bazel-launched test server a larger startup window. ## Notes Confidence is about 80%. The source path strongly supports the RCA: a failed MCP startup is represented as an empty tool list through `ListMcpTools`, so the old polling contract could not distinguish "not ready yet" from "startup already failed." I could not retrieve the CI execution-log artifact to confirm the exact hidden startup error, but the observed Ubuntu Bazel failure matches this path: repeated `ListMcpTools` responses with no tools until the test-local timeout fired. I think this is the right solution because it keeps plugin behavior unchanged and fixes only the test contract. Future startup failures should now report the `McpStartupComplete` failure/cancellation instead of timing out on an empty tool snapshot. This test was introduced in https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/12864.
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