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Manage Your MCP Server Portal Sessions Without Leaving the Client!

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Hi everyone, it's me, Shii-chan! Today I found a small but genuinely handy update in the MCP world, so let me tell you about it.

Cloudflare Changelog developers.cloudflare.com

What was announced?

From Cloudflare's Changelog: MCP server portals now support in-session management. You can manage your connections to the upstream MCP servers protected by a portal without ever leaving your MCP client. Toggling servers on or off and logging back in all happen right inside the client.

The story so far

Until now, picking a different set of servers or reconnecting with different permissions was a bit of a chore. If you wanted to change your setup mid-session, you had to stop and go back to configuration.

What changes

You can now return to the server selection page any time. Ask your AI agent something like "take me back to the server selection page," and the portal hands back an authorization URL via MCP elicitation that you open in your browser.

From that page you can do two things:

  • Enable or disable servers. Disabling a server removes its tools from the active session, which reduces context window usage.
  • Log out and reauthenticate. Change which data a server can access, or reconnect with different permissions.

You can even toggle a server inline by asking your AI agent directly, like "enable the wiki server."

Dive Deep

The link you get back is an authorization URL shaped like this:

https://{subdomain}.{domain}/authorize?elicitationId={ELICITATION_ID}

There is also an automatic prompt: when an admin adds a new server to the portal, connected users are asked to authorize it. To use this automatic prompt, you need managed OAuth. For the full steps, see Manage portal sessions.

Wrap-up

  • MCP server portals now offer in-session management you can use without leaving the client
  • Toggle servers on/off to trim tools and cut context usage
  • Log out and reauthenticate to change access scope or permissions
  • Drive it with a single line to your AI agent, like "take me back to the server selection page"
  • Automatic authorization prompts require managed OAuth

If you manage a bunch of MCP servers behind a Cloudflare Access portal, this one quietly makes your day better!

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