MCP Orchestration: Managing Multiple Servers

Once a client connects to more than a handful of MCP servers, orchestration — not any single server's implementation — becomes the hard problem.

Tool Namespace Collisions

Two servers exposing a tool named search will confuse the model. Prefix tool names by server (github_search, jira_search) at the client's aggregation layer.

Partial Failure Handling

If one of five connected servers goes down, the orchestrator should degrade gracefully — dropping that server's tools from the list rather than failing the whole session.

Community Patterns

Share the orchestration layer you've built (or the client feature you wish existed) in the comments — this is one of the fastest-moving areas of the ecosystem.