Altium MCP bridge: running eda-agent relaunch from a terminal without the MCP server's EDA_AGENT_WORKSPACE overwrites a machine-global pointer file with the default folder, so the restarted Altium script serves that folder while the MCP server keeps sending requests to the custom one; then the diagnosis calls it a dead loop when the script is healthy, just somewhere else. The agent's context about where the design lives got silently swapped during recovery.
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.