A desktop assistant connected through MCP starts surfacing stale local resources after the file system changes. How would you fix it?

Instruction: Describe how you would respond when local resources change underneath an MCP-connected assistant.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would respond when local resources change underneath an MCP-connected assistant.

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I would fix the resource discovery and invalidation path. If the assistant keeps surfacing stale local resources, then the MCP integration or host is treating local state as more static than it really is.

That usually means better change detection, cache invalidation, and a way for...

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