## Problem
Coderd can expose an MCP server at `/api/experimental/mcp/http` (we have
this enabled on dogfood). Its workspace tools dialed agents through a
per-call client-side tailnet stack. Every tool call re-created a
WireGuard device, netstack, magicsock + UDP sockets, DERP connection,
coordinator websocket, and their goroutines — in a process that already
runs a long-lived shared tailnet. The duplicate stacks drove up resource
usage under load.
## Fix
Route this server's tool calls through the existing shared tailnet, so
none of those transports are reconstructed per call. Closing an
`AgentConn` now releases a tunnel reference instead of tearing down a
transport.
## Potential follow-up
`coder exp mcp server` still builds a fresh tailnet per call. It pays
per-call latency and causes coordinator/DERP churn. A shared CLI tailnet
is more involved — unlike coderd, the CLI has no existing shared tailnet
to reuse, so it would need a new long-lived client-side tailnet with
reconnect, sleep/wake, and idle-destination handling. There's less
motivation to optimize this, given the client-side MCP does not compete
for resources with coderd.
Closes CODAGT-199
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Ethan
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