Responses API MCP Timeouts
OpenAI Developer Community
February 18, 2026
Hi all,
I’m using the responses API along with the snowflake managed MCP server for a cortex agent. Sometimes the model will ask the agent for a complex query which could take time to process >60 seconds etc.
It seems that OpenAI times out long running mcp tool calls and I cannot see where this is configurable.
I understand the better approach is probably to design a tool to start a request and another to poll the agent but I don’t think snowflake currently supports this and if I can avoid it I would rather not build my own. Any help is much appreciated.
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