MCPManager is not initialised when only MCP's with startup = false

[res-tractive]

What happened?

What

The MCPManager is not initialised if you have for example only one MCP with startup = false configured.
This leads to longer loading the chat menu, after loading showing empty models and throwing an error in the logs. (see provided logs)

Workaround:

Set startup = true for at least one MCP to initialise the MCPManager.

Version Information

LibreChat v0.8.0-rc2

ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat-rag-api-dev-lite latest 2f812738600a 36 hours ago 1.67GB
ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat-dev-api latest 0c2392a8b93e 37 hours ago 1.26GB

Steps to Reproduce

1. Having only MCP Servers configured with startup = false

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome

Relevant log output

2025-08-19 06:27:00 info: Skipping MCP server 'atlassian-jira-confluence' due to startup: false
2025-08-19 06:27:00 info: [MCP] No MCP servers to initialize (all skipped or none configured)
2025-08-19 06:27:15 error: Error in startup config MCPManager has not been initialized.

Screenshots

The issue leads to longer loading and then displaying no models anymore.

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[danny-avila]

Resolving this here: #9149