On Windows, when a bare-name MCP server command (e.g. codesys-mcp-sp21-plus)
falls back to the .cmd candidate, the probe sets shell:true to work around
Node 18.20+ CVE-2024-27980. However, passing an args array alongside
shell:true causes Node to concatenate the tokens without quoting (DEP0190),
so an arg containing a space (e.g. --codesys-path "C:\Program Files\...") is
re-split by cmd.exe at every space boundary. The child process receives a
truncated path, fails to launch, and the probe declares the server unavailable,
falsely blocking every MCP tool call to that server.
Fix: add a quoteWin() helper that double-quotes any token containing whitespace
or cmd metacharacters. In the useShell branch, build a single properly-quoted
command line string and pass it as the sole argument to spawn() with no separate
args array. The else branch (shell:false, all non-.cmd commands) is unchanged.
Regression test added: on Windows, creates a .cmd shim that echoes its first
positional argument to stderr, probes it with a space-containing path arg, and
asserts the probe succeeds and the arg was not split at the space boundary.
Co-authored-by: Karstein Phobic Nyvold Kvistad <karstein.kvistad@maritimerobotics.com>