diff --git a/changelog.d/fixes/7701-mcp-undici-copy.md b/changelog.d/fixes/7701-mcp-undici-copy.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d05d9cf96
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+++ b/changelog.d/fixes/7701-mcp-undici-copy.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- fix(mcp): copy undici into dist/node_modules to prevent hollow-package shadowing crash (#7701)
diff --git a/scripts/build/assembleStandalone.mjs b/scripts/build/assembleStandalone.mjs
index bdaed25aea..0a083d81d4 100644
--- a/scripts/build/assembleStandalone.mjs
+++ b/scripts/build/assembleStandalone.mjs
@@ -188,6 +188,17 @@ const EXTRA_MODULE_ENTRIES = [
     src: ["node_modules", "playwright-core"],
     dest: ["node_modules", "playwright-core"],
   },
+  {
+    // esbuild's `--packages=external` leaves `undici` as a static top-level ESM
+    // import in the compiled MCP server bundle (dist/open-sse/mcp-server/server.js),
+    // resolved at module-link time. Next.js's standalone output-file tracer (nft)
+    // sometimes emits a hollow dist/node_modules/undici/ (package.json only), which
+    // SHADOWS the fully-populated sibling node_modules/undici and crashes
+    // `omniroute --mcp` at startup. See #7701.
+    label: "undici (MCP server static import — #7701)",
+    src: ["node_modules", "undici"],
+    dest: ["node_modules", "undici"],
+  },
   {
     label: "sqlite-vec wrapper (vector memory - loaded at runtime via createRequire)",
     src: ["node_modules", "sqlite-vec"],
diff --git a/tests/unit/mcp-server-hollow-dist-deps.test.ts b/tests/unit/mcp-server-hollow-dist-deps.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..62b284e453
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+++ b/tests/unit/mcp-server-hollow-dist-deps.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
+
+// Regression guard for issue #7701.
+//
+// dist/open-sse/mcp-server/server.js is produced by:
+//   esbuild open-sse/mcp-server/server.ts --bundle --platform=node
+//     --packages=external --format=esm --outfile=dist/open-sse/mcp-server/server.js
+// (scripts/build/prepublish.ts, Step 8.5)
+//
+// `--packages=external` means every bare-specifier `import ... from "pkg"` in the
+// MCP server's source graph survives UNBUNDLED in the compiled output. Node's ESM
+// loader resolves every one of those STATIC top-level imports at *module-link
+// time* -- before any of the MCP server's own code (including its startup log
+// lines) executes.
+//
+// Separately, `dist/node_modules/` is populated by Next.js's standalone output
+// file tracer (nft), which walks the compiled Next.js app's require graph. nft is
+// known (and separately documented in this repo -- see the #6559 comment in
+// src/shared/utils/rateLimiter.ts, plus the sqlite-vec/#3066, tls-options/#5452,
+// head-response-guard/#7065, and @swc/helpers precedents in assembleStandalone.mjs)
+// to sometimes emit a HOLLOW `dist/node_modules/<pkg>/` directory containing only
+// package.json, no code. Node's module resolution stops at the FIRST
+// node_modules/<pkg> directory found while walking up from the importer -- so a
+// hollow dist/node_modules/<pkg> SHADOWS the fully-populated sibling
+// node_modules/<pkg> that npm installed for the published package, and the MCP
+// server crashes with:
+//   Error: Cannot find package '.../dist/node_modules/undici/index.js'
+//
+// The project's existing mitigation for this bug class is an explicit copy
+// guarantee (EXTRA_MODULE_ENTRIES / NATIVE_ASSET_ENTRIES in assembleStandalone.mjs)
+// that force-overwrites whatever nft did with a full copy from the sibling
+// node_modules. This test proves that `undici` -- a real, static, top-level
+// external import of the actual esbuild-compiled MCP server bundle -- has NO such
+// guarantee, so a hollow nft trace for it is packaging-fatal.
+
+const ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "../..");
+const ASSEMBLE = path.join(ROOT, "scripts", "build", "assembleStandalone.mjs");
+
+const NODE_BUILTINS = new Set([
+  "assert", "async_hooks", "buffer", "child_process", "crypto", "dns", "events",
+  "fs", "http", "https", "module", "net", "os", "path", "stream", "tls", "url",
+  "util", "worker_threads", "zlib",
+]);
+
+function isBuiltin(pkg: string): boolean {
+  return pkg.startsWith("node:") || NODE_BUILTINS.has(pkg);
+}
+
+/** Bare-specifier packages that survive as STATIC top-level imports in the real,
+ * esbuild-compiled (--packages=external) MCP server bundle. */
+function mcpBundleStaticExternalImports(): string[] {
+  const outFile = path.join(
+    os.tmpdir(),
+    `omniroute-mcp-server-probe-${process.pid}-${Date.now()}.js`
+  );
+  try {
+    execFileSync(
+      "npx",
+      [
+        "esbuild", "open-sse/mcp-server/server.ts", "--bundle", "--platform=node",
+        "--packages=external", "--format=esm", `--outfile=${outFile}`,
+      ],
+      { cwd: ROOT, stdio: ["ignore", "ignore", "inherit"] }
+    );
+    const src = fs.readFileSync(outFile, "utf8");
+    const re = /^import\s+(?:[^;]*?\s+from\s+)?["']([^."][^"']*)["'];?$/gm;
+    const pkgs = new Set<string>();
+    let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+    while ((m = re.exec(src))) {
+      const spec = m[1];
+      const name = spec.startsWith("@") ? spec.split("/").slice(0, 2).join("/") : spec.split("/")[0];
+      if (!isBuiltin(name)) pkgs.add(name);
+    }
+    return [...pkgs].sort();
+  } finally {
+    fs.rmSync(outFile, { force: true });
+  }
+}
+
+function explicitlyGuaranteedPackages(): Set<string> {
+  const text = fs.readFileSync(ASSEMBLE, "utf8");
+  const entries = [...text.matchAll(/src:\s*\[([^\]]+)\]/gs)];
+  const guaranteed = new Set<string>();
+  for (const [, segList] of entries) {
+    const segments = segList.split(",").map((s) => s.trim().replace(/^"|"$/g, "")).filter(Boolean);
+    if (segments[0] !== "node_modules") continue;
+    const pkg = segments[1]?.startsWith("@") ? `${segments[1]}/${segments[2]}` : segments[1];
+    if (pkg) guaranteed.add(pkg);
+  }
+  return guaranteed;
+}
+
+test("sanity: MCP server bundle probe finds real external packages (parser didn't break)", () => {
+  const pkgs = mcpBundleStaticExternalImports();
+  assert.ok(pkgs.length > 5, `expected several external packages, got: ${pkgs.join(", ")}`);
+  assert.ok(pkgs.includes("better-sqlite3"), `missing better-sqlite3: ${pkgs.join(", ")}`);
+});
+
+test("undici (a static top-level external import of the real MCP server bundle) has an explicit dist/node_modules copy guarantee (#7701)", () => {
+  const staticExternals = mcpBundleStaticExternalImports();
+  assert.ok(
+    staticExternals.includes("undici"),
+    `expected undici among the MCP bundle's static external imports (sanity check on the repro itself): ${staticExternals.join(", ")}`
+  );
+  const guaranteed = explicitlyGuaranteedPackages();
+  assert.ok(guaranteed.has("undici"), "undici is statically imported at module-link time by the esbuild-compiled MCP server bundle but has NO explicit copy entry in EXTRA_MODULE_ENTRIES (scripts/build/assembleStandalone.mjs) ... (issue #7701).");
+});