diff --git a/semantica/mcp_server/__init__.py b/semantica/mcp_server/__init__.py
index 19fe0bf4..ebb4cc5c 100644
--- a/semantica/mcp_server/__init__.py
+++ b/semantica/mcp_server/__init__.py
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr, level=_log_level,
                     format="%(asctime)s [semantica-mcp] %(levelname)s %(message)s")
 log = logging.getLogger("semantica.mcp_server")
 
+# MCP stdio framing IS stdout: a progress bar or other console renderer writing
+# to stdout would interleave with the JSON-RPC stream and hang every client
+# (observed 2026-08-20: export_graph over MCP timed out at 300s while the same
+# call returned in <1s directly). Force the progress trackers off for this
+# process — stdout is not a console here.
+os.environ["SEMANTICA_DISABLE_PROGRESS"] = "1"
+
 # ── lazy graph session ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 _graph: Any = None
 
@@ -265,11 +272,16 @@ def _tool_export_graph(args: dict) -> dict:
     fmt = args.get("format", "json-ld")
     graph = _get_graph()
     try:
-        from semantica.export import RDFExporter, JSONExporter
+        from semantica.export import RDFExporter
+        # The exporters consume the canonical kg dict, not the ContextGraph
+        # object (regression: the old code passed the object straight through,
+        # so every branch failed — JSONExporter.export() with no file_path on
+        # the json branch, AttributeError on the RDF branches).
+        kg = graph.to_kg_dict()
         if fmt in ("turtle", "ttl", "nt", "xml", "json-ld"):
-            result = RDFExporter().export_to_rdf(graph, format=fmt)
+            result = RDFExporter().export_to_rdf(kg, format=fmt)
         else:
-            result = JSONExporter().export(graph)
+            result = json.dumps(kg, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
         return {"format": fmt, "data": result}
     except Exception as exc:
         return {"error": str(exc)}
diff --git a/tests/test_mcp_server_export_graph.py b/tests/test_mcp_server_export_graph.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca29f7c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_mcp_server_export_graph.py
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+"""Regression tests for the MCP export_graph tool (issue: all branches broken).
+
+The MCP server's export_graph tool failed on every format in 0.6.5/0.6.6:
+  - json:   JSONExporter().export(graph) called without the required file_path
+            argument -> TypeError, surfaced as {"error": ...}
+  - RDF:    RDFExporter().export_to_rdf(graph, ...) received the ContextGraph
+            object instead of the canonical kg dict -> AttributeError
+  - all:    the RDF path printed a rich progress bar to stdout, corrupting the
+            stdio JSON-RPC framing and hanging the client (observed: 300s
+            timeout over MCP, <1s directly).
+
+The fix: convert the graph with ContextGraph.to_kg_dict() before handing it to
+the exporters, serialize json to a string, and force SEMANTICA_DISABLE_PROGRESS
+for the server process (stdout is the protocol channel, not a console).
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+import unittest
+
+from semantica import mcp_server
+from semantica.context import ContextGraph
+
+
+def _graph_with_content() -> ContextGraph:
+    graph = ContextGraph(advanced_analytics=True)
+    graph.add_node("n1", node_type="entity", properties={"text": "hello"})
+    graph.add_node("n2", node_type="entity", properties={"text": "world"})
+    graph.add_edge("n1", "n2", "related_to")
+    return graph
+
+
+class TestExportGraphTool(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self._old_graph = mcp_server._graph
+        mcp_server._graph = _graph_with_content()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        mcp_server._graph = self._old_graph
+
+    def test_json_branch_returns_string_data_not_error(self):
+        result = mcp_server._tool_export_graph({"format": "json"})
+        self.assertNotIn("error", result)
+        self.assertEqual(result["format"], "json")
+        payload = json.loads(result["data"])
+        self.assertEqual(len(payload["entities"]), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(len(payload["relationships"]), 1)
+
+    def test_jsonld_branch_returns_string_data_not_error(self):
+        result = mcp_server._tool_export_graph({"format": "json-ld"})
+        self.assertNotIn("error", result)
+        self.assertEqual(result["format"], "json-ld")
+        self.assertIsInstance(result["data"], str)
+        self.assertGreater(len(result["data"]), 0)
+
+    def test_turtle_branch_returns_string_data_not_error(self):
+        result = mcp_server._tool_export_graph({"format": "turtle"})
+        self.assertNotIn("error", result)
+        self.assertIsInstance(result["data"], str)
+        self.assertIn("@prefix", result["data"])
+
+    def test_all_rdf_formats_succeed(self):
+        for fmt in ("turtle", "ttl", "nt", "xml", "json-ld"):
+            with self.subTest(fmt=fmt):
+                result = mcp_server._tool_export_graph({"format": fmt})
+                self.assertNotIn("error", result, fmt)
+                self.assertIsInstance(result["data"], str)
+
+    def test_progress_is_disabled_for_the_server_process(self):
+        self.assertEqual(os.environ.get("SEMANTICA_DISABLE_PROGRESS"), "1")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()