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VS Code ignored my MCP config for an hour and never said a word

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I spent an hour last week convinced my MCP server was down. It wasn't. VS Code had read my config file, found nothing it recognised, and said nothing at all. The whole bug is one word. The two shapes Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Desktop put servers under a top-level mcpServers key: { "mcpServers" :…

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  1. 2026-09-16 12:14 · DEV Community — AI
    VS Code ignored my MCP config for an hour and never said a word

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