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# Visual Studio Code and autodiscovery of MCP servers: better to stay in control.

[Read the post](https://demiliani.com/2025/08/22/visual-studio-code-and-autodiscovery-of-mcp-servers-better-to-stay-in-control/) · Stefano Demiliani (Stefano Demiliani, MVP) · 2025-08-22 · 267 words · tier community · **flagged** (a review found a problem)

> Summary withheld: an Opus review found that the machine-written summary did not match the post. Read the original post.

## Quotes

- "each MCP consumes token just for describing what is does, so IMO it's better to have a clean configuration" (Clarifies the performance impact of having unnecessary MCP servers installed and configured)
- "Microsoft Visual Studio Code Team is thinking to set the autodiscovery feature of MCP servers to DISABLE by default in future versions" (Indicates Microsoft recognizes the issue and plans to change the default behavior)

## Context

- Features: MCP server autodiscovery, MCP configuration import, VS Code settings, agent performance optimization

Source: Stefano Demiliani, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.