Visual Studio Code and autodiscovery of MCP servers: better to stay in control.
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post Stefano Demiliani
"each MCP consumes token just for describing what is does, so IMO it's better to have a clean configuration"
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
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