MCP Servers not detected in .vscode\mcp.json
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Oct 29, 2025 by Zokor Closed Oct 29, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of the VS Code extension are you using?
Version 0.4.31
What subscription do you have?
Pro
Which IDE are you using?
VS Code, Version: 1.105.1
What platform is your computer?
MacOS
What issue are you seeing?
I'm with Codex CLI installed through Node and it's version 0.50.
<img width="580" height="147" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/555dc74b-5ada-4111-82ae-7ca36592e0a2" />
<img width="585" height="86" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5c607666-c4a5-4a18-9ef3-e449f80590eb" />
What steps can reproduce the bug?
It's happening in all my VS Code instances
What is the expected behavior?
It should detect the mcps in the mcp json
Additional information
_No response_
4 Comments
Please refer to this documentation for details about how to configure MCP servers for use with codex.
@etraut-openai it was working fine last week, it stopped working, i don't know if it was from the update to the 0.50 or the extensions updates. We should have this standarized, not having a config.toml and claude another thing, and others their thing. Makes sense if .vscode is detecting and Copilot chat is also detecting that Codex should also detect it.
In the config.toml is also not detecting:
<img width="1985" height="548" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1c4c40f3-46d9-41e1-9d79-c74ef986f94b" />
Maybe you were using the copilot agent by mistake but Codex has never supported
.vscode/mcp.jsonFrom the top of your screenshot, it definitely does see the stripe mcp, you just need to log in with the codex CLI using
codex mcp login stripeWe're going to add UI for MCP management in the extension but don't have it yet.