MCP's not working in VS Code Extension or CLI since somewhere in November

What version of Codex is running?

0.79.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

GPT-5.0, GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.2 issue is sometime old already

What platform is your computer?

MacOS

What issue are you seeing?

Check -> https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/6465#issuecomment-3719534473

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What steps can reproduce the bug?

{
"servers": {
"laravel-boost": {
"command": "php",
"args": [
"artisan",
"boost:mcp"
]
},
"herd": {
"command": "php",
"args": [
"/Applications/Herd.app/Contents/Resources/herd-mcp.phar"
],
"env": {
"SITE_PATH": "/Users/brunogomes/Documents/Herd/potencia-iberica"
}
},
"playwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"@playwright/mcp@latest"
]
},
"sequential-thinking": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking"
]
},
"chrome-devtools": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"chrome-devtools-mcp@latest",
"--channel=canary",
"--headless=true",
"--isolated=true"
]
}
}
}

What is the expected behavior?

To work flawlessly detecting the .vscode/mcp.json using the VSCode extension

Additional information

I tried to install through Node and Brew, but the issue happens with any of the Cli installations