Codex reproduces the MCP failure and locates VS Code's hidden MCP logs
dfinke · x · 2026-10-08
Continuing the thread: Codex next made a change that broke things and confirmed the breakage — a real repro, not a guess. It then went hunting for where VS Code logs MCP activity, a location even the author didn't know, and found it.
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