MCP tools allowlist to autorun

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The MCP tools allow list exists in recent cursor versions, but it broke in a horrible way for users who had manually enabled stuff like “MCP Tools Protection”, which is no longer exposed in the UI.

For those affected, there is a fix whichI just posted here:

MCP Allowlist doesn't work, also can't be edited

@lironle thanks for this comment I also had suspected some previously visible manually enabled cursor setting to be a likely root cause of the problem, potentially “MCP Tools Protection” and related YOLO/allowlist stuff which I had altered in the past. After several cursor upgrades and profanity and lost productivity I decided to look deeper and to resolve this bs issue. There was a lot of wasted hours and head banging and begging codex to help me out… and eventually I managed to get th…