Separate "Auto-run MCP" Option from "Enable auto-run mode"

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This “MCP Tools Protection” and/or relevant settings are now hidden, but if they were previously manually changed by a user, they may cause a very frustrating lingering issue leading MCP auto-run not working at all without manual confirmations to everything.

In my case, I managed to fix it the hard way:

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…