Why isn't my AI assistant seeing the social.plus MCP server?

Q: Why isn't my AI assistant seeing the social.plus MCP server?

Most common causes: missed client restart, VS Code below 1.99, missing Copilot extension, URL typo, or JSON pasted in the wrong place in the config file.

The most common causes are: forgetting to restart the AI client after editing the config (required in every client), running VS Code older than version 1.99 (the minimum for MCP), the GitHub Copilot extension not installed in VS Code, a typo in the URL (must be exactly https://learn.social.plus/mcp), or pasting the JSON in the wrong location inside the config file. The social.plus MCP server itself includes a setup-validator skill that your AI assistant can use to walk through the diagnosis once any MCP connection is live.