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MCP configuration: Show where the server was configured

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Testing #335626

There are various ways to install an MCP server, as a casual user of MCP, I don't know them all. Could the MCP configuration page show how the server was configured and link to that file/place?
- `.vscode/mcp.json`: link to open the file
- `~/Library/Application Support/Code - Insiders/User/mcp.json`: link to open the file
- via a plugin, link to that plugin
- via a global setting e.g. ` "github.copilot.chat.githubMcpServer.readonly": true,`: link to to that settings
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