contextburn for VS Code

ai.arsentev/contextburn

Run efficiency for coding agents: share of paid tokens that became output, not context re-reading.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install contextburn in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "contextburn": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "contextburn"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Requires agent mode. MCP: Open User Configuration puts the same block in every workspace. VS Code docs