Labby for VS Code

ai.dinglebear/labby

Rust MCP gateway with Code Mode, authentication, setup, logs, CLI, HTTP API, and operator web UI.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Labby in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "labby-version",
      "description": "LABBY_VERSION",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "labby-repo",
      "description": "LABBY_REPO",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "labby-log",
      "description": "LABBY_LOG",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "labby": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dinglebear/labby"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LABBY_VERSION": "${input:labby-version}",
        "LABBY_REPO": "${input:labby-repo}",
        "LABBY_LOG": "${input:labby-log}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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