footnote for VS Code

com.brick-byte/footnote

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client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install footnote in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "database-url",
      "description": "DATABASE_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "provenance-db",
      "description": "PROVENANCE_DB",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "provenance-actor",
      "description": "PROVENANCE_ACTOR",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "footnote": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@brick-byte/footnote"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "${input:database-url}",
        "PROVENANCE_DB": "${input:provenance-db}",
        "PROVENANCE_ACTOR": "${input:provenance-actor}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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