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VS Code Commonlands Optics: M12 Lens and C-Mount Lens Finder + Field-of-View Calculator Prompt/select_lens_for_sensor_fov_working_distance

How to: VS Code Commonlands Optics: M12 Lens and C-Mount Lens Finder + Field-of-View Calculator select_lens_for_sensor_fov_working_distance

client:VS Code transport:streamable-http prompt:select_lens_for_sensor_fov_working_distance

Add Commonlands Optics: M12 Lens and C-Mount Lens Finder + Field-of-View Calculator to VS Code

  1. 01

    Open .vscode/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "servers": {
    "optics-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.commonlands.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart VS Code.

  2. 03

    select_lens_for_sensor_fov_working_distance is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — VS Code will not call it for you.

  3. 04

    If it does not appear, check that Commonlands Optics: M12 Lens and C-Mount Lens Finder + Field-of-View Calculator is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.

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

Same prompt, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 24 September 2026. A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.