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LayoutBridge for Adobe InDesign® for VS Code

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layoutbridge-spm – MCP server for Adobe® InDesign®: pages, frames, text, styles, tables, export

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install LayoutBridge for Adobe InDesign® in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "layoutbridge-spm-license-key",
      "description": "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_LICENSE_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "layoutbridge-spm-license-file",
      "description": "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_LICENSE_FILE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "layoutbridge-spm-log-level",
      "description": "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_LOG_LEVEL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "layoutbridge-spm-instance-name",
      "description": "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_INSTANCE_NAME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "layoutbridge-spm-config",
      "description": "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_CONFIG",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "layoutbridge-spm": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "layoutbridge-spm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_LICENSE_KEY": "${input:layoutbridge-spm-license-key}",
        "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_LICENSE_FILE": "${input:layoutbridge-spm-license-file}",
        "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_LOG_LEVEL": "${input:layoutbridge-spm-log-level}",
        "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_INSTANCE_NAME": "${input:layoutbridge-spm-instance-name}",
        "LAYOUTBRIDGE_SPM_CONFIG": "${input:layoutbridge-spm-config}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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