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Drive devices and APIs from their W3C Thing Description. You gate every operation.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install thingctx in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "thingctx-policy",
      "description": "THINGCTX_POLICY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "thingctx-approve-when",
      "description": "THINGCTX_APPROVE_WHEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "thingctx-fs-root",
      "description": "THINGCTX_FS_ROOT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "thingctx": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "thingctx"
      ],
      "env": {
        "THINGCTX_POLICY": "${input:thingctx-policy}",
        "THINGCTX_APPROVE_WHEN": "${input:thingctx-approve-when}",
        "THINGCTX_FS_ROOT": "${input:thingctx-fs-root}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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