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HYTHE — coordination bus + shared truth for AI agent fleets — self-hosted MCP server + stdio bridge.

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Install hythe in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "hythe-agent-id",
      "description": "HYTHE_AGENT_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "hythe-agent-key-file",
      "description": "HYTHE_AGENT_KEY_FILE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "hythe-agent-auth-mode",
      "description": "HYTHE_AGENT_AUTH_MODE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "api-key",
      "description": "API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mcp-host",
      "description": "MCP_HOST",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mcp-port",
      "description": "MCP_PORT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "hythe": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@hythe/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HYTHE_AGENT_ID": "${input:hythe-agent-id}",
        "HYTHE_AGENT_KEY_FILE": "${input:hythe-agent-key-file}",
        "HYTHE_AGENT_AUTH_MODE": "${input:hythe-agent-auth-mode}",
        "API_KEY": "${input:api-key}",
        "MCP_HOST": "${input:mcp-host}",
        "MCP_PORT": "${input:mcp-port}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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