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Install cairn in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "cairn-key-path",
      "description": "CAIRN_KEY_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "cairn-api-base-url",
      "description": "CAIRN_API_BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "cairn": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@bborota/cairn-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CAIRN_KEY_PATH": "${input:cairn-key-path}",
        "CAIRN_API_BASE_URL": "${input:cairn-api-base-url}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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