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datanika mcp for VS Code

io.datanika/datanika-mcp

Read-only-by-default MCP for Datanika: browse data, run dbt transforms, manage ELT pipelines.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install datanika mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "datanika-url",
      "description": "DATANIKA_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "datanika-api-key",
      "description": "DATANIKA_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "datanika-allow-write",
      "description": "DATANIKA_ALLOW_WRITE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "datanika-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "datanika-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATANIKA_URL": "${input:datanika-url}",
        "DATANIKA_API_KEY": "${input:datanika-api-key}",
        "DATANIKA_ALLOW_WRITE": "${input:datanika-allow-write}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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