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gibil for VS Code

io.github.alexikm/gibil

Spawns an ephemeral Ubuntu VM with project clone, shell exec, file I/O, and auto-destroy on TTL.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install gibil in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "hetzner-api-token",
      "description": "HETZNER_API_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "vultr-api-key",
      "description": "VULTR_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "github-token",
      "description": "GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "gibil-api-key",
      "description": "GIBIL_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "gibil": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "gibil"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HETZNER_API_TOKEN": "${input:hetzner-api-token}",
        "VULTR_API_KEY": "${input:vultr-api-key}",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "${input:github-token}",
        "GIBIL_API_KEY": "${input:gibil-api-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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