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NYC Checkbook for VS Code

io.github.betanyc/nyc-checkbook-mcp

NYC Checkbook data: city spending, contracts, budget, payroll, and revenue from Checkbook NYC

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install NYC Checkbook in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "checkbook-enable-smart-search",
      "description": "CHECKBOOK_ENABLE_SMART_SEARCH",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "nyc-checkbook-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nyc-checkbook-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CHECKBOOK_ENABLE_SMART_SEARCH": "${input:checkbook-enable-smart-search}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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