NYC Council for VS Code

io.github.betanyc/nyc-council-mcp

NYC Council legislation: bills, hearings, votes and members, from a local index or live Legistar

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install NYC Council in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "legistar-token",
      "description": "LEGISTAR_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "legistar-db-path",
      "description": "LEGISTAR_DB_PATH",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "nyc-council-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nyc-council-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LEGISTAR_TOKEN": "${input:legistar-token}",
        "LEGISTAR_DB_PATH": "${input:legistar-db-path}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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