Tool Search Proxy for VS Code

io.github.datolabs-io/mcp-toolsearch-proxy

Lets a model search and call a large MCP tool catalog through six tools instead of loading it

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Tool Search Proxy in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "toolsearch-upstream",
      "description": "TOOLSEARCH_UPSTREAM",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "toolsearch-embedder",
      "description": "TOOLSEARCH_EMBEDDER",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp-toolsearch-proxy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/datolabs-io/mcp-toolsearch-proxy:0.10.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TOOLSEARCH_UPSTREAM": "${input:toolsearch-upstream}",
        "TOOLSEARCH_EMBEDDER": "${input:toolsearch-embedder}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

Tool Search Proxy in other clients

Tool Search Proxy MCP server