Kaiten for VS Code

io.github.evvfebruary/kaiten-mcp

Manage Kaiten spaces, boards, cards, comments, and tags with compact MCP responses.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Kaiten in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kaiten-api-token",
      "description": "KAITEN_API_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kaiten-workspace-slug",
      "description": "KAITEN_WORKSPACE_SLUG",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kaiten-base-url",
      "description": "KAITEN_BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kaiten-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "kaiten-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KAITEN_API_TOKEN": "${input:kaiten-api-token}",
        "KAITEN_WORKSPACE_SLUG": "${input:kaiten-workspace-slug}",
        "KAITEN_BASE_URL": "${input:kaiten-base-url}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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