fhirhydrant for VS Code
io.github.faulkj/fhirhydrant
FHIR MCP server with SMART Backend Services, response compaction, FHIRPath, and guarded writes.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:npm
Install fhirhydrant in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "mcp-transport",
"description": "MCP_TRANSPORT",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-auth",
"description": "FHIR_AUTH",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-server-url",
"description": "FHIR_SERVER_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-token-url",
"description": "FHIR_TOKEN_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-client-id",
"description": "FHIR_CLIENT_ID",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-active-key",
"description": "FHIR_ACTIVE_KEY",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-jwks-url",
"description": "FHIR_JWKS_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "fhir-version",
"description": "FHIR_VERSION",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"fhirhydrant": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"fhirhydrant"
],
"env": {
"MCP_TRANSPORT": "${input:mcp-transport}",
"FHIR_AUTH": "${input:fhir-auth}",
"FHIR_SERVER_URL": "${input:fhir-server-url}",
"FHIR_TOKEN_URL": "${input:fhir-token-url}",
"FHIR_CLIENT_ID": "${input:fhir-client-id}",
"FHIR_ACTIVE_KEY": "${input:fhir-active-key}",
"FHIR_JWKS_URL": "${input:fhir-jwks-url}",
"FHIR_VERSION": "${input:fhir-version}"
}
}
}
}
VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs