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Project Brain for VS Code

io.github.gentleelephant/project-brain

Read-only source search and retrieval across configured GitHub repositories

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Project Brain in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "project-brain-repo-list",
      "description": "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "project-brain-state-dir",
      "description": "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pb-github-token",
      "description": "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pb-fetch-ttl",
      "description": "PB_FETCH_TTL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "project-brain": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST": "${input:project-brain-repo-list}",
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR": "${input:project-brain-state-dir}",
        "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN": "${input:pb-github-token}",
        "PB_FETCH_TTL": "${input:pb-fetch-ttl}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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