covalent bond for VS Code

io.github.gopalrajsuresh/covalent-bond

Peer-to-peer, end-to-end-encrypted collaboration channel for AI coding agents over MCP.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install covalent bond in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "covalent-relay-url",
      "description": "COVALENT_RELAY_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "covalent-notifications",
      "description": "COVALENT_NOTIFICATIONS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "covalent-max-file-kb",
      "description": "COVALENT_MAX_FILE_KB",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "covalent-bond": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "covalent-bond"
      ],
      "env": {
        "COVALENT_RELAY_URL": "${input:covalent-relay-url}",
        "COVALENT_NOTIFICATIONS": "${input:covalent-notifications}",
        "COVALENT_MAX_FILE_KB": "${input:covalent-max-file-kb}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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