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Filesystem MCP for VS Code

io.github.j0hanz/filesystem-mcp

Secure filesystem MCP server for reading, writing, searching, diffing, and patching files.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Filesystem MCP in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "fs-allowed-dirs",
      "description": "FS_ALLOWED_DIRS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "filesystem-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@j0hanz/filesystem-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FS_ALLOWED_DIRS": "${input:fs-allowed-dirs}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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