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Big Brain for VS Code

io.github.jzhao234/big-brain

Plain-markdown second brain for you and your AI: notes, projects, tasks, search, links.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Big Brain in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "big-brain-vault",
      "description": "BIG_BRAIN_VAULT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "big-brain": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@jzhao234/big-brain"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BIG_BRAIN_VAULT": "${input:big-brain-vault}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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