Kagan for VS Code

io.github.kagan-sh/kagan

AI-powered Kanban TUI for autonomous development workflows with agent orchestration

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Kagan in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kagan-openai-api-key",
      "description": "KAGAN_OPENAI_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kagan-anthropic-api-key",
      "description": "KAGAN_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kagan-db-path",
      "description": "KAGAN_DB_PATH",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kagan": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "kagan"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KAGAN_OPENAI_API_KEY": "${input:kagan-openai-api-key}",
        "KAGAN_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "${input:kagan-anthropic-api-key}",
        "KAGAN_DB_PATH": "${input:kagan-db-path}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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