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Queue Pilot for VS Code

io.github.larscowe/queue-pilot

MCP server for RabbitMQ and Kafka message inspection with JSON Schema validation

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Queue Pilot in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "rabbitmq-url",
      "description": "RABBITMQ_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "rabbitmq-user",
      "description": "RABBITMQ_USER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "rabbitmq-pass",
      "description": "RABBITMQ_PASS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kafka-brokers",
      "description": "KAFKA_BROKERS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kafka-client-id",
      "description": "KAFKA_CLIENT_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kafka-sasl-mechanism",
      "description": "KAFKA_SASL_MECHANISM",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kafka-sasl-username",
      "description": "KAFKA_SASL_USERNAME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kafka-sasl-password",
      "description": "KAFKA_SASL_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "queue-pilot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "queue-pilot"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RABBITMQ_URL": "${input:rabbitmq-url}",
        "RABBITMQ_USER": "${input:rabbitmq-user}",
        "RABBITMQ_PASS": "${input:rabbitmq-pass}",
        "KAFKA_BROKERS": "${input:kafka-brokers}",
        "KAFKA_CLIENT_ID": "${input:kafka-client-id}",
        "KAFKA_SASL_MECHANISM": "${input:kafka-sasl-mechanism}",
        "KAFKA_SASL_USERNAME": "${input:kafka-sasl-username}",
        "KAFKA_SASL_PASSWORD": "${input:kafka-sasl-password}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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