VS Code Linked API Prompt/parameter_usage
How to: VS Code Linked API parameter_usage
Add Linked API to VS Code
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Open .vscode/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"servers": {
"linkedapi-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.linkedapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart VS Code.
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parameter_usage is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — VS Code will not call it for you.
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If it does not appear, check that Linked API is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.
Requires agent mode. MCP: Open User Configuration puts the same block in every workspace. VS Code docs
Set these first
Linked API will not start until these are set, so it never reaches VS Code.
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LINKED_API_TOKEN -
IDENTIFICATION_TOKEN
Same prompt, other clients
Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 5 November 2026.
A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this
is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are
stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.