tinysearch for VS Code
io.github.marcellm01/tinysearch
Self-hosted web research for MCP agents.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:oci
Install tinysearch in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "mcp-transport",
"description": "MCP_TRANSPORT",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tinysearch-config-path",
"description": "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "searxng-url",
"description": "SEARXNG_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tinysearch-embedding-backend",
"description": "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tinysearch-embedding-model",
"description": "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"tinysearch": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0"
],
"env": {
"MCP_TRANSPORT": "${input:mcp-transport}",
"TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "${input:tinysearch-config-path}",
"SEARXNG_URL": "${input:searxng-url}",
"TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "${input:tinysearch-embedding-backend}",
"TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "${input:tinysearch-embedding-model}"
}
}
}
}
VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs