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DeepSeek Web Search for VS Code

io.github.matthewyin/deepseek-mcp

MCP server for DeepSeek tools: scored web search, page-to-Markdown fetch, OCR, ASR and TTS

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install DeepSeek Web Search in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "deepseek-api-key",
      "description": "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "deepseek-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-deepseek-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "${input:deepseek-api-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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