Better Unraid MCP for VS Code

io.github.mswdev/better-unraid-mcp

Monitor and manage an Unraid server from any MCP client: array, Docker, VMs, ZFS, logs, and UPS.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Better Unraid MCP in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "unraid-api-url",
      "description": "UNRAID_API_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "unraid-api-key",
      "description": "UNRAID_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "unraid-ssh-host",
      "description": "UNRAID_SSH_HOST",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "unraid-ssh-password",
      "description": "UNRAID_SSH_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mcp-read-only",
      "description": "MCP_READ_ONLY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "better-unraid-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "better-unraid-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNRAID_API_URL": "${input:unraid-api-url}",
        "UNRAID_API_KEY": "${input:unraid-api-key}",
        "UNRAID_SSH_HOST": "${input:unraid-ssh-host}",
        "UNRAID_SSH_PASSWORD": "${input:unraid-ssh-password}",
        "MCP_READ_ONLY": "${input:mcp-read-only}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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