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preflight for VS Code

io.github.newrelic-experimental/preflight

New Relic MCP server for observing AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install preflight in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "new-relic-license-key",
      "description": "NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "new-relic-account-id",
      "description": "NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "preflight": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@newrelic/preflight"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY": "${input:new-relic-license-key}",
        "NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID": "${input:new-relic-account-id}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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