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Install Calibre-Web in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "calibre-web-url",
      "description": "CALIBRE_WEB_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "calibre-web-username",
      "description": "CALIBRE_WEB_USERNAME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "calibre-web-password",
      "description": "CALIBRE_WEB_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "calibre-web-insecure-tls",
      "description": "CALIBRE_WEB_INSECURE_TLS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "calibre-web-allow-tools",
      "description": "CALIBRE_WEB_ALLOW_TOOLS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "calibre-web-deny-tools",
      "description": "CALIBRE_WEB_DENY_TOOLS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "calibreweb-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "calibreweb-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CALIBRE_WEB_URL": "${input:calibre-web-url}",
        "CALIBRE_WEB_USERNAME": "${input:calibre-web-username}",
        "CALIBRE_WEB_PASSWORD": "${input:calibre-web-password}",
        "CALIBRE_WEB_INSECURE_TLS": "${input:calibre-web-insecure-tls}",
        "CALIBRE_WEB_ALLOW_TOOLS": "${input:calibre-web-allow-tools}",
        "CALIBRE_WEB_DENY_TOOLS": "${input:calibre-web-deny-tools}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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