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engram for VS Code

io.github.nickcirv/engram

Ranked local code-graph context for AI coding agents. Intercepts reads + greps. Apache-2.0.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install engram in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-api-token",
      "description": "ENGRAM_API_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-mistake-guard",
      "description": "ENGRAM_MISTAKE_GUARD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-anthropic-memory-path",
      "description": "ENGRAM_ANTHROPIC_MEMORY_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-mcp-config-path",
      "description": "ENGRAM_MCP_CONFIG_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-no-update-check",
      "description": "ENGRAM_NO_UPDATE_CHECK",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "engram": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "engramx"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ENGRAM_API_TOKEN": "${input:engram-api-token}",
        "ENGRAM_MISTAKE_GUARD": "${input:engram-mistake-guard}",
        "ENGRAM_ANTHROPIC_MEMORY_PATH": "${input:engram-anthropic-memory-path}",
        "ENGRAM_MCP_CONFIG_PATH": "${input:engram-mcp-config-path}",
        "ENGRAM_NO_UPDATE_CHECK": "${input:engram-no-update-check}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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