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studydiff for VS Code

io.github.nickjlamb/studydiff

Explain why two scientific papers disagree, every claim grounded in a verbatim source quote.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

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.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "anthropic-api-key",
      "description": "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "ncbi-email",
      "description": "NCBI_EMAIL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "studydiff": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "studydiff-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "${input:anthropic-api-key}",
        "NCBI_EMAIL": "${input:ncbi-email}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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