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Install nimbus in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "nimbus-bin",
      "description": "NIMBUS_BIN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "nimbus-mcp-timeout-ms",
      "description": "NIMBUS_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "nimbus": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@nimbus-dev/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NIMBUS_BIN": "${input:nimbus-bin}",
        "NIMBUS_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS": "${input:nimbus-mcp-timeout-ms}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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