Aseprite Live for VS Code

io.github.oaktreegames/aseprite-live-mcp

Live+headless Aseprite MCP: Unity export, art-QA, tilemaps, in-editor dialogs, update-aware

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Aseprite Live in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "aseprite-mcp-backend",
      "description": "ASEPRITE_MCP_BACKEND",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "aseprite-path",
      "description": "ASEPRITE_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "aseprite-relay-url",
      "description": "ASEPRITE_RELAY_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "aseprite-mcp-no-update-check",
      "description": "ASEPRITE_MCP_NO_UPDATE_CHECK",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "aseprite-live-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aseprite-live-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ASEPRITE_MCP_BACKEND": "${input:aseprite-mcp-backend}",
        "ASEPRITE_PATH": "${input:aseprite-path}",
        "ASEPRITE_RELAY_URL": "${input:aseprite-relay-url}",
        "ASEPRITE_MCP_NO_UPDATE_CHECK": "${input:aseprite-mcp-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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