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MCP Sentinel for VS Code

io.github.oaslananka/sentinel

Zero-trust MCP security proxy with policy enforcement, PII scrubbing, approvals, and audit trails.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install MCP Sentinel in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sentinel-db-path",
      "description": "SENTINEL_DB_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sentinel-upstream-url",
      "description": "SENTINEL_UPSTREAM_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sentinel-upstream-command",
      "description": "SENTINEL_UPSTREAM_COMMAND",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "sentinel": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oaslananka/sentinel"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SENTINEL_DB_PATH": "${input:sentinel-db-path}",
        "SENTINEL_UPSTREAM_URL": "${input:sentinel-upstream-url}",
        "SENTINEL_UPSTREAM_COMMAND": "${input:sentinel-upstream-command}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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