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guardian mcp for VS Code

io.github.odingard/guardian-mcp

Routes agent tool calls through Guardian for ALLOW/ASK/DENY before execution.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install guardian mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "guardian-base-url",
      "description": "GUARDIAN_BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "guardian-agent-credential",
      "description": "GUARDIAN_AGENT_CREDENTIAL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "guardian-connection-id",
      "description": "GUARDIAN_CONNECTION_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "guardian-adapter-id",
      "description": "GUARDIAN_ADAPTER_ID",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "guardian-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@odingard/guardian-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GUARDIAN_BASE_URL": "${input:guardian-base-url}",
        "GUARDIAN_AGENT_CREDENTIAL": "${input:guardian-agent-credential}",
        "GUARDIAN_CONNECTION_ID": "${input:guardian-connection-id}",
        "GUARDIAN_ADAPTER_ID": "${input:guardian-adapter-id}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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