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Life Dashboard for VS Code

io.github.owen282000/life-dashboard

Read-only health and screen time history from the Postgres of a self-hosted Life Dashboard Stack

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Life Dashboard in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mcp-transport",
      "description": "MCP_TRANSPORT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pghost",
      "description": "PGHOST",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pgdatabase",
      "description": "PGDATABASE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pguser",
      "description": "PGUSER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pgpassword",
      "description": "PGPASSWORD",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "life-dashboard": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/owen282000/life-dashboard-mcp:1.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "${input:mcp-transport}",
        "PGHOST": "${input:pghost}",
        "PGDATABASE": "${input:pgdatabase}",
        "PGUSER": "${input:pguser}",
        "PGPASSWORD": "${input:pgpassword}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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