Piia Engram for VS Code

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client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Piia Engram in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-mcp-startup-sync",
      "description": "ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-tools",
      "description": "ENGRAM_TOOLS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pythonioencoding",
      "description": "PYTHONIOENCODING",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "piia-engram": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "piia-engram"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC": "${input:engram-mcp-startup-sync}",
        "ENGRAM_TOOLS": "${input:engram-tools}",
        "PYTHONIOENCODING": "${input:pythonioencoding}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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