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io.github.pay-skill/pay-mcp

USDC payments for AI agents on Base — direct, tabs, x402 paywalls, discovery

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install pay mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "payskill-signer-key",
      "description": "PAYSKILL_SIGNER_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pay-network",
      "description": "PAY_NETWORK",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "pay-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pay-skill/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PAYSKILL_SIGNER_KEY": "${input:payskill-signer-key}",
        "PAY_NETWORK": "${input:pay-network}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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