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Prism for VS Code

io.github.shailesh200/prism

Local-first repo intelligence for agents: DNA, health, blast radius, and Dispatch jobs.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Prism in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "prism-workspace",
      "description": "PRISM_WORKSPACE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "cursor-api-key",
      "description": "CURSOR_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "prism-dispatch-role",
      "description": "PRISM_DISPATCH_ROLE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "prism": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@repo-prism/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PRISM_WORKSPACE": "${input:prism-workspace}",
        "CURSOR_API_KEY": "${input:cursor-api-key}",
        "PRISM_DISPATCH_ROLE": "${input:prism-dispatch-role}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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