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tether for VS Code

io.github.sidyellur/tether

Local-first agent memory over SQLite: remember, recall, link, forget. Degrades, never fails.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install tether in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tether-db",
      "description": "TETHER_DB",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tether-semantic",
      "description": "TETHER_SEMANTIC",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tether-sync-url",
      "description": "TETHER_SYNC_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tether-sync-token",
      "description": "TETHER_SYNC_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tether": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tether-memory"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TETHER_DB": "${input:tether-db}",
        "TETHER_SEMANTIC": "${input:tether-semantic}",
        "TETHER_SYNC_URL": "${input:tether-sync-url}",
        "TETHER_SYNC_TOKEN": "${input:tether-sync-token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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