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mcp recipes for VS Code

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Install mcp recipes in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-user-agent",
      "description": "RECIPES_USER_AGENT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-min-interval-ms",
      "description": "RECIPES_MIN_INTERVAL_MS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-timeout-ms",
      "description": "RECIPES_TIMEOUT_MS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-max-retries",
      "description": "RECIPES_MAX_RETRIES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-cache-ttl-ms",
      "description": "RECIPES_CACHE_TTL_MS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-cache-max-entries",
      "description": "RECIPES_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "recipes-log-level",
      "description": "RECIPES_LOG_LEVEL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp-recipes": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-recipes"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RECIPES_USER_AGENT": "${input:recipes-user-agent}",
        "RECIPES_MIN_INTERVAL_MS": "${input:recipes-min-interval-ms}",
        "RECIPES_TIMEOUT_MS": "${input:recipes-timeout-ms}",
        "RECIPES_MAX_RETRIES": "${input:recipes-max-retries}",
        "RECIPES_CACHE_TTL_MS": "${input:recipes-cache-ttl-ms}",
        "RECIPES_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES": "${input:recipes-cache-max-entries}",
        "RECIPES_LOG_LEVEL": "${input:recipes-log-level}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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