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Perseus — Live Context Engine for AI Agents for VS Code

io.github.tcconnally/perseus

Live context engine for AI agents. 27+ MCP tools: health, memory, skills, file trees on demand.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Perseus — Live Context Engine for AI Agents in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "perseus-workspace",
      "description": "PERSEUS_WORKSPACE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "perseus": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "perseus-ctx"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERSEUS_WORKSPACE": "${input:perseus-workspace}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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