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Kite Connect MCP for VS Code

io.github.techfreakworm/kite-connect-mcp

Zerodha Kite Connect v3 for AI agents: orders (dry-run by default), GTT, alerts, portfolio, quotes

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

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.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kite-api-key",
      "description": "KITE_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kite-api-secret",
      "description": "KITE_API_SECRET",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kite-mcp-auth-mode",
      "description": "KITE_MCP_AUTH_MODE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kite-token-file",
      "description": "KITE_TOKEN_FILE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kite-mcp-trading-mode",
      "description": "KITE_MCP_TRADING_MODE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kite-mcp-read-only",
      "description": "KITE_MCP_READ_ONLY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kite-connect-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "kite-connect-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KITE_API_KEY": "${input:kite-api-key}",
        "KITE_API_SECRET": "${input:kite-api-secret}",
        "KITE_MCP_AUTH_MODE": "${input:kite-mcp-auth-mode}",
        "KITE_TOKEN_FILE": "${input:kite-token-file}",
        "KITE_MCP_TRADING_MODE": "${input:kite-mcp-trading-mode}",
        "KITE_MCP_READ_ONLY": "${input:kite-mcp-read-only}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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