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textbee SMS for VS Code

io.github.textbee/mcp

Send and read SMS through your own Android phone via textbee.dev, the open-source SMS gateway.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install textbee SMS in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "textbee-api-key",
      "description": "TEXTBEE_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "textbee-base-url",
      "description": "TEXTBEE_BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@textbee/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TEXTBEE_API_KEY": "${input:textbee-api-key}",
        "TEXTBEE_BASE_URL": "${input:textbee-base-url}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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