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Tiger MCP for VS Code

io.github.timescale/tiger-cli

Provides programmatic access to Tiger Cloud services, databases, and documentation.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Tiger MCP in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tiger-public-key",
      "description": "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tiger-secret-key",
      "description": "TIGER_SECRET_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tiger-cli": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.25.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY": "${input:tiger-public-key}",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY": "${input:tiger-secret-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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