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tiger skills for VS Code

io.github.timescale/tiger-skills

Provider agnostic skills implementation, with skills sourced from local paths or GitHub repositories

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Install tiger skills in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "github-token",
      "description": "GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "skills-file",
      "description": "SKILLS_FILE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tiger-skills": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@tigerdata/tiger-skills-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "${input:github-token}",
        "SKILLS_FILE": "${input:skills-file}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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