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Install tinysearch in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mcp-transport",
      "description": "MCP_TRANSPORT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tinysearch-config-path",
      "description": "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "searxng-url",
      "description": "SEARXNG_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tinysearch-embedding-backend",
      "description": "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tinysearch-embedding-model",
      "description": "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-service-name",
      "description": "OTEL_SERVICE_NAME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-exporter-otlp-endpoint",
      "description": "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-exporter-otlp-protocol",
      "description": "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-exporter-otlp-headers",
      "description": "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-resource-attributes",
      "description": "OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-traces-exporter",
      "description": "OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-metrics-exporter",
      "description": "OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "otel-sdk-disabled",
      "description": "OTEL_SDK_DISABLED",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tinysearch": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.6.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "${input:mcp-transport}",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "${input:tinysearch-config-path}",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "${input:searxng-url}",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "${input:tinysearch-embedding-backend}",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "${input:tinysearch-embedding-model}",
        "OTEL_SERVICE_NAME": "${input:otel-service-name}",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT": "${input:otel-exporter-otlp-endpoint}",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL": "${input:otel-exporter-otlp-protocol}",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS": "${input:otel-exporter-otlp-headers}",
        "OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES": "${input:otel-resource-attributes}",
        "OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER": "${input:otel-traces-exporter}",
        "OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER": "${input:otel-metrics-exporter}",
        "OTEL_SDK_DISABLED": "${input:otel-sdk-disabled}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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