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OpenRouter for VS Code

io.github.tsilva/mcp-openrouter

MCP server providing access to 300+ AI models via OpenRouter

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install OpenRouter in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "openrouter-api-key",
      "description": "OPENROUTER_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-text-model",
      "description": "DEFAULT_TEXT_MODEL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-image-model",
      "description": "DEFAULT_IMAGE_MODEL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-code-model",
      "description": "DEFAULT_CODE_MODEL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-vision-model",
      "description": "DEFAULT_VISION_MODEL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-embedding-model",
      "description": "DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp-openrouter": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-openrouter"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "${input:openrouter-api-key}",
        "DEFAULT_TEXT_MODEL": "${input:default-text-model}",
        "DEFAULT_IMAGE_MODEL": "${input:default-image-model}",
        "DEFAULT_CODE_MODEL": "${input:default-code-model}",
        "DEFAULT_VISION_MODEL": "${input:default-vision-model}",
        "DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "${input:default-embedding-model}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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