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dashclaw for VS Code

io.github.ucsandman/dashclaw

Policy checks, approvals, records, and governed HTTP capabilities for unattended agents.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install dashclaw in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "dashclaw-url",
      "description": "DASHCLAW_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "dashclaw-api-key",
      "description": "DASHCLAW_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "dashclaw-agent-id",
      "description": "DASHCLAW_AGENT_ID",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "dashclaw": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dashclaw/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DASHCLAW_URL": "${input:dashclaw-url}",
        "DASHCLAW_API_KEY": "${input:dashclaw-api-key}",
        "DASHCLAW_AGENT_ID": "${input:dashclaw-agent-id}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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