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Umbraco CMS MCP Dev for VS Code

io.github.umbraco/umbraco-cms-mcp-dev

A developer focused model context protocol (MCP) server for Umbraco CMS

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

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.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "umbraco-client-id",
      "description": "UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "umbraco-client-secret",
      "description": "UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "umbraco-base-url",
      "description": "UMBRACO_BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "umbraco-include-tool-collections",
      "description": "UMBRACO_INCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "umbraco-readonly",
      "description": "UMBRACO_READONLY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "umbraco-cms-mcp-dev": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@umbraco-cms/mcp-dev"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID": "${input:umbraco-client-id}",
        "UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET": "${input:umbraco-client-secret}",
        "UMBRACO_BASE_URL": "${input:umbraco-base-url}",
        "UMBRACO_INCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS": "${input:umbraco-include-tool-collections}",
        "UMBRACO_READONLY": "${input:umbraco-readonly}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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