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release notes mcp for VS Code

io.github.vaggeliskls/release-notes-mcp

A small, generic MCP server for combining GitHub/GitLab/Gitea releases into product release notes

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install release notes mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "release-mcp-config-json",
      "description": "RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG_JSON",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "release-mcp-config",
      "description": "RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "token",
      "description": "TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "provider",
      "description": "PROVIDER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "base-url",
      "description": "BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "release-notes-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "release-notes-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG_JSON": "${input:release-mcp-config-json}",
        "RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG": "${input:release-mcp-config}",
        "TOKEN": "${input:token}",
        "PROVIDER": "${input:provider}",
        "BASE_URL": "${input:base-url}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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