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Relay for WhatsApp for VS Code

io.github.viaanshetty3-debug/relay-whatsapp-mcp

Your WhatsApp as 38 MCP tools: read, search, send and media across accounts, self-hosted.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Relay for WhatsApp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "relay-home",
      "description": "RELAY_HOME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "bridge-url",
      "description": "BRIDGE_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "relay-whatsapp-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "relay-whatsapp-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RELAY_HOME": "${input:relay-home}",
        "BRIDGE_URL": "${input:bridge-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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