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exerciseapi for VS Code

io.github.westvegh/exerciseapi

Give your AI coding agent direct access to 2,198+ exercises via exerciseapi.dev

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install exerciseapi in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "exerciseapi-key",
      "description": "EXERCISEAPI_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "exerciseapi": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@exerciseapi/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EXERCISEAPI_KEY": "${input:exerciseapi-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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