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TopicForge for VS Code

io.github.yaniswav/topicforge

Read-only MCP server for ROS2 and DDS: topics, participants, QoS mismatches, bags.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install TopicForge in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "topicforge-mode",
      "description": "TOPICFORGE_MODE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "topicforge-dds-backend",
      "description": "TOPICFORGE_DDS_BACKEND",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "topicforge-dds-domain-id",
      "description": "TOPICFORGE_DDS_DOMAIN_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "topicforge-telemetry",
      "description": "TOPICFORGE_TELEMETRY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "topicforge": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "topicforge"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TOPICFORGE_MODE": "${input:topicforge-mode}",
        "TOPICFORGE_DDS_BACKEND": "${input:topicforge-dds-backend}",
        "TOPICFORGE_DDS_DOMAIN_ID": "${input:topicforge-dds-domain-id}",
        "TOPICFORGE_TELEMETRY": "${input:topicforge-telemetry}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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