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Minimal Starter

by Jonathan S

The essential trio for any project: filesystem, GitHub, and web fetch. Clean and simple.

Servers in this stack

file-system
Filesystem

Read and write files on the local filesystem.

@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem
developer-tools
GitHub

Interact with GitHub repositories, issues, and pull requests.

@modelcontextprotocol/server-github
web
Fetch

HTTP fetch tool for reading web content and APIs.

@modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch

Copy config

// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem"
      ],
      "type": "stdio"
    },
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
      ],
      "type": "stdio"
    },
    "fetch": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch"
      ],
      "type": "stdio"
    }
  }
}