# MCP VS Code MCP Server

A self-hosted VS Code workbench embedded as an interactive MCP App.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@mario.andreschak/mcp-vscode` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Epic: render an editor in every MCP host - automatic native (Monaco) -> embedded (iframe) -> browser fallback

Tracking issue for making the MCP App render an editor in **every** host, including hosts that refuse to frame our loopback origin (Claude Desktop today).

Read this first in a fresh session — it contains the full root-cause evidence so the investigation does not have to be repeated.

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## Symptom

`vscode_open` renders the app shell correctly (titlebar, statusbar, `http://127.0.0.1:60957`, runtime `ready`), but the embedded workbench area stays blank in Claude Desktop.

Claude Desktop devtoo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/flujo-app/mcp-vscode-mcpapp/issues/10) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 4 comments

### Phase 4: tests, docs, and upstream report on dropped frameDomains

## Tasks

### 1. Integration tests (`tests-integration/`)

Tier-selection harness that simulates and asserts the resolved tier:

- assets blocked -> `embedded`
- framing blocked -> `native`
- both blocked -> `browser`
- runtime not started yet -> still resolves (Tier 1 must not depend on OpenVSCode being up)

No path may throw an unhandled rejection or leave the UI blank.

### 2. Unit tests (`tests/`)

- `/assets`: path traversal rejected, MIME types correct, CORS headers present.
- `/ui`: conne

[Read the thread](https://github.com/flujo-app/mcp-vscode-mcpapp/issues/9) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 4 comments

### Phase 3: renderer-aware editor tool routing + shared model/user context

## Goal

Make the existing `editor_*` tools work against whichever surface is live, and let the model and the human share context. **No tool schema changes** - routing is automatic.

## Tasks

### 1. Renderer-aware routing in core

`editor_open`, `editor_state`, `editor_set_selection`, `editor_apply_edits`, `diagnostics_get` currently call `core.bridge.call(...)` unconditionally, which hangs or fails when no OpenVSCode workbench/extension is connected.

Resolve the target automatically:

1. VS C

[Read the thread](https://github.com/flujo-app/mcp-vscode-mcpapp/issues/8) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 4 comments

### Phase 2: native Monaco renderer + automatic tier selection (native -> embedded -> browser)

## Goal

The app renders a working editor using only capabilities guaranteed by the MCP Apps spec (`connectDomains` + `resourceDomains`), and picks its rendering strategy **automatically**. No configuration, no flags, no tool parameters.

Depends on the gateway work (assets, `/ui`, alive handshake, `uiToken`/`assetsUrl` in the session payload).

## Fallback chain (fixed order, fully automatic)

```
Tier 1  native   Monaco + xterm in the app document
   |            (needs: assets loadable from t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/flujo-app/mcp-vscode-mcpapp/issues/7) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 3 comments

### Phase 1: gateway foundations - /assets, /ui socket, workbench liveness handshake

## Goal

Everything the native renderer needs, added to the existing gateway. **Zero new CLI flags, zero new env vars, zero new tool inputs.**

## Why

The MCP host grants us, via metadata we *already* declare and that is *proven* to round-trip:

- `connect-src http://127.0.0.1:PORT ws://127.0.0.1:PORT` (from `connectDomains`)
- `img/script/style/font/media-src http://127.0.0.1:PORT` (from `resourceDomains`)

So the gateway may act as an asset origin + realtime backend. Only *framing* our origin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/flujo-app/mcp-vscode-mcpapp/issues/6) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 3 comments

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for MCP VS Code](/mcp/mcp-vs-code/issues).

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