MCP VS Code MCP Server
A self-hosted VS Code workbench embedded as an interactive MCP App.
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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.
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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.
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 · 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 · 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:
- VS C
Read the thread · 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
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