VS Code

Additional requirements

Install VS Code and enable MCPs

Install VS Code here.

Enable MCPs by toggling on the chat.mcp.enabled setting.

Install Moose and Sloan CLI

Terminal
bash -i <(curl -fsSL https://fiveonefour.com/install.sh) sloan,moose

Configure Sloan MCP

Create a new project with Claude Desktop MCP preconfigured:

Terminal
sloan init <project-name> <template-name> --mcp vscode-project

If you want to use this as a global VS Code MCP, use vscode-global instead of vscode-project.

For other options, see Sloan CLI docs.

Adding other toolsets

For more information on available toolsets, see Sloan MCP toolsets. All toolsets are available for Cursor.

Using the MCP

[ ] TODO: Add instructions for running the MCP server in VS Code

Warnings / Peculiarities

Warning:

Recommended Configuration Method: While VS Code has a feature that allows you to use MCPs from other clients (like Claude Desktop), we strongly recommend using either the Sloan CLI or the settings.json file method shown above instead. These methods provide better reliability and configuration control specifically for VS Code environments.

Common issues / troubleshooting

  • The MCP is running, but you aren’t able to get your data? Look at the tool call response, it will tell you if your Moose dev server is running. If it is not, run moose dev in your Moose project directory.
  • The MCP is not running. Check your configuration and then restart the application.

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