Add the BrowserStack MCP server to VS Code

Prerequisites

• VS Code installed.
• BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME — Your BrowserStack username, found in your account settings.
• BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY — Your BrowserStack access key, found in your account settings.

Setup

{
  "servers": {
    "browserstack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.browserstack.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gotchas

VS Code is the exception to every other client: its top-level key is "servers", not "mcpServers", and each entry needs an explicit "type" (for example "http" or "stdio"). Secrets are not inlined; instead you declare an "inputs" array and reference each value as ${input:id}, so VS Code prompts for it once and never writes it to disk. Remote servers connect natively with OAuth.