Add the Qdrant MCP server to VS Code

Prerequisites

• VS Code installed.
• QDRANT_URL — URL of the Qdrant instance. Required unless using QDRANT_LOCAL_PATH.
• COLLECTION_NAME — Name of the Qdrant collection to use. Required unless provided per-tool.

Setup

{
  "servers": {
    "qdrant": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-qdrant"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QDRANT_URL": "<QDRANT_URL>",
        "COLLECTION_NAME": "<COLLECTION_NAME>",
        "QDRANT_API_KEY": "<QDRANT_API_KEY>",
        "EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<EMBEDDING_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gotchas

• VS Code uses the `servers` key (not `mcpServers`) and requires `type`.

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.