Add the Replicate MCP server to VS Code

Prerequisites

• VS Code installed.
• REPLICATE_API_TOKEN — Replicate API token from replicate.com/account/api-tokens. Required for the local stdio server; the remote server obtains it through the browser auth flow.

Setup

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

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.