Add the Zendesk MCP server to VS Code

Prerequisites

• VS Code installed.
• ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN — Your Zendesk subdomain (the part before .zendesk.com).
• ZENDESK_EMAIL — Email of the Zendesk agent whose API token is used.
• ZENDESK_API_KEY — Zendesk API token for authentication.

Setup

{
  "servers": {
    "zendesk": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "git+https://github.com/reminia/zendesk-mcp-server",
        "zendesk"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN": "<ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN>",
        "ZENDESK_EMAIL": "<ZENDESK_EMAIL>",
        "ZENDESK_API_KEY": "<ZENDESK_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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.