Incisor Knowledge Base for VS Code

Give your AI coding assistant live, up-to-date knowledge of the Incisor® software/game development platform.

This extension connects your editor to the hosted Incisor knowledge base over MCP and automatically detects Incisor projects, so assistants like Claude, Cursor, Cline, and Continue can answer Incisor questions accurately — using the latest API docs, tutorials, example projects, tooltips, and troubleshooting Q&A.

What it does

Registers the Incisor KB MCP server so any MCP-aware assistant in VS Code can call its tools:
- search_kb(query, top_k?, docType?) — semantic search over the KB.
- get_doc(id) — fetch the full section for a result.
Detects Incisor projects by their ProjectSettings.json signature and writes a managed context block into your assistant instruction files (CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md) so the assistant knows to use the KB.
Stays current automatically — the knowledge base is updated server-side, so you always get the latest Incisor knowledge without updating the extension.

Getting started

Install the extension.
Open an Incisor project. The extension auto-detects it and writes KB context for your assistant (CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md) plus a project .mcp.json. Ask your assistant an Incisor question and it will consult the KB.

The default incisor.mcpServerUrl already points at the hosted server, so for most users no settings change is needed.

Claude Code users — one-time approval. Claude Code requires you to approve any project .mcp.json server before it loads. The first time you open an Incisor project, Claude Code will show the incisor-kb tools as not connected until you approve them: run /mcp in chat and approve incisor-kb (or accept the prompt when starting a session). After that, search_kb / get_doc work.

GitHub Copilot doesn't support MCP via .mcp.json — the extension registers the server with VS Code's native MCP (Copilot agent mode) and writes .github/copilot-instructions.md as a fallback context channel.

Commands

Incisor: Enable KB context for this project — (re)write the context files.
Incisor: Search the Knowledge Base — ask a question via your AI chat, routed through the Incisor KB server.

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`incisor.mcpServerUrl`	`https://mcp.incisordev.com/mcp`	Hosted Incisor KB MCP endpoint.
`incisor.autoInjectContext`	`true`	Auto-write context files when an Incisor project is detected.
`incisor.contextFiles`	`["CLAUDE.md", ".github/copilot-instructions.md"]`	Which context files to maintain.
`incisor.writeMcpJson`	`true`	Write a project `.mcp.json` so Claude Code picks up the KB server (needs one-time approval).

Using with other MCP clients

Point any MCP client at the same URL:

{ "mcpServers": { "incisor-kb": { "url": "https://mcp.incisordev.com/mcp" } } }

Incisor® is a registered trademark. KB content is subject to the Incisor end user license.