Vinkius MCP Catalog

Your MCP servers. Every AI client. One click.

You have Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Cline — each one with its own MCP config file, its own JSON schema, scattered across your filesystem. You install a server in Cursor. Then you do it again for Claude. Again for Copilot. Again for Windsurf. Different keys, different paths, different formats. Every. Single. Time.

Vinkius MCP Catalog sees all of them. One sidebar. One control surface. Every MCP server and every AI client on your machine — managed from your editor.

My MCP Servers — the view no one else has

Other extensions let you add a server. Vinkius MCP Catalog shows you every MCP server already configured on your machine — across every AI client simultaneously.

Open the My MCP Servers panel and you see the complete picture:

A server installed only in Cursor? It's there.
A server configured in Claude Desktop but not in VS Code? It's there.
A server you added via Gemini CLI last week? It's there too.

Every server. Every client. One unified list.

Click any server and its full detail panel opens: transport type, connection string, environment variables (masked by default), and exactly which clients have it installed. No more digging through ~/.cursor/mcp.json, ~/.config/claude/config.json, ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json — it's all right here.

Hit Edit and you can modify the configuration, change the transport, update environment variables, and add or remove the server from specific clients — all at once. Save, and every selected client receives the updated config in the exact format it expects.

AI Clients — your entire MCP ecosystem at a glance

The AI Clients panel does something no other tool does: it auto-detects every MCP-compatible AI client installed on your machine and shows you exactly what's inside each one.

What gets detected

Category	Clients
IDEs	Visual Studio Code · VS Code Insiders · Cursor · Windsurf · JetBrains
Agents	Cline · Continue.dev · GitHub Copilot · Google Antigravity
Native apps	Claude Desktop · Gemini CLI · Goose by Block

Each client shows its detection status and a count of installed MCP servers. Click any client and you see:

Every MCP server configured in that client
The config file path and format
Connection details for each server

This is the control plane that was missing. You finally know exactly what's installed where, without opening a single JSON file.

App Catalog — browse and install in seconds

A built-in marketplace with hundreds of MCP servers from the Vinkius registry. Search by name, browse by category, see descriptions and capabilities.

When you find what you need:

Click Install
Select your target clients (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf — as many as you want)
Done. The extension writes the correct config, in the correct format, at the correct path, for every selected client.

One action. All clients updated simultaneously. No settings.json editing. No copy-pasting JSON blocks between files.

MCP Introspection — see what a server can do

Click ⟳ Discover on any server and the extension connects via JSON-RPC 2.0, performs the full MCP handshake, and lists every capability the server exposes:

Capability	What you see
Tools	Function name and description for every tool the server provides
Resources	URIs and descriptions of available data resources
Prompts	Named prompt templates and their arguments

Supports both stdio (local commands) and Streamable HTTP (remote servers, with SSE fallback) transports. Works with any MCP-compliant server.

Full capability matrix

Feature	Description
Unified server view	See every MCP server on your machine, regardless of which client it belongs to
Multi-client auto-detection	12+ AI clients detected automatically with config path resolution
Simultaneous deployment	Install or update a server across all selected clients in one action
Inline editing	Edit server config, transport, env vars, and client targets without leaving the panel
JSONC-safe writes	Production-grade parser that preserves comments, trailing commas, and file formatting
Capability introspection	Discover tools, resources, and prompts via live JSON-RPC 2.0 connection
Transport handling	Automatic resolution of stdio and Streamable HTTP/SSE transports
Theme-aware UI	Adapts seamlessly to VS Code light and dark themes

Getting started

Install → Search Vinkius MCP Catalog in the Extensions panel (Ctrl+Shift+X), or:

ext install vinkius.ide-catalog

The Vinkius icon appears in your Activity Bar. Click it. Your installed MCP servers and detected AI clients are already there — no setup, no configuration, no account required.

Why this exists

MCP made every API accessible to every AI agent. But the configuration layer is still fragmented — 12 clients, 12 config files, 12 different JSON schemas, scattered across your filesystem.

My MCP Servers and AI Clients are the solution: a single control surface that reads, writes, and synchronizes every client's configuration from one place.

Pair it with Vinkius Desktop for full system-wide management outside the IDE, or use the Vinkius Cloud gateway for production deployments with DLP, token gating, and observability.

Requirements

VS Code 1.80+, Cursor, Windsurf, or any compatible IDE
No account required — free and open source

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, project structure, and guidelines.

git clone https://github.com/vinkius-labs/mcp-catalog.git
cd mcp-catalog && pnpm install && pnpm run dev

License

Apache 2.0 — built by Vinkius Labs.

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