Set up metatron in VS Code

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Metatron is a self-hosted system that captures a codebase's real implementation decisions — preferred patterns, rejected approaches, edge cases, internal conventions — as structured priors, and serves them to coding agents over MCP (Model Context Protocol). The goal: an agent writes code like a senior engineer who already knows the codebase

01Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "metatron": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "kerbelp/getmetatron"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json. Generated from the captured install method (docker); the mcpServers shape is shared across Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and VS Code.

02Steps

Make sure VS Code is installed and up to date.
Open .vscode/mcp.json and add the block above (merge into any existing mcpServers).
Provide any required API keys/credentials as environment variables.
Restart VS Code and confirm metatron’s tools appear.

03Other runtimes

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04Provenance

config_sourcegenerated from captured install method

last_checked2026-07-07 05:58Z

sourcesGitHub repo search [p4]

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