component-explorer

component-explorer is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from microsoft/vscode. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

An MCP server configuration for launching a component explorer with a fixture file. A component explorer is a tool for examining reusable interface components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Launching the configured component explorer service for the supplied test fixtures.
Why use it?
It provides a ready-made way to start this project-specific component exploration service.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it.

One of 2 entries in mcp.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

Good fit Launching the configured component explorer service for the supplied test fixtures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/microsoft/vscode/component-explorer
About the project

Visual Studio Code is a code editor that supports editing, navigating, understanding, debugging, and extending software projects. Developers use it for the edit-build-debug cycle, and the catalogue add-ons provide skills, instructions, and agents for working within the editor.

microsoft/vscode · 191,195 stars · on GitHub · code.visualstudio.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

component-explorer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.vscode/mcp.json · 17 lines

What it actually says

{
  "component-explorer": {
    "type": "stdio",
    "command": "npm",
    "args": [
      "exec",
      "--no",
      "--",
      "component-explorer",
      "mcp",
      "-p",
      "./test/componentFixtures/component-explorer.json",
      "--use-daemon",
      "-vv"
    ]
  }
}
Same file

What else mcp.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 2. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 17 lines scan A 5a6b25caba61

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component-explorer is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (191,195 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.