Introducing gj :: servAI - a VS Code extension to help you use MCP servers targeting IRIS
Over the past year there have been a few DC articles offering MCP servers designed to connect to IRIS and help the AI features of VS Code and its cousins do a better job. For example:
- Hey chat, what's up with my Interoperability by @Dmitry Maslennikov
- No-Hallucinate MCP: Real-time Routine Context for ObjectScript by @Jinyao
- iris-mcp-atelier introduced by @Ernest Salas in his comment on the Claude Code vs ISFS. Has anyone cracked how to get one to see the other? post by @Mark Charlton
Each of these is implemented as a "stdio" type of MCP server, running as a local process and needing server details plus credentials to be passed in env variables.
However, if you're already using Server Manager to define your connections and (optionally) to store the associated credentials securely, wouldn't it be neat to get your MCP servers using these? That's what gj :: servAI is built to do.
For its initial proof-of-concept release (0.0.1) gj :: servAI only knows about @Jinyao's MCP server.
Feedback is welcome, either here or on the extension's GitHub repo. I have also published gj :: servAI on Open Exchange.