Use developer utilities with VS Code

Exact answers for the small dev chores: regex, JWTs, cron schedules, subnets, schemas. Connect VS Code to the WingMan MCP gateway once and these tools are available in every conversation.

1. Connect VS Code

Create .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace (or run MCP: Open User Configuration for all workspaces), then start the server from the Chat view's tools picker.

{
  "servers": {
    "wingman": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://wingmanprotocol.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-Wingman-Tools": "full"
      }
    }
  }
}

2. The tools you get

Names and descriptions come straight from the live tool registry.

• regex_testerTest a regex pattern against text (findall/search/fullmatch/split/sub) using a timeout-guarded engine so a catastrophic pattern fails fast instead…
• jwt_decodeDecode a JWT's header and payload to JSON.
• cron_nextNext fire times of a 5-field cron expression after a base time.
• subnetNetwork, broadcast, netmask, usable host range and counts for an IPv4 CIDR block.
• json_schema_validateValidate a JSON value against a JSON Schema (bounded draft-07-ish subset: type/enum/required/properties/items/min-max/pattern) and list every…

These tools sit outside the default tool list, so the config above sets X-Wingman-Tools: full to load the whole catalogue. Without it, your agent can still reach them with discover_tools, then get_tool_schema, then tools/call.

3. Ask for it

Give VS Code a task that needs it, for example “use regex_tester from wingman”. The tool call goes to https://wingmanprotocol.com/mcp and the result comes back into the conversation.

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