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How to use Fireflies with VS Code

You want Fireflies inside VS Code so it can turn meeting recordings into follow-up work, find the meeting behind a decision, prepare clips for a team update, and control access to sensitive meetings — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Fireflies gateway

The gateway is the thing VS Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Fireflies tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

  1. Create an Arcade account

    Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.

  2. Create an MCP Gateway and select your Fireflies tools

    In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Fireflies tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.

  3. Copy your gateway URL

    Every client below needs it.

    https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>

Create a Fireflies gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to VS Code

  1. Add the server

    VS Code 1.107.0 or higher. Command Palette → MCP: Add Server… → choose HTTP, paste your gateway URL, and name it something like mcp-arcade.

  2. Start it and authenticate

    Click Start next to the server in mcp.json or under Extensions → MCP Servers - Installed, then approve the Arcade sign-in and consent screens.

  3. Try it out

    Open the chat pane, switch to Agent mode, and ask it to use one of your Fireflies tools.

Full VS Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these Fireflies prompts

VS Code can now act on your Fireflies account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Control which actions an agent can take, including recording uploads, live meeting capture, sharing, and access revocation. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can read transcripts without granting teammates access or sending a notetaker into a live meeting.

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