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How to use Google Flights with VS Code

You want Google Flights inside VS Code so it can compare flight options for a trip, plan an open-jaw itinerary, find the right airports for a destination, and identify where to book a selected itinerary — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Google Flights gateway

The gateway is the thing VS Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Google Flights 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 Google Flights tools

    In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Google Flights 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 Google Flights 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 Google Flights tools.

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

Try these flight prompts

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

This toolkit only reads flight data. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to limit an agent to airport lookup and flight searches, and keep booking-option lookups out of its scope when needed.

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