Connect jpcite to Cline (VSCode) MCP in 5 minutes

Five-minute setup

1. Install Cline: search for Cline (formerly Claude Dev) in the VSCode marketplace and install it. Confirm 1.4 or later.
2. Prepare uvx: install with curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh (skip if you already have it). If uv is not installed, brew install uv also works.
3. Open the MCP servers panel: click the MCP Servers icon at the top of the Cline sidebar → Configure MCP Servers to open cline_mcp_settings.json.
4. Add jpcite to mcpServers: paste the snippet below and save. Cline reloads the server automatically.
5. (Optional) Embed an API key: replace env.JPCITE_API_KEY with your jc_... key (new keys use the jc_ prefix; previously issued sk_ / am_ keys remain compatible). Omit it to stay on the anonymous free tier.

Copy-paste snippet

Paste into Cline's cline_mcp_settings.json (open it from Configure MCP Servers).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jpcite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["autonomath-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "JPCITE_API_KEY": "jc_xxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

If you have run pip install autonomath-mcp, "command": "autonomath-mcp" also works. When sharing a workspace, switch env to environment-variable expansion (${JPCITE_API_KEY}) to avoid leaking the secret.

Verification

Type the following in Cline chat. Success means jpcite is called and the result comes back with a source_url. If you use Cline's auto-approve mode, add the jpcite tool calls to the allow list.

@jpcite search_programs q="ものづくり補助金" prefecture="東京都"

You are connected when jpcite turns green in the MCP Servers panel and shows a tools count of 261. Generation of 36-Agreement labor documents is not offered publicly.

When smoke-testing the REST endpoint directly, always use -G --data-urlencode. Embedding a Japanese query straight into the URL breaks the HTTP request line, and the API returns {"error":{"code":"bad_request",...,"hint":"Use --data-urlencode for non-ASCII query params..."}}.

curl -G "https://api.jpcite.com/v1/programs/search" \
  --data-urlencode "q=ものづくり補助金" \
  --data-urlencode "prefecture=東京都" \
  -H "X-API-Key: ${JPCITE_API_KEY:-}"

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