Connect jpcite to Continue (VSCode / JetBrains) MCP in 5 minutes

Five-minute setup

1. Install Continue: search for Continue in the VSCode marketplace or JetBrains plugins and install it. Confirm 0.9 or later (v0.8 and below do not support MCP).
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 config.yaml: click the gear icon at the top right of the Continue sidebar → open ~/.continue/config.yaml. When sharing a workspace, .continue/config.yaml at the repo root also works.
4. Add jpcite to mcpServers: paste the snippet below and save. Continue 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 Continue's ~/.continue/config.yaml (open it from the gear icon).

mcpServers:
  - name: 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. If you commit .continue/config.yaml to your repo, switch env to environment-variable expansion (${JPCITE_API_KEY}) to avoid leaking the secret.

Verification

Type the following in Continue chat. Success means jpcite is called and the result comes back with a source_url.

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

You are connected when jpcite appears in the MCP section of the Continue pane 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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