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MCP Purchase Requisition in VS Code

Purchase requisitions you build once and run per order, with a signed record of each run. You hold a requisition as a named, versioned list of steps, optionally grouped into sections, each required or optional, and run it against an order as many times as you like. A run copies its requisition's steps when it starts and records the version, so editing the requisition afterwards never changes a run already under way. run_check marks steps pass, fail or na with who and when (na counts as answered, never as passed; a required step failed blocks sign-off), run_report gives the whole run with failures in full, and run_sign_off puts a name and a date on it and freezes it. RUN-YYYY-NNNN ids are sequential and never reissued.

In agent mode the verdict must come from the server: run_sign_off freezes the run with a name and a date only when every required step has passed, so an agent declaring a run clean by hand is composing an estimate the server already enforces exactly.

What you get in VS Code

The unit suite is 15 tests, 15 passing, 0 failing (node --test, node v22), covering the snapshot rule, the na-is-not-pass rule and the sign-off freeze; adversarial, concurrency, paths and contract suites sit alongside it.

Install it in VS Code

The file is .vscode/mcp.json, and the key inside it is servers.

If you also run Claude Desktop, the shortest path there is one click: purchase-requisition.mcpb from the latest release opens as an extension, with no JSON and no terminal. VS Code reads its own config, so here it is:

// .vscode/mcp.json  (the key is "servers")
{
  "servers": {
    "purchase-requisition": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/purchase-requisition/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Or from a terminal:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"purchase-requisition","command":"node","args":["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/purchase-requisition/dist/index.js"]}'

The node command above wants a built file. From a clone, once:

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.git
cd mcp-servers && npm install
npm run build -w packages/mcp-license -w servers/purchase-requisition

That writes servers/purchase-requisition/dist/index.js, and its absolute path is the one argument the config needs.

The npm packages are not published yet, so the form below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the entry becomes the day the publish lands, with nothing else changed:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"purchase-requisition","command":"npx","args":["-y","@theluckystrike/mcp-purchase-requisition"]}'

VS Code asks you to confirm you trust the server and its capabilities before it starts. Nothing runs until you answer.

Nothing is published to npm yet, so the working install paths are the ones above: the .mcpb bundle from the latest release, a clone and build, or the hosted URL.

No install: the hosted endpoint

The same server runs at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/purchase-requisition over MCP streamable HTTP, no install. Mint a free token with curl https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/token, or use a Pro key. It has no filesystem, so a file comes back as a one-hour download link.

{
  "servers": {
    "purchase-requisition": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/purchase-requisition",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <token>" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code notes worth knowing first

The top-level key is "servers", not "mcpServers". A config pasted from a Claude Desktop or Cursor README parses cleanly, contributes no servers, and gives you no error to read, which makes it the most expensive one-word mistake here. Alongside it an "inputs" array holds secrets. The newer Agent Host reads a workspace .mcp.json instead.

Free: Three requisitions, and unlimited runs of them on every tier, because capping the running of a requisition would cap the only thing a requisition is for. Deleting a requisition frees its slot and every run stays readable. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.

Questions

Why does my mcp.json do nothing?

The key is servers, not mcpServers. A config copied from a Claude Desktop README parses cleanly and contributes nothing. Rename it. On the newer Agent Host, use a workspace .mcp.json instead.

Do I have to edit the file at all?

No. code --add-mcp takes the server object on the command line, and MCP: Add Server in the palette asks whether the target is Workspace or Global.

Where do the MCP Purchase Requisition tools show up?

In Chat, behind the tools picker, once the server has started. Adding or changing one raises a prompt asking you to confirm you trust it; if the picker is empty, that prompt is usually still waiting.

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