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Such a cool idea! Does this work in RStudio also? I had a little trouble getting it to work on my Windows machine with Claude Desktop. Maybe I should try with Positron?

Please do file an issue if you struggled to get your config working! I would anticipate any of Windows/Linux/macOS should work, as well as R processes from Positron / RStudio / the command line.

have you tried this with any of the copilot-ish extensions in Positron like windsurf? (Also just saw they intend to open-source the actual copilot extension so hopefully I can just use that in Positron at some point!)

Is there a way to sync this up with @microsoft.com copilot?

I'd be interested to try that out! Do you use copilot in VS Code? This might do the trick: docs.github.com/en/copilot/c... ...where the `command` and `args` could mirror the Claude Desktop setup in the acquaint homepage.

Thanks I will have to try it out!

Hey Simon! This is awesome, really excited to try this out! Are there any risks with sensitive information or environment variables being passed in to the prompts/metadata via the MCP server and do you have any recommendations for using the MCP server safely?

Trying to check it out, but when I tried to add to claude code I got an error: claude mcp add -s "user" r-acquaint Rscript -e "acquaint::mcp_server()" Invalid environment variable format: acquaint::mcp_server(), environment variables should be added as: -e KEY1=value1 -e KEY2=value2

Woops, thank you! Just corrected on GitHub.

Yup, I put it in Claude and it said "--" instead of "-".