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Use Forkmate in Continue

Continue supports remote MCP servers in agent mode. Add Forkmate as a streamable-http server with your key in its request headers.

Needs a key. Continue runs on your computer, so it connects with a personal key instead of a sign-in. Make a key in Forkmate · How keys work

No Forkmate account yet? Create one free first. It takes under a minute. You make your key there.

Example: in Continue, with Forkmate connected

I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.

Logged to Forkmate229 kcal
Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiled · 2 large eggs (100 g)Bread, white · 1 slice (28 g)

Logged. Want me to total today so far?

Set up Forkmate in Continue

Forkmate’s server URL
https://mcp.forkmate.ai/
Streamable HTTP, with your personal key in the Authorization header.
  1. Make a keyIn Forkmate, open Settings → Keys for local apps (https://app.forkmate.ai/#keys), name the key after Continue, pick when it expires and click Make key. Copy it: Forkmate shows it once. How keys work: forkmate.ai/connect/keys/.
  2. Add the serverAdd the block below to ~/.continue/config.yaml under mcpServers, with your key in place of fmk_your_key_here.
  3. Give your OK onceThe first time you log, Forkmate asks once for your OK to store your food diary. Agree the way it asks, in the chat or through the link it gives you to agree on the web, then log the meal again if it wasn’t saved.
  4. Log your first mealIn Continue (agent mode), say “I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.” It logs the meal with calories and macros to your Forkmate diary.

~/.continue/config.yaml

mcpServers:
  - name: Forkmate
    type: streamable-http
    url: https://mcp.forkmate.ai/
    requestOptions:
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer fmk_your_key_here

Continue’s config reference lists requestOptions, with headers, for streamable-http servers.

What you need

  • A free Forkmate account (sign up). There is no paid plan.
  • MCP tools work in Continue’s agent mode only.

Checked against these sources: Continue docs: MCP, Continue docs: config.yaml reference. Continue changes its menus often; if yours looks different, trust what it shows.

What to say first

Talk to Continue the way you’d tell a friend:

  • “I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.”
  • “How many calories have I had today?”
  • “Make the toast two slices.”
  • “What did I eat this week?”

It logs the meal with calories, protein, carbs and fat to your diary at app.forkmate.ai.

Good to know in Continue

  • Each tool has a policy: Ask First (the default), Automatic or Excluded. Change it from the tools icon in the chat input.
  • You can copy a JSON MCP config from another tool into your workspace’s .continue/mcpServers/ folder.

Checked against Continue docs: customize agent tools, Continue docs: MCP.

Forkmate shortcuts

Forkmate comes with ready-made requests for the everyday jobs: log a meal, fix the last entry, see what’s left today, log your usual, hit your protein, a weekly check-in. We haven’t found MCP shortcuts (prompts) in Continue’s menus or documentation, so type or paste the request instead.

  • Log a meal (log-meal)
    “Log this to my Forkmate diary: two eggs and toast with butter”
  • Fix my last entry (fix-last-entry)
    “Fix the last thing I logged in Forkmate: it was 2 eggs, not 3”
  • What's left today (today-so-far)
    “Show me today so far in Forkmate: my calories, protein, carbs and fat.”
  • Log my usual (log-my-usual)
    “Log my usual breakfast to Forkmate.”
  • Hit my protein today (hit-protein)
    “How much protein have I had today in Forkmate, and how far am I from my target of 120 g? Suggest a few foods for my remaining meals and snacks that would close the gap, using my food profile and the foods I usually eat.”
  • Weekly check-in (week-review)
    “Give me a check-in on my last 7 days in Forkmate (get_range): calories, protein, carbs and fat per day and on average, how many days I logged, and the foods I ate most.”
  • Move my MyFitnessPal history (import-myfitnesspal)
    “How do I move my food diary history from MyFitnessPal to Forkmate? Walk me through exporting my data for free and importing it with the guided importer described at https://forkmate.ai/migrate-from-myfitnesspal/. Don't log anything yet.”

Shortcut or not, Forkmate sends Continue the same logging rules when it connects: log your own words, keep your amounts, and look foods up before estimating.

Start logging from Continue

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