Spec Driven Development
MCP Server that facilitates spec-driven development workflows, not just Vibe Coding.
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Multi-agent shared brain across Claude, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Copilot, and VS Code.
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Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"thread-keeper": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"threadkeeper"
]
}
}
}Run this in your terminal
claude mcp add thread-keeper -- uvx threadkeeperPaste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"thread-keeper": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"threadkeeper"
]
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project
{
"servers": {
"thread-keeper": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"threadkeeper"
]
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
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Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.
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Multi-agent shared brain across Claude Code/Desktop, Codex, Antigravity CLI (`agy`), Copilot, and VS Code. Cross-session memory, self-improving skill loops, and inter-agent signaling — one local MCP server turns parallel agent instances into a coordinated multi-agent system instead of N isolated chats.
Every connected client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI + desktop, Antigravity CLI, Copilot, every MCP-aware VS Code extension) shares one SQLite store, one set of threads, one user model, and one learning loop that improves the skill library autonomously over time.
The brief format is dense — structural tags, opaque IDs, ~6 KB per session-start injection. Optimized for agent consumption, not human reading.
Every agent CLI starts cold. Context dies at session boundaries. Skills you taught Claude don't transfer to Codex. Threads you closed in yesterday's Antigravity chat are invisible to today's Copilot. Parallel agent instances running the same task don't know about each other and duplicate work or step on each other's writes.
thread-keeper is the substrate underneath. Three things that together make it more than a memory store:
spawn primitive launches child agents in parallel, each gets a self_cid + sees the same memory. broadcast / whisper / inbox / wait / ask / respond let concurrent sessions signal each other across CLIs. Parent / children / sibling agents become a coordinated swarm, not isolated chats.~/.claude/skills/, ~/.codex/skills/, ~/.gemini/config/skills/ for Antigravity, existing ~/.agents/skills/, extra roots from THREADKEEPER_EXTRA_SKILLS_DIRS, and ~/.threadkeeper/skills/), with lessons.md as a fallback for CLIs without a native skills loader. A managed skill write reports success only after every mirror has the expected file set and hashes; ERR mirror_partial_failure keeps the canonical copy and names only the affected consumer plus relative file. Retry safely with skill_manage(action="reconcile", name=" ").Foreground MCP servers also run a daily self-update check by default. Source checkouts fast-forward their tracked git branch and reinstall the editable package; PyPI/pipx/venv installs run pip install --upgrade in the current interpreter environment only after the latest PyPI release files have matching Integrity API provenance from the expected GitHub Trusted Publisher. Dirty or diverged git checkouts are skipped rather than overwritten. Restarts are gated on install/setup success plus a subprocess import smoke check, so a broken or unverified update is recorded but the current server keeps running. Interpreters without pip (uv-created or pipx venvs) install through uv pip install --python when uv is available. Upstream PyPI publishing is intentionally gated: green merge-to-main builds are auto-tagged, but every upload pauses for a human approval on the protected pypi GitHub Environment (a maintainer-signed annotated v* tag remains the manual override path), as described in docs/RELEASING.md.
They also run a twice-weekly installed-skill updater by default. It keeps all configured CLI skill roots in sync, adopts newer local copies installed into a non-primary root, and updates GitHub-backed skills when a tracked upstream source changes.
The shortest path — PyPI + pipx (recommended):
pipx install 'threadkeeper[semantic]' && thread-keeper-setup
thread-keeper-setup detects every CLI you have installed (Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Codex CLI + desktop / Antigravity CLI agy / Copilot / VS Code), registers the MCP server in each one's config, copies hooks to ~/.threadkeeper/hooks/, and writes a managed instructions block into each CLI's per-user instructions file (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / copilot-instructions.md — Claude Desktop and VS Code have no global instructions file, so that step is skipped for them). The generated MCP entry pins imports to this configured installation, so an agent launched inside another thread-keeper checkout cannot load that checkout's unmerged code against the live memory database.
Restart your CLI of choice. Hook-capable clients inject a brief on the first message; hookless clients such as Codex and Antigravity CLI either follow the managed instructions block and call brief() / context() before answering, or — on hosts that support MCP resources — pull the brief as the read-only memory://brief resource the host attaches automatically (see MCP primitives).
The MCP initialization response also carries concise, static lifecycle guidance: load the brief/context, open/note/close substantive threads, prefer read-only resources for host-attached context, and use dry-run plus confirmation before destructive maintenance. Hooks and the managed files remain reinforcement for clients that do not surface server instructions.
If you don't have pipx and don't want to install it:
# uv (Rust-fast Python tool runner) — no clone, single binary on PATH
uv tool install 'threadkeeper[semantic]' && thread-keeper-setup
python3 -m venv ~/.threadkeeper-venv ~/.threadkeeper-venv/bin/pip install 'threadkeeper[semantic]' ~/.threadkeeper-venv/bin/thread-keeper-setup
For development (editable install from a git checkout) or to track the bleeding edge:
# One-liner installer — clones to ~/thread-keeper, makes a venv,
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/po4erk91/thread-keeper/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --semantic
git clone https://github.com/po4erk91/thread-keeper ~/thread-keeper cd ~/thread-keeper && python3 -m venv .venv .venv/bin/pip install -e '.[semantic]' .venv/bin/thread-keeper-setup
To preview without writing anything:
thread-keeper-setup --dry-run
| CLI | MCP config | Instructions file | Hooks | Transcripts ingested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ~/.claude.json mcpServers | ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md | ~/.claude/settings.json hooks | ~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl |
| Claude Desktop | ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json mcpServers (macOS); %APPDATA%\Claude\… (Win); ~/.config/Claude/… (Linux) | none (GUI-only) | not supported by the app | none — chats live in Electron IndexedDB |
| Codex (CLI + desktop) | ~/.codex/config.toml [mcp_servers] (shared between CLI and Codex.app) | ~/.codex/AGENTS.md | not supported | ~/.codex/sessions/**/rollout-*.jsonl |
Antigravity CLI (agy) | ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json mcpServers | ~/.gemini/config/AGENTS.md | not wired yet | ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/conversations/*.db (sqlite/protobuf, read-only: user prompts and final answers) |
| Copilot | ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json mcpServers | ~/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md | ~/.copilot/hooks.json | ~/.copilot/session-store.db (sqlite) |
| VS Code | ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/mcp.json servers (macOS); %APPDATA%\Code\User\mcp.json (Win); ~/.config/Code/User/mcp.json (Linux) | none (per-workspace only) | not supported | none — extensions own their history |
Every CLI that produces parseable transcripts feeds the same dialog_messages table with a source tag, so dialog_search() finds matches regardless of where the conversation happened. Claude Desktop and the VS Code adapter are the exceptions — MCP registration only; their chats don't reach the table for now (Electron IndexedDB on the Claude Desktop side; per-extension stores on the VS Code side). Antigravity keeps one SQLite file per conversation with protobuf step payloads; thread-keeper opens it read-only (never creating WAL sidecars next to it) and keeps only user prompts and final model answers, skipping tool calls and thinking.
VS Code's user-level mcp.json is the central host that every MCP-aware VS Code extension consumes — GitHub Copilot Chat, the Anthropic Claude IDE plugin, the OpenAI Codex IDE plugin, Continue, Cline, … — so a single registration there reaches all of them at once.
Adding a new CLI = one file under threadkeeper/adapters/ implementing the CLIAdapter contract. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
thread-keeper requires MCP Python SDK 2.3 or later (mcp>=2.3.0,<3). Its stable Skills and durable Tasks extensions use the MCP 2026-07-28 extension surface, while tools, resources, prompts, annotations, structured content, elicitation, and stdio continue to use the same MCPServer instance.
MCP has three server primitives. thread-keeper uses all three, mapped to the read/act split, plus MCP elicitation for host-native confirmations:
| Primitive | Control | What thread-keeper exposes | When to use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tools | model-controlled (may act) | the full surface — brief, note, spawn, search, curator_review, wikilink_health, … | the agent decides to call them |
| Resources | application-controlled, read-only | memory://brief, memory://context, memory://dashboard, memory://agent-status | the host attaches/pulls them automatically; capable hosts may subscribe |
| Prompts | user-controlled templates | review_recent_threads, run_library_curation, audit_threadkeeper | the user runs them (Claude Code: /mcp__thread-keeper__ ) |
| MCP App | host-rendered, display-only | open_dashboard → ui://thread-keeper/dashboard | a host that advertises MCP Apps opens the sandboxed dashboard |
Resources back the genuinely read-only memory views with the same render functions as the matching tools, so the content is identical — memory://brief is brief(), memory://context is context(), and so on. The win is for hookless CLIs: instead of depending on the agent *remembering* to call brief() (agents focused on their task often skip it), a resource lets the host surface memory as attachable / @-mentionable context through a mechanical channel. The brief resource renders lean and agent-status uses a cached snapshot, so an automatic host pull is side-effect-free.
search and dialog_search also return structured hits and resource_link blocks. Read a hit's resource_uri with resources/read to inspect its evidence without
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