Agents (MCP)

Neurowire ships an MCP server, @neurowire/mcp, so an LLM agent can read feeds, follow journals, and verify taps directly. Results default to NWF, the most compact format, which keeps an agent's context small.

Claude Code plugin

The plugin bundles the server and two skills (following feeds, authoring a tap), so one install gives an agent both the tools and the know-how:

/plugin marketplace add starside-io/claude-plugins
/plugin install neurowire@starside

Any MCP client

The server speaks stdio. Point your client at:

npx -y @neurowire/mcp

For Claude Code without the plugin:

claude mcp add neurowire -- npx -y @neurowire/mcp

For a client configured with JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, and similar):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "neurowire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@neurowire/mcp"],
      "env": { "NEUROWIRE_MCP_ALLOW": "github.com,simonwillison.net,claude.com" }
    }
  }
}

Configuration

Variable	Default	Purpose
NEUROWIRE_MCP_ALLOW	(unset)	Comma separated hosts that caller-supplied URLs may fetch. Unset allows every host.
NEUROWIRE_MESHES	(unset)	Extra mesh directories, searched before ~/.config/neurowire/meshes.
NEUROWIRE_CONSTRUCTS	(unset)	Extra construct directories, searched before ~/.config/neurowire/constructs.
NEUROWIRE_JOURNAL	~/.config/neurowire/journal	Where the journal tools read from.
NEUROWIRE_TAPS	(unset)	Extra tap files or directories, as for the CLI.

What an agent can do

• Answer "what shipped this week?" with fetch_mesh on the bundled ai-news mesh, or query with since: "7d".
• Follow an archive over time. Keep a journal fresh with the CLI (neurowire --mesh ai-news.json --journal ai --watch), then have the agent call whats_new and store the cursor it returns. The next call yields exactly what arrived.
• Read a site with no feed. propose_tap drafts a tap and verify_tap gates it. The agent can iterate on selectors, but only a passing template counts, and nothing is installed. See Taps.
• Answer questions about Neurowire itself with search_docs, which reads the published llms.txt index.

The full tool list, input fields, and result conventions are in the @neurowire/mcp reference.

Docs for agents

The docs site publishes a flattened, token-efficient copy of itself for any agent, MCP or not:

• /llms.txt: the table of contents.
• /llms-full.txt: every page in one file.