MCP Setup

MCP is the portable path for editor and extension users.

If Kairn is not installed yet:

npm install -g usekairn@beta
cd /path/to/repo

Then initialize Kairn in the repo:

kairn init

Choose the MCP target for your client: VS Code/Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, or generic MCP.

The explicit advanced form is kairn setup wizard.

Kairn runs locally as an MCP server. The client connects to that local command, so there is no hosted Kairn server involved.

Use:

kairn bench mcp-smoke

to verify the protocol path.