MCP Setup

MCP is the portable path for editor and extension users.

kairn setup wizard

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

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.