MCP support

[kofron]

hey @milesj - first of all, thanks for building the best monorepo tooling around.

I'd like to add an MCP server so that agents can leverage moon to learn about project structure, run tests, etc etc.

Does that belong as a plugin? If so, should I open a PR into the official plugins repo, or should I build a 3rd party plugin?

Thanks!

[milesj]

I don't really understand what you're asking for here?

Most of that information can be derived from running moon commands. I don't see why there needs to be an MCP server for it.

[kofron]

It's much easier to work with and more portable than having to re-encode information about moon in different agent contexts - this would let me e.g. smoothly integrate moon with claude code / cursor / whatever while I'm working on a repo.

I gather from your answer that this is the sort of thing that should get built as a 3rd party plugin - let me know if that's off base.

[milesj]

Yeah, I don't want this in core. I have no plans for supporting any AI in moon.

But I'm still confused on what kind of information you're looking for? Some concrete examples would be useful.

The moon commands provide everything you need, while a plugin will not.

[milesj]

I've been reading up more on this, specifically stuff like this: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/chat/mcp-servers

Is that basically what you're asking for?