Connect an agent

Point your coding agent at ShepAIrd and it gets the same product as the CLI: search, memory, and brief, without pasting the repo into the prompt.

Two ways to connect

Child process: The editor starts ShepAIrd itself. Use this when the client can launch a command (typical for a local desktop app).
Network: ShepAIrd is already running, and the client connects to an address. Use this when the agent is on another machine, or several clients share one instance.

stdio for a child process, HTTP for a URL

shepaird mcp --stdio --profile agent
shepaird mcp --http :8080 --profile agent
shepaird mcp tools --profile agent

mcp tools prints the tools that profile will expose, so you can confirm what the agent will see before you wire the client.

A local client launching ShepAIrd

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shepaird": {
      "command": "shepaird",
      "args": ["mcp", "--stdio", "--profile", "agent"]
    }
  }
}

Put shepaird on the PATH the editor uses, save, and restart the client. The next session can search and remember without a paste of the tree.