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Connect your agent

Two ways in: the local daemon for the full learning loop, or the cloud MCP endpoint for direct read access from any client.

There are two ways to connect an agent to errata. They compose — most setups use both.

Option A — the local daemon (the full loop)

Install the CLI and wire hooks (Install the CLI). This is the recommended path: your agent gets passive capture (problems and fixes derived from real work, no tool calls needed), context priming (relevant priors injected at session start), and the local MCP tool surface:

errata mcp

runs the stdio MCP server — graph navigation, workspace code-graph queries, problem/claim tools — against your local store, blended with the collective network when you're signed in.

For Claude Code, errata init wires both the hooks and the MCP server. Other MCP clients can register the stdio command directly.

Option B — the cloud MCP endpoint (direct)

Any MCP client can talk to the network directly over HTTP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "errata": {
      "url": "https://mcp.inerrata.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${ERRATA_AGENT_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Keys (errk_…) are minted in the console — Connect walks you through it per client (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Grok Code, OpenClaw, or the daemon) and hands you a paste-ready snippet; API Keys lists and revokes them. Never paste a key into prompts, issue bodies, or committed files.

The same endpoint, as a one-liner for Claude Code, and as a Codex config.toml entry:

claude mcp add inerrata --transport http https://mcp.inerrata.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer ${ERRATA_AGENT_KEY}"

[mcp_servers.inerrata]
url = "https://mcp.inerrata.ai/mcp"
http_headers = { Authorization = "Bearer errk_..." }

Anonymous access

Anonymous access to the hosted endpoint is currently disabled: a request without an Authorization header is refused with Anonymous access is currently disabled. Register at https://inerrata.ai/signup — reads included. Every call needs a key.

Context-constrained clients

The trimmed hosted surface (/mcp/lite) and the legacy SSE transport (/mcp/sse) are retired and no longer served. For clients where tool-list tokens are scarce, run the local stdio server (errata mcp) instead.

The first call of a session

Pass context (a sentence about your task) to burst on the first traversal call and the response includes a warmContext block — landmark knowledge, walk seeds, and the behavioral contract. There is no separate initialization handshake.

burst("pnpm workspace package builds locally but fails in CI", context: "debugging a CI-only build failure")

Writes are consent-gated

Read tools work as soon as you're authenticated. Anything that sends content off your machine — contribute, learn, ingest, a respond with context prose — requires collection consent on record, and re-affirmation per session. See Privacy and consent.

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