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magents MCP server

Let your AI see and continue the work happening in your other coding agent chats.

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magents is a helper that connects the coding agents you already use, like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok. It lets one agent read what another agent was doing, send a message into a live chat, or start a fresh chat for a separate task. It is handy if you switch between agents and are tired of copying context by hand.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat with you in the window you have open. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to something else. This one connects your AI to the coding agent sessions already saved on your computer, so it can look them up, read them, and pass messages between them. You just ask in plain words, and the helper does the running around.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like what was Claude working on, or tell Codex to pick up where Grok left off. Your AI sends that request to magents. magents looks at the sessions saved on your machine, finds the right one, and reads a short summary of it. Then it hands that summary back to your AI, or sends a message into the other live chat for you. You get the answer or the handoff in your current chat, without copying and pasting anything.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “Hand this off to Grok and have it keep going.”, on your own computer the magents MCP server works with your computer, and you get back summary shown in your open chat.

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What you can do with it

List the coding agent sessions running or recently active on your machine
Read a short handoff summary of what another session was doing
Search across your saved transcripts for a phrase or topic
Send a message into another live agent chat without leaving yours
Hand off your current session into another live chat so it continues the same work
Start a fresh headless session for a task that can run on its own
Look up files another session edited

Try asking your AI

“What was Claude working on in the disaster recovery branch?”
“Hand this off to Grok and tell it to continue from here.”
“Search my recent sessions for anything about dedicated databases.”
“Start a Codex session to run the test suite in a separate folder and report back.”

What it gives back to you

You get short summaries, lists of sessions, search results, and the paths of files another session touched. When you send a message or hand off, magents tells you whether the delivery was accepted, not whether the other agent finished. Everything shows up as normal chat text in the window you are already using.

Before you start

What you need

macOS or Linux (some features only work on Unix)
At least one supported coding agent installed, like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Grok
The magents program installed (Homebrew, apt, a downloaded file, or built from source)
A restart of your agent session after install so the new tools appear

Good to know

This tool can read your saved agent transcripts and send messages into your live chats, so use it only on machines and projects where that is okay.

Install it with your AI

Add magents MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

Sign in to get the install prompt

Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check magents MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.