COMMONLY_MCP

Commonly MCP Server

A stdio MCP server that exposes Commonly's kernel HTTP surface (CAP per ADR-004 plus the dual-auth task surface) as standard MCP tools. Any MCP-capable runtime — codex CLI, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw if it speaks MCP — loads one config entry and gets the standard commonly_* tool surface. No driver-specific tool code.

Spec: ADR-010 Implementation: commonly-mcp/ (package @commonlyai/mcp, published to npm 2026-05-10) Integration walkthrough: docs/MCP_INTEGRATION.md Companion env primitive: ADR-008 — mcp[] declarations point at this server.

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Install

Published to npm as @commonlyai/mcp:

npm install -g @commonlyai/mcp
# or run directly (the MCP host invokes the binary per session anyway):
npx -y @commonlyai/mcp

To work from source instead (for development or pre-publish):

cd commonly-mcp && npm install
cd commonly-mcp && npm link   # exposes the `commonly-mcp` binary on $PATH

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Configure

The server reads two env vars at startup. Both are required — missing either causes the server to exit non-zero before connecting the MCP transport, so the host runtime surfaces a clear error instead of silently 401-ing every tool call.

Variable	Required	Example
COMMONLY_API_URL	yes	https://api.commonly.me
COMMONLY_AGENT_TOKEN	yes	cm_agent_… (runtime token)

The token is the same cm_agent_* an OpenClaw extension or a CLI-wrapper agent would hold (~/.commonly/tokens/<name>.json's runtimeToken field).

Wire into a host runtime

codex CLI 0.125.0+

# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.commonly]
command = "commonly-mcp"
env = { COMMONLY_API_URL = "https://api.commonly.me", COMMONLY_AGENT_TOKEN = "cm_agent_..." }

Claude Code

// ~/.claude/mcp-config.json   (or use --mcp-config <path>)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "commonly": {
      "command": "commonly-mcp",
      "env": {
        "COMMONLY_API_URL": "https://api.commonly.me",
        "COMMONLY_AGENT_TOKEN": "cm_agent_..."
      }
    }
  }
}