cairn

agents

Give the editor the same commands

Give each seat a name like grok-cairn. Use that name on one project only. Names that start with e2e- are for tests and are not kept.

cairn bootstrap

That writes three things: a cairn entry in .mcp.json, a marked section in AGENTS.md, and four short onboarding memories. The editor starts the server only after you trust the folder and reload MCP.

Until that happens, the cairn command in the terminal still works. A GUI editor may not see ~/.local/bin. Put the full path to cairn-mcp in .mcp.json if the tool does not start.

The tools match the commands: store_memory, retrieve_memory, list_memories, get_memory, archive_memory, restore_memory, plus howto, whoami, gc, export, import, and ingest. cairn serve is not a tool.