MCP & harness install

Roundtable ships an MCP server as a subcommand of the same binary — no separate package to install. Any harness that speaks the Model Context Protocol can call the council as a tool.

Run the MCP server

roundtable mcp serve

This speaks JSON-RPC over stdio and exposes one tool:

roundtable(question, heads?, rounds?, research?)  ->  markdown transcript

A harness launches it with:

{
  "command": "roundtable",
  "args": ["mcp", "serve"]
}

Print that block any time with:

roundtable mcp config

Auto-wire your harness

roundtable install detects the coding harnesses on your machine and wires each one — idempotently. It backs up existing config first and never clobbers your settings.

roundtable install                          # interactive: pick which to wire
roundtable install --harness cursor,codex   # wire specific harnesses
roundtable install --all                    # wire everything detected

Supported in v1:

Harness	What gets wired
Claude Code	The Roundtable skill (~/.agents/skills/roundtable/) and the MCP server.
Cursor	MCP server entry in ~/.cursor/mcp.json.
Codex CLI	[mcp_servers.roundtable] in ~/.codex/config.toml.
generic	Prints the MCP JSON for you to paste anywhere.

note

Harness config paths and formats drift between releases. roundtable install verifies the current format at run time; if something looks off, fall back to the generic JSON from roundtable mcp config.

Using it from the harness

Once wired, ask your assistant to "convene the roundtable" / "ask the council" and it calls the roundtable tool, passing the question through. The transcript comes back inline. All the ask flags map onto the tool's arguments (heads, rounds, research).