Chapter VII

Tools

Index of tools shipped from this stack - MCPs, dashboards, helpers - and how they fit together.

Recipes in this chapter

Brigade

Install and operate the cookbook's agent workspace shape instead of copying it by hand: bootstrap files, per-writer memory handoffs, content guards, MCP sync, local work loops, operator checks,…

MCP Catalog

Every MCP server published from this stack, what each one wraps, and where it fits. Most exist because a service the agent needed to talk to did not have a maintained MCP yet, so I wrote one.

MCP READMEs: All Five Clients

Every MCP repo in the catalog ships with the same five-block README. If a setup block is missing, half your potential users walk away. Five clients, one shape, copy-paste tested against each.

OpsDeck

A self-hosted dashboard that surfaces the parts of the stack you'd otherwise check by opening five terminals. Twenty routes, a companion API on port 8005, and one place to inspect projects, services,…

Repo Redeploy

One cron job, every ten minutes, watches your own MCP servers and CLI tools for new commits on main and quietly redeploys them in place. Push from anywhere, the change is live within ten minutes.

Skillet

The skills rack: installable agent skills for auditing, improving, and shipping repos. The flagship is line-check, a repo audit that ends in a leverage-sorted improvement backlog instead of a wall of…