MCP

Model Context Protocol

Flowly speaks MCP both ways. Connect Flowly to any MCP server and the agent gains its tools — or run Flowly itself as an MCP server that Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code can read from.

What MCP gives you

MCP is an open standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data. An MCP server exposes a set of tools; an MCP client calls them. Flowly is both.

Connect any server

Point Flowly at any MCP server — local (npx / uvx) or remote (HTTP / SSE, with OAuth) — and the agent calls its tools like any built-in.

Run Flowly as a server

flowly mcp serve exposes your conversation history to any MCP client over stdio — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, another agent.

Safe by default

OSV malware checks, filtered subprocess environments, credential redaction, a circuit breaker, and OS-level sandboxing wrap every server.

One-command installs

A curated catalog of version-pinned servers (Context7, GitHub, Linear, Playwright, …) you install with a single command.

Quick start

Browse the catalog, install a server, and start using it:

bash

flowly mcp catalog              # browse curated, ready-to-install servers
flowly mcp install context7     # install one (it probes the connection)
flowly mcp list                 # see what's configured
flowly mcp test context7        # connect + list its tools

Start a new session and the agent has the server's tools — for Context7, that's mcp_context7_resolve_library_id and mcp_context7_query_docs. In the terminal chat, run /mcp for the same thing with arrow keys.

Changes apply at agent boot

MCP servers load when the agent starts. After adding or toggling one, restart the gateway (flowly restart) or start a new flowly agent / TUI session. The /mcp modal restarts the gateway for you.

Two directions

Flowly as a client — the common case. You add MCP servers and the agent uses their tools. Connecting servers →

Flowly as a server — the other direction. flowly mcp serve turns Flowly into an MCP server so other agents can read your conversation history and (with --allow-writes) send messages on your behalf. Flowly as an MCP server →

Next steps

Connecting servers

Catalog, custom servers, OAuth, the /mcp modal

Flowly as an MCP server

Read your history from Claude Desktop / Cursor

CLI reference

Every flowly mcp command

Security & config

The safety model + mcpServers reference