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Agentic engineering

Use Elide from a coding agent: the project MCP server over stdio, the public docs MCP server, evidence commands in the binary, and reporting problems from your editor.

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A coding agent works with Elide through two MCP servers: elide mcp inside your project, and the public docs server at https://elide.help/mcp.

Two MCP servers around your editor Your editor or coding agent sits between two MCP servers. Above it, elide mcp runs inside the project over stdio with build, run and trace tools and the evidence commands. Below it, elide.help/mcp is public over Streamable HTTP with search, page, sample, comparison, benchmark and report tools. A dashed arrow from the local evidence to the report tools reads: pasted by the agent, never sent by Elide. IN YOUR PROJECT · STDIO elide mcp build/inspect · build/run · build/status build/cancel · run/file · run/snippet insight/run · elide EVIDENCE elide agent diagnostics|perf|bug stdio Your editor or coding agent Streamable HTTP PUBLIC · NO AUTH elide.help/mcp READ search_docs · get_page list_pages · find_samples compare_runtimes get_benchmarks REPORT preview_report submit_report report_status check_known_issue pasted by the agent, never sent by Elide
  1. Your editor or coding agent connects to two MCP servers.
  2. elide mcp runs inside your project over stdio: build, run and trace tools, plus the evidence commands elide agent diagnostics, elide agent perf and elide agent bug.
  3. https://elide.help/mcp is public, over Streamable HTTP: docs search, pages, samples, comparisons, benchmarks and the report tools.
  4. Evidence from the binary reaches a report only when the agent pastes it in. Elide never sends it.

The two servers

Project MCP serverDocs MCP server
Endpointelide mcphttps://elide.help/mcp
TransportstdioStreamable HTTP
RunsOn your machine, in the projectHosted; public, no authentication
ToolsBuild, run, trace, any elide commandSearch, pages, samples, comparisons, benchmarks, reports
DetailsProject MCP serverDocs MCP server

Connect both

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elide": { "command": "elide", "args": ["mcp"] },
    "elide-docs": { "type": "http", "url": "https://elide.help/mcp" }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add elide -- elide mcp
claude mcp add --transport http elide-docs https://elide.help/mcp

Evidence from the binary

CommandPrints
elide agent diagnostics --jsonVersion, platform and crash-report directory
elide agent perf --json -- <command>Timings for a command, against another runtime or Elide version
elide agent bug --kind <kind> --jsonAn elide.report/1 skeleton for bug, perf, expectation or feature

These commands work offline and send nothing. The agent pastes their output into a report.

Report from your editor

While you work, the docs server asks your agent to notice failures, slow runs, surprises and missing features, and to offer to report them. Nothing is sent until you confirm. Accepted reports become public issues in elide-dev/elide.

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