Michael Suchacz 8d4d0b35dd feat: add Coder Agents chat tools to the MCP toolsdk (#28025)
Exposes the experimental Coder Agents chats API through the MCP tool
registry, so MCP clients (the hosted `/api/experimental/mcp/http` server
and `coder exp mcp server`) can start and drive server-side coding
agents.

New tools in `codersdk/toolsdk`, all thin wrappers over existing
`codersdk.ExperimentalClient` methods:

| Tool | Wraps |
|---|---|
| `coder_create_chat` | `CreateChat` (prompt, optional org, model
config, labels) |
| `coder_get_chat` | `GetChat` (status, last error, last turn summary,
workspace, files) |
| `coder_get_chat_messages` | `GetChatMessages` (user-facing parts,
chronological, cursor pagination, queued prompts) |
| `coder_send_chat_message` | `CreateChatMessage` (queue or interrupt
busy behavior) |
| `coder_interrupt_chat` | `InterruptChat` |
| `coder_archive_chat` | `UpdateChat` with `archived: true` |
| `coder_list_chat_model_configs` | `ListChatModelConfigs` (enabled
configs with default flag) |

Both MCP servers register tools from `toolsdk.All`, so no additional
wiring is needed. Responses are trimmed to what an MCP caller needs (IDs
as strings, user-facing transcripts) rather than full SDK payloads. No
new endpoints and no database changes.

Also adds MCP
[prompts](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/prompts)
for the chat workflows, defined once in `codersdk/toolsdk` and
registered by both servers:

| Prompt | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `coder_agents_delegate` | delegate a task to a Coder Agents chat and
monitor it to completion |
| `coder_agents_check` | check the status and recent activity of an
existing chat |

Each prompt declares the tools its workflow needs; the stdio server
skips prompts whose tools are excluded by `--allowed-tools`.

Tests run the tools against a chat-enabled coderdtest instance (fake
OpenAI-compatible provider plus in-process AI bridge), covering the full
lifecycle, an interrupt against a blocked turn, pagination cursors,
permission-dependent model config filtering, and argument validation.
Prompt coverage spans SDK rendering, the hosted
`prompts/list`/`prompts/get` round trip, and the stdio server including
allowlist gating.

> Mux created this PR on Mike's behalf.
2026-08-13 18:32:47 +02:00
2022-04-04 11:55:06 -05:00

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Coder is a self-hosted platform for cloud development environments and AI coding agents. Workspaces are defined with Terraform, connected through a secure Wireguard® tunnel, and automatically shut down when not used. Coder Agents runs a native AI coding agent whose loop executes in the control plane on your infrastructure, with no API keys in workspaces.

  • Define cloud development environments in Terraform
    • EC2 VMs, Kubernetes Pods, Docker Containers, etc.
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Quickstart

The most convenient way to try Coder is to install it on your local machine and experiment with provisioning cloud development environments using Docker (works on Linux, macOS, and Windows).

# First, install Coder
curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh

# Start the Coder server (caches data in ~/.cache/coder)
coder server

# Navigate to http://localhost:3000 to create your initial user,
# create a Docker template and provision a workspace

Install

The easiest way to install Coder is to use the install script for Linux and macOS. For Windows, use the latest ..._installer.exe file from GitHub Releases.

curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh

You can run the install script with --dry-run to see the commands that will be used to install without executing them. Run the install script with --help for additional flags.

See install for additional methods.

Once installed, you can start a production deployment with a single command:

# Automatically sets up an external access URL on *.try.coder.app
coder server

# Requires a PostgreSQL instance (version 13 or higher) and external access URL
coder server --postgres-url <url> --access-url <url>

Use coder --help to get a list of flags and environment variables. See the install guides for a complete tutorial.

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Browse the documentation or visit a specific section below:

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