All components are designed for modularity, minimalism, and functional programming style.
Connect Agent Loop to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. All components are designed for modularity, minimalism, and functional programming style. The agent loop mcp server is what makes that connection.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Drop — in Python modules** (pure functions, functional programming style)Auto-discovered — Just place your .py file in agent_loop/tools/ (built-in) or ~/.config/agent-loop/tools/ (user tools)bash — Execute bash commandssympy — Perform symbolic mathematics operations using SymPycli_plot — Render advanced terminal charts and plots using plotextfilesystem — Read, create, update, append, delete files with UTF-8 encodinglist_dir — List the contents of a directory for quick file discoverycodebase_search — Semantic code search for relevant code snippets in the projectfile_search — Fast fuzzy file search by filename or path fragmentgrep_search — Search for exact strings or regex patterns in filescurl — Make HTTP requests using curlproject_inspector — Inspect the current project directory and preview source filesConfiguration is passed through the environment: BRAVE_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, JIRA_BASE_URL, JIRA_API_TOKEN, CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL, CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Agent Loop's toolset — Drop, Auto-discovered, bash and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by AlessandroAnnini; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Drop | in Python modules** (pure functions, functional programming style) |
| Auto-discovered | Just place your .py file in agent_loop/tools/ (built-in) or ~/.config/agent-loop/tools/ (user tools) |
| bash | Execute bash commands |
| sympy | Perform symbolic mathematics operations using SymPy |
| cli_plot | Render advanced terminal charts and plots using plotext |
| filesystem | Read, create, update, append, delete files with UTF-8 encoding |
| list_dir | List the contents of a directory for quick file discovery |
| codebase_search | Semantic code search for relevant code snippets in the project |
| file_search | Fast fuzzy file search by filename or path fragment |
| grep_search | Search for exact strings or regex patterns in files |
| curl | Make HTTP requests using curl |
| project_inspector | Inspect the current project directory and preview source files |
| kubectl | Run kubectl commands to interact with a Kubernetes cluster |
| aws_cli | Run AWS CLI v2 read-only commands to interact with AWS services |
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"],
"env": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "..." }
},
"mcp-obsidian": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-obsidian", "/path/to/obsidian-vault/"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| BRAVE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| OPENAI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| JIRA_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| JIRA_API_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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