Planning and orchestration for AI-driven software development
Planning and orchestration for AI-driven software development. The agent pm mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 3 defined tools rather than through you.
AgentPM is a planning and orchestration system for AI-driven software development. Installed locally as an MCP server, it integrates with any IDE that supports Anthropic's Model Context Protocol specification, including Cursor, Augment, VS Code Copilot, Cline and Roo.
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.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverCursor — Add the following to your project's .cursor/mcp.json file (or install globally at ~/.cursor/mcp.json)Augment — Add the following to your VS-Code Augment User Settings file (CMD+SHIFT+P > Augment: Edit Settings > Edit in settings.json): ~/Library/ApplicationYou will need 5 environment variables: PROJECT_ROOT, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, PERPLEXITY_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, PERPLEXITY_BASE_URL. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Among the knowledge and memory options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Agent Pm's toolset — Prerequisites, Cursor, Augment — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by gannonh; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Agent Pm's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Cursor | Add the following to your project's .cursor/mcp.json file (or install globally at ~/.cursor/mcp.json). |
| Augment | Add the following to your VS-Code Augment User Settings file (CMD+SHIFT+P > Augment: Edit Settings > Edit in settings.json): ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"agent-pm": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@gannonh/agent-pm@latest"
],
"env": {
"PROJECT_ROOT": "/path/to/project/root/",
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "sk-your-anthropic-api-key",
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-your-perplexity-api-key"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PROJECT_ROOT | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| PERPLEXITY_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
A knowledge graph your assistant keeps between sessions — entities, relations and observations that persist.
Kill hallucinated APIs — version-accurate, up-to-date library documentation injected straight into context.
Your workspace, on speaking terms with AI — search, read and write Notion pages and databases.
A structured scratchpad for hard problems — stepwise reasoning with revisions, branches and visible logic.
Symbol-level code navigation, refactoring and memory for coding agents — the IDE brain your assistant has been missing.
Chat with your second brain — search, read and write vault notes through the Local REST API.