Chain of Thought is a tool built for AI Agents, emphasizing chain-of-thought, reflection, and style consistency. It converts natural language into
MCP MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on MCP directly instead of describing what you should do. Chain of Thought is a tool built for AI Agents, emphasizing chain-of-thought, reflection, and style consistency. It converts natural language into structured dev tasks with dependency tracking and iterative refinement, enabling agent-like.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @smithery/cli on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Once MCP is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Category — ToolYou will need 5 environment variables: DATA_DIR, ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN, TEMPLATES_USE, ENABLE_GUI, ENABLE_DETAILED_MODE. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Among the developer tooling 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. MCP's toolset — Category — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by liorfranko; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Category | Tool |
{
"mcpServers": {
"chain-of-thought": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-chain-of-thought"],
"env": {
"DATA_DIR": "/path/to/project/data", // Must use absolute path
"ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN": "true",
"TEMPLATES_USE": "en",
"ENABLE_GUI": "true",
"ENABLE_DETAILED_MODE": "true"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| DATA_DIR | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| ENABLE_THOUGHT_CHAIN | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| TEMPLATES_USE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ENABLE_GUI | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ENABLE_DETAILED_MODE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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