Kira MCP Server

Skills and Scars for AI agents - your agent records its failures and never repeats them.

Local serverstdio

What is the Kira MCP server?

Kira MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Skills and Scars for AI agents - your agent records its failures and never repeats them.

What you get

Every failed retry, every exception, every "wait — we hit this exact wall last week" is knowledge your agent throws away when the session ends. Kira keeps it. One MCP install and your agent records what burned it (a scar), sees its scars before it works again, and stops paying for the same mistake twice.

What the assistant can call

Once Kira is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • Catalog — kira_lookup
  • Community — kira_share_scar
  • Feedback — kira_report

Configuration and credentials

You will need 3 environment variables: KIRA_TELEMETRY_URL, KIRA_KEY, KIRA_REMOTE_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.

Setting it up

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.

Choosing this one

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Kira's toolset — Catalog, Community, Feedback — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by aibenyclaude-coder; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Kira's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the kira mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Catalogkira_lookup
Communitykira_share_scar
Feedbackkira_report

How to install the Kira MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kira": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "kira-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
KIRA_TELEMETRY_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes
KIRA_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
KIRA_REMOTE_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • Use Kira to Catalog.
  • Use Kira to Community.
  • Use Kira to Feedback.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Kira to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 3 tools (Catalog, Community, Feedback) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Kira directly.