Compatible with any MCP-capable client: Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex CLI, and others.

The server exposes three tools with a clear separation of concerns:

• generate_agents_md — main entry point. Runs the analysis pipeline internally, embeds writing rules into the payload, and returns chunked read instructions to your client.
• scan_codebase — standalone context tool for when you want deep codebase understanding without generating any file.
• read_payload_chunk — streams the payload back in chunks regardless of which tool produced it.

No large data travels over the MCP wire.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Option A — pip install + setup wizard
  • Option B — uvx
• Usage
  • Tools
  • Tool Parameters
• What Gets Generated
• How Incremental Scanning Works
  • How Large Payloads Are Streamed
  • Cache and Payload Location
• Project Configuration
  • Options
  • Environment Variables
  • Project Size Profiles
• What the Analysis Detects
• Credits

Installation

Requirements: Python 3.11+, Git, and any MCP-compatible client.

See INSTALLATION.md for the full guide including prerequisites and troubleshooting.

Option A — pip install + setup wizard (recommended)

pip install agents-md-generator
agents-md-generator setup

The setup wizard detects your installed clients, asks whether to configure globally or per-project, and patches the config files automatically. Supports Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, and Codex CLI.

Option B — uvx (no install needed)

If you have uv installed, uvx runs the package without a prior install step. Add the entry manually to your client's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agents-md": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["agents-md-generator"]
    }
  }
}

For Claude Code specifically:

claude mcp add agents-md -- uvx agents-md-generator

claude mcp add defaults to --scope local (current project only). Add -s user to register it for all projects.

Usage

Once registered, ask your AI client:

"Generate the AGENTS.md for this project"

The client will call generate_agents_md automatically. To scan a different directory:

"Generate the AGENTS.md for the project at /path/to/project"

Tools

Tool Parameters

What Gets Generated

The generated AGENTS.md follows the agents.md open standard. It is written as a README for AI agents, not as documentation for humans. Sections include:

Sections with no detected data are omitted entirely.

How Incremental Scanning Works

1. First run (cold start) — all git-tracked source files are parsed with tree-sitter and cached
2. Subsequent runs — only files whose SHA-256 hash changed since the last scan are re-parsed
3. Semantic diff — for modified files, only changed public symbols are included in the payload
4. No source changes? — the tool stops and asks whether you want to improve the existing AGENTS.md content anyway
5. Private symbols and test file internals are excluded from both cache and payload — only the public API surface matters for AGENTS.md

How Large Payloads Are Streamed

For large codebases the analysis payload can be too big to return inline over the MCP wire. The server handles this transparently through read_payload_chunk.

This flow is pure MCP — no filesystem access required from the client side. Any MCP-compatible client can follow it.

Cache and Payload Location

All runtime artifacts are stored outside your project, in the user cache directory:

~/.cache/agents-md-generator/<project-hash>/cache.json  ← incremental scan cache

The <project-hash> is a SHA-256 of the project's absolute path — unique per project. Nothing is written to your repository.

Note: The server also writes a temporary payload.json to this directory during analysis, but it is managed entirely by the read_payload_chunk tool and deleted automatically after the last chunk is read. You never need to access it directly.

Project Configuration

Create .agents-config.json at your project root to customize behavior. This file is optional — all fields have defaults, and you can commit it to share settings with your team.

{
  "project_size": "medium",
  "exclude": [
    "**/node_modules/**",
    "**/bin/**",
    "**/obj/**",
    "**/.git/**",
    "**/dist/**",
    "**/build/**",
    "**/__pycache__/**",
    "**/*.min.js",
    "**/*.min.css",
    "**/*.bundle.js",
    "**/vendor/**",
    "**/packages/**",
    "**/.venv/**",
    "**/venv/**",
    "**/bower_components/**",
    "**/app/lib/**",
    "**/wwwroot/lib/**",
    "**/wwwroot/libs/**",
    "**/static/vendor/**",
    "**/public/vendor/**",
    "**/assets/vendor/**",
    "**/site-packages/**"
  ],
  "include": [],
  "languages": "auto",
  "agents_md_path": "./AGENTS.md",
  "max_file_size_bytes": 1048576
}

Options