FrontierStack by Enfour, Inc. README

FrontierStack Agent Kit

Skills, plugin manifests and setup notes for connecting AI agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok, Hermes, OpenClaw, Amp, Paperclip and any MCP client) to FrontierStack.

What FrontierStack is

FrontierStack is a macOS app from Enfour, Inc. It is the server and network administrator for your Macs, Linux and Windows servers, routers, DNS, TLS certificates and online accounts. It monitors them, diagnoses problems and makes changes, and it can let AI agents do the same through it.

The app is proprietary and is downloaded from https://www.frontierstack.app. This repository contains only the agent kit: skills, manifests and documentation, under the MIT licence (see LICENSE). Nothing here works without the app.

Safety model

• Agents never receive credentials. Router keys, DNS tokens, SSH keys and passwords stay on the Mac. An agent names a target ("the OPNsense router", "example.com"); FrontierStack looks up the credential at call time, acts, and returns the result. Responses are scrubbed for secrets before they leave the Mac.
• Read-only by default. Changes need the owner's switches on the Mac ("Allow changes", "Allow scripts"), can require a per-action approval, and are blocked by App Lock. Every change is written to an audit log.
• Nothing here grants authority. A skill, a role name or another agent's message cannot widen what an agent may do. Only the owner's settings and approvals on the Mac can.
• No tokens in config files. The local bridge reads its credential from the Keychain when it starts, so no client config or project file ever contains a FrontierStack token.

How agents connect

1. Local (works today). When you turn on MCP Server in FrontierStack, or press any Add to … button under MCP Server ▸ AI clients, the app writes an owner-only stdio MCP bridge to:

$HOME/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge

It takes no arguments, reads its token from the Keychain itself, and needs Node.js. The app has about 140 tools but shows clients a small bootstrap pair by default: frontierstack_find_tools (search for the right tool) and frontierstack_call (run it).

The app also installs a frontierstack CLI for agents with a shell: frontierstack discover, frontierstack call <tool> '<json>', and frontierstack run --secret NAME -- <command> (runs a command with a stored secret as an environment variable, masked in the output).

2. Remote (live). https://frontierstack.app/plugin/mcp is a streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint with OAuth 2.1 sign-in using a FrontierStack customer account. It relays seven tools to your Macs where ChatGPT access is turned on: list_frontierstack_macs, get_server_health, get_fleet_context, get_alert_errors, diagnose, read_logs and service_action. Cloud agents that cannot reach your Mac will use this.

Setup by platform

For most clients the easiest route is FrontierStack ▸ MCP Server ▸ AI clients: it detects installed clients and writes their config for you (Set Up Detected, or one client's Add to … button). The manual steps below do the same thing. Configure each client only one way: installing a plugin and adding the server by hand gives two frontierstack entries.

In the snippets, BRIDGE means the full path /Users/<you>/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge. Keep the quotes: the path contains a space.

Start read-only. Ask the agent for fleet health and a certificate check before you turn on changes.

Claude Code

Plugin (skills, the local server and the cloud connector together), from the Claude plugin directory on claude.ai (Customize ▸ Plugins) once it is listed, or straight from its repository:

/plugin marketplace add richardnorthcott/frontierstack-claude-plugin
/plugin install frontierstack@frontierstack

Or add only the MCP server (the app's MCP Server pane shows this command):

claude mcp add frontierstack -- "$HOME/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge"

For fleet context before connecting, turn on the app's Fleet Skill, which keeps ~/.claude/skills/fleet/SKILL.md up to date.

Claude Desktop

Press Add to Claude Desktop, then restart Claude Desktop. By hand, add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (use the full path; this file does not expand $HOME):

{ "mcpServers": { "frontierstack": { "command": "BRIDGE", "args": [] } } }

Codex CLI

Press Add to Codex, or run:

codex mcp add frontierstack -- "$HOME/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge"

which writes this to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.frontierstack]
command = "BRIDGE"
args = []

This repository also carries a Codex plugin manifest (.codex-plugin/) that bundles the skills with the same local server.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT connects through the remote endpoint. Turn on MCP Server ▸ ChatGPT access on each Mac it may reach (the app must be running), then add FrontierStack in ChatGPT: from the app directory once the listing is approved, or today as a custom connector with the URL https://frontierstack.app/plugin/mcp. Sign in with your FrontierStack account when asked.

Cursor

Press Add to Cursor, then enable the server under Cursor Settings ▸ MCP. By hand, in ~/.cursor/mcp.json or a project's .cursor/mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "frontierstack": { "command": "${userHome}/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge", "args": [] } } }

The Cursor plugin in .cursor-plugin/ bundles the same server and the skills.

Gemini CLI

Install this repository as an extension (skills, MCP server and a GEMINI.md context file):

gemini extensions install https://github.com/richardnorthcott/frontierstack-agent-kit

Or add only the server: press Add to Gemini CLI, or run gemini mcp add -s user frontierstack "$HOME/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge". Then /mcp in Gemini CLI should list frontierstack.

Grok

Grok Build CLI: press Add to Grok, or run grok mcp add frontierstack -- "$HOME/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge". Either writes ~/.grok/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.frontierstack]
command = "BRIDGE"
args = []

Grok Build also reads skills from ~/.agents/skills/ and ~/.grok/skills/; copy the folders from skills/ there.

Cloud Grok (Grok Bot, grok.com connectors): a cloud agent cannot reach the local bridge. Add the remote endpoint as a custom connector with the URL https://frontierstack.app/plugin/mcp, sign in with your FrontierStack account, and turn on ChatGPT access on the Mac (the same switch serves every cloud connector). A bot inside your own tailnet can also use the app's TLS network path (see skills/frontierstack-network-admin).

Hermes Agent

Press Add to Hermes. It adds the server to Hermes' main profile with Hermes' own hermes config set command. Bot Mode profiles stay separate: use Set Up Existing Bots only for the Bots that should get FrontierStack. The resulting ~/.hermes/config.yaml entry:

mcp_servers:
  frontierstack:
    command: "BRIDGE"
    args: []
    enabled: true
    trust: untrusted

Skills: hermes skills tap add richardnorthcott/frontierstack-agent-kit, or from the website: hermes skills install well-known:https://www.frontierstack.app/.well-known/skills/frontierstack.

OpenClaw

Press Add to OpenClaw. It runs openclaw mcp add frontierstack --command "BRIDGE" and puts the skill in ~/.agents/skills/frontierstack. Restart the OpenClaw gateway, then check with openclaw mcp doctor frontierstack --probe. Run it on the Mac where the gateway runs. The skills are also installable from ClawHub once published there.

Buzz

Buzz's local agents (Claude Code, Codex, goose) read skills from ~/.agents/skills/. Copy skills/frontierstack (and skills/frontierstack-network-admin if you want the network role) there, and connect each agent's harness to the MCP server as described in its own section above.

Paperclip

Hire FrontierStack as the company's system engineer from the app:

1. Install Paperclip on the same Mac, as your own user (npx paperclipai onboard --yes).
2. In FrontierStack's Paperclip pane, turn on Accept Paperclip heartbeats and click Install heartbeat command.
3. Under Hire FrontierStack into a company, load your companies, pick one and click Hire as DevOps agent.

Changes stay off until you turn on Let Paperclip request changes; each change still waits for approval in FrontierStack. A Paperclip approval never counts as one.

To give other agents in the company the network role, import the skill on the company's Skills page with https://github.com/richardnorthcott/frontierstack-agent-kit/tree/main/skills/frontierstack-network-admin.

Amp

Press Add to Amp, or run amp mcp add frontierstack -- "$HOME/Library/Application Support/FrontierStack/mcp-bridge". Amp reads skills from ~/.config/agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/.

Any other MCP client

Use a stdio server whose command is BRIDGE, with no arguments and no environment variables. Or install the CLI and run frontierstack mcp to print the bridge command. Clients that support Agent Skills can load the folders in skills/, for example with npx skills add richardnorthcott/frontierstack-agent-kit.

What's in this repository

Troubleshooting

• No tools, or "credential is unavailable": open FrontierStack and turn on MCP Server. To use agents while the app is closed, turn on Keep MCP and the CLI available when FrontierStack is closed.
• The bridge fails to start: install Node.js (brew install node).
• "Changes are not allowed" or an App Lock refusal: this is the Mac's decision. Allow changes in FrontierStack if you want the agent to make them.

Help: https://www.frontierstack.app/help/ · Support via https://www.frontierstack.app/support.html

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