Origami

Docs › Agents

MCP server

The way an agent works Origami the way you do, from opening a terminal to answering a review comment.

Where Settings › MCP Agents use it 1 min read

How it works

  1. Origami runs an MCP server on your machine while it is open. Through it, an agent can list your workspaces and tabs, open and stop tabs, run a command and read its output, read the git status and diff, write artifacts, work the board, answer review threads, drive a browser tab, show you a file in Files, and read and add to the scratchpad.
  2. Open Settings › MCP. Under Connect there is a row for each agent you have enabled, with the line that adds Origami to it.
  3. Press Install on a row to add Origami to that agent. A row says Installed once it is there, and Remove takes it out again.
  4. If you change the server's Port, the agents already connected point at the old one. Their rows say so and offer Fix.
  5. Once an agent has called Origami, its row says when it was last used.

Good to know

  • Agents stay connected after a restart, but can only reach Origami while it is open.
  • You can copy a row's line and run it yourself instead.
  • Enable MCP server turns the whole server off.
  • Every call an agent makes is recorded in the Agent trail.
  • The page lists every tool the server offers, under Tools.

Related