BuildersStart with your coding agent

Updated 28 Oct 2026View as Markdown

Start with your coding agent

Connects Claude Code, Cursor or another coding agent to Mindset, so it builds, tests and changes your agents for you.

Your coding agent builds Mindset agents through the mindset-admin MCP server, and the Mindset skills tell it how to do each job. It changes your code and the agent's files in the same session, and the plumbing stays in Mindset, so none of it becomes code your team maintains. See Why Mindset is MCP first. Every Builders guide starts with a prompt to hand it.

Ask your coding agent#

Connect this project to Mindset's admin MCP server, then tell me which org and environment you're in and list my agents.

Set it up#

  1. Open Settings → Systems

    Under Connect an AI client, choose For administrators.

  2. Pick your tool

    Pick the tool you work in: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot (VS Code), Claude Desktop or Claude.ai.

  3. Paste the prompt

    Copy the prompt and paste it into your client. For Claude Code, it runs:

    sh
    claude mcp add --transport http --scope project mindset-admin https://<your Mindset host>/api/v1/orgs/<org>/envs/<environment>/mcp

    It also adds a short "Using Mindset" note to the project's CLAUDE.md, so the agent knows what Mindset is next session.

  4. Sign in

    In Claude Code, run /mcp, pick mindset-admin and sign in with your Mindset account in the browser. There's no key to paste.

  5. Check it works

    Ask your client "list my Mindset agents".

The address names one environment: the one chosen in the nav switcher when you copied it. Switch first if you want a different one.

Only org admins can use mindset-admin. Anyone else gets "not found", and calls published agents through the members' server instead: see Use your agents from AI clients. MCP tools lists every tool, and every call is checked against your admin permissions.

Give it the skills#

A skill is a SKILL.md file your coding agent loads when a task needs it. Start with the one that installs the MCP server and explains orgs and environments:

Skill for your coding agent

Install and use the Mindset MCP

Skills lists one skill per job, and each guide names the skill its prompt uses. Every docs page is also Markdown: add .md to its URL. /llms.txt indexes every page, and /llms-full.txt holds them all in one file.

Done when#

Your client names the org and environment it's in and lists your agents, and no key ever appeared in the conversation.