Use Chief with your AI coding agent

Chief gives your AI coding agent direct access to your project. Ask questions about everything your team has uploaded, add new documents, and automate the busywork — right from Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. No SDK, no curl, no boilerplate to get started.

Connect your agent to Chief

Three steps and your agent is talking to Chief.

Get your Chief token

Sign in to Chief and open Settings → API tokens. Create a Personal Access Token and copy it, along with your project id — you’ll paste both into your agent’s config below.

Install the Chief MCP server

brew install --cask Storytell-ai/tap/chief-mcp

Other install options (Go, prebuilt binaries) are on the MCP server page.

Connect your agent

Cursor
Claude Code
Codex

After install, open the server in Cursor Settings → MCP and fill in your CHIEF_API_KEY and CHIEF_PROJECT_ID. Prefer to paste config by hand? See MCP clients → Cursor.

claude mcp add chief \
  -e CHIEF_API_KEY=<your-token> \
  -e CHIEF_PROJECT_ID=<your-project-id> \
  -- chief-mcp stdio

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.chief]
command = "chief-mcp"
args = ["stdio"]
env = { CHIEF_API_KEY = "<your-token>", CHIEF_PROJECT_ID = "<your-project-id>" }

Using a different client, or want HTTP transport? The full matrix is on MCP clients.

Try it

Once your agent is connected, paste this in:

“Using Chief, what are the main themes across everything in my project?”

Your agent calls Chief, reads your project, and answers — no code from you.

Prefer to do it yourself?

Quickstart

Zero to a chat response with plain curl.

Go SDK

Typed Go client, one service per resource.

CLI

The chief command for scripts, CI, and your shell.

API reference

Every endpoint, with an interactive playground.

ChatsStart chats, append turns, list history, and poll for assistant output.

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Quickstart

Go SDK

CLI

API reference

Connect your agent to Chief

Try it

Prefer to do it yourself?