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Universal MCP server that exposes coding agents (Copilot, Claude Code, Codex) as subagents via a unified tool interface

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agentprism

A universal MCP server that exposes coding agents — GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex — as background subagents behind a single, unified tool interface.

agentprism lets one AI agent orchestrate other AI agents. Drop it into your MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, …) and you gain seven tools — agent_spawn, agent_send, agent_wait, agent_status, agent_list, agent_kill, agent_models — that drive any supported coding agent through its native protocol. Run several in parallel, hand off tasks between them, or use a cheaper model as a worker for a more expensive planner. agentprism speaks each provider's wire protocol natively (ACP JSON-RPC for Copilot, stream-JSON for Claude Code, exec-resume for Codex) — no fragile screen-scraping.

Installation

Recommended — no install required (uvx):

# uvx runs agentprism directly from PyPI, no pip install needed
uvx agentprism

Or install permanently:

pip install agentprism
# or: uv tool install agentprism

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/StefanMaron/agentprism
cd agentprism
pip install -e .

You also need at least one supported coding-agent CLI installed and authenticated:

Provider CLI Auth
Copilot copilot (install) copilot login
Claude Code claude (install) claude then /login
Codex codex (install) codex login

Usage with Claude Code

Add to ~/.claude/mcp.json (create if it doesn't exist):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentprism": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["agentprism"],
      "type": "stdio"
    }
  }
}

If you installed agentprism permanently, use "command": "agentprism" with no args.

Restart Claude Code. The seven agent_* tools will appear. Try:

Use agent_spawn to start a Copilot session in /tmp/playground with the task "write a Python script that prints prime numbers up to 100", then agent_wait for it to finish.

Usage with other MCP clients

Any MCP client that supports stdio servers works. The config shape is the same — point command at agentprism (or uvx + args: ["agentprism"]).

Tool reference

Tool Args Returns
agent_models provider? model ids + cost multipliers per provider
agent_spawn task, cwd, provider, model?, mode? session_id — non-blocking, starts immediately
agent_send session_id, message agent reply (blocks until response)
agent_status session_id working | idle | done | error
agent_wait session_id, timeout_seconds? accumulated output (blocks until done)
agent_list all active sessions
agent_kill session_id terminates the subprocess

provider values: copilot, claude, codex

mode values (Copilot / Claude Code): agent (default), plan, autopilot

Provider support

Provider Status Protocol
GitHub Copilot ACP JSON-RPC over stdio
Claude Code stream-JSON bidirectional stdio
Codex codex exec / codex exec resume

Model cost multipliers

Use agent_models(provider="copilot") at runtime to get the current list. Examples:

Model (Copilot) Multiplier Notes
auto / claude-sonnet-4.6 1x default
claude-haiku-4.5 0.33x cheapest Claude
gpt-5-mini 0x free
gpt-4.1 0x free
claude-opus-4.7 7.5x deep reasoning only
gpt-5.5 7.5x GPT flagship

Architecture

┌──────────────────┐                     ┌──────────────────────────────┐
│  MCP client      │  agent_spawn(...)   │      agentprism server         │
│  (Claude Code,   │ ──────────────────► │                              │
│   Cursor, ...)   │  ◄──── result ────  │  ┌────────────────────────┐  │
└──────────────────┘                     │  │   ToolDispatcher       │  │
                                         │  └───────────┬────────────┘  │
                                         │              │               │
                                         │  ┌───────────▼────────────┐  │
                                         │  │   SessionRegistry      │  │
                                         │  │   session_id ► Adapter │  │
                                         │  └───────────┬────────────┘  │
                                         │              │               │
                                         │  ┌───────────▼────────────┐  │
                                         │  │   CopilotAdapter (ACP) │  │
                                         │  │   ClaudeCodeAdapter    │  │
                                         │  │   CodexAdapter         │  │
                                         │  └───────────┬────────────┘  │
                                         └──────────────┼───────────────┘
                                                        │ native protocol
                                                        ▼
                                          ┌─────────────────────────────┐
                                          │  coding agent subprocess    │
                                          └─────────────────────────────┘

Each adapter owns one subprocess per session. A reader coroutine demuxes stdout: responses resolve pending futures, while streaming updates accumulate in an output buffer that agent_wait and agent_send drain.

Configuration

Environment variables:

Variable Default Purpose
AGENTPRISM_LOG_LEVEL INFO Python logging level (logs go to stderr)
AGENTPRISM_COPILOT_BIN copilot Path to the copilot binary
AGENTPRISM_CLAUDE_BIN claude Path to the claude binary
AGENTPRISM_CODEX_BIN codex Path to the codex binary

Development

git clone https://github.com/StefanMaron/agentprism
cd agentprism
pip install -e ".[dev]"
ruff check .
pytest

License

MIT

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