ai-intervention-agent 1.6.3

AI Intervention Agent: MCP server enabling real-time user intervention in AI-assisted development workflows.

AI Intervention Agent

Real-time user intervention for MCP agents.

English | 简体中文

When using AI CLIs/IDEs, agents can drift from your intent. This project gives you a simple way to intervene at key moments, review context in a Web UI, and send your latest instructions via interactive_feedback so the agent can continue on track.

Works with Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Augment, Windsurf, Trae, and more.

Quick start

Quickest: ask your AI to install it for you

If your IDE/CLI has an AI agent (Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Windsurf, Trae, Augment, ...), paste the prompt below in chat and let it write the config for you.

Click to copy the install prompt

Please configure my IDE / AI tool to use the `ai-intervention-agent` MCP server:

1. Locate the correct MCP config file for my current IDE
   (e.g. `.cursor/mcp.json` or `~/.cursor/mcp.json` for Cursor,
    `~/.claude.json` for Claude Code,
    `.vscode/mcp.json` for VS Code).
2. Add this entry under `mcpServers`:
   - command: `uvx`
   - args: `["ai-intervention-agent"]`
   - timeout: 600
   - autoApprove: `["interactive_feedback"]`
3. Append the project's recommended prompt rules
   (the "Prompt snippet (copy/paste)" block in this README)
   to my agent rules / system prompt, so the agent always asks me
   through `interactive_feedback` instead of ending tasks silently.
4. Verify by listing MCP servers and confirming `ai-intervention-agent` is loaded.

Option 1: Using uvx (Recommended)

Configure your AI tool to launch the MCP server directly via uvx (this automatically installs and runs the latest version):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-intervention-agent": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["ai-intervention-agent"],
      "timeout": 600,
      "autoApprove": ["interactive_feedback"]
    }
  }
}

Option 2: Using pip

1. First, install the package manually (please remember to manually pip install --upgrade ai-intervention-agent periodically to get updates):

pip install ai-intervention-agent

2. Configure your AI tool to launch the installed MCP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-intervention-agent": {
      "command": "ai-intervention-agent",
      "args": [],
      "timeout": 600,
      "autoApprove": ["interactive_feedback"]
    }
  }
}

[!NOTE] interactive_feedback is a long-running tool. Some clients have a hard request timeout, so the Web UI provides a countdown + auto re-submit option to keep sessions alive.

• Default: feedback.frontend_countdown=240 seconds
• Range: 0 (disabled) or [10, 3600] seconds. The default 240 stays under the common 300s session hard timeout; raise it intentionally when your client allows longer turns.

3. (Optional) Customize your config:

• On first run, config.toml will be created under your OS user config directory (see docs/configuration.md).
• Example:

[web_ui]
port = 8080

[feedback]
frontend_countdown = 240
backend_max_wait = 600

Prompt snippet (copy/paste)

- Only ask me through the MCP `ai-intervention-agent` tool; do not ask directly in chat or ask for end-of-task confirmation in chat.
- If a tool call fails, keep asking again through `ai-intervention-agent` instead of making assumptions, until the tool call succeeds.

ai-intervention-agent usage details:

- If requirements are unclear, use `ai-intervention-agent` to ask for clarification with predefined options.
- If there are multiple approaches, use `ai-intervention-agent` to ask instead of deciding unilaterally.
- If a plan/strategy needs to change, use `ai-intervention-agent` to ask instead of deciding unilaterally.
- Before finishing a request, always ask for feedback via `ai-intervention-agent`.
- Do not end the conversation/request unless the user explicitly allows it via `ai-intervention-agent`.

Screenshots

_{Feedback page · auto switches between dark/light · multi-task tabs with independent countdowns}

More screenshots (empty state + settings)

_{Empty state · waiting for the next interactive request}

_{Settings · notifications · Bark · sound · feedback countdown · auto switches between dark/light}

Key features

• Real-time intervention: the agent pauses and waits for your input via interactive_feedback
• Web UI: Markdown, code highlighting, and math rendering
• Multi-task: tab switching with independent countdown timers
• Auto re-submit: keep sessions alive by auto-submitting at timeout
• Notifications: web / sound / system / Bark (loopback URLs auto-suppressed; LAN-IP suggestion surfaced in settings)
• SSH / LAN friendly: works behind port forwarding; mDNS publishes a <host>.local URL when the local network supports it

Architecture diagram, "how it works" flow, production middleware chain, server self-info resource, and MCP-spec compliance details live under docs/api/index.md and docs/mcp_tools.md.

VS Code extension (optional)

Item	Value
Purpose	Embed the interaction panel into VS Code’s sidebar to avoid switching to a browser.
Install (Open VSX)	Open VSX
Download VSIX (GitHub Release)	GitHub Releases
Setting	ai-intervention-agent.serverUrl (should match your Web UI URL, e.g. http://localhost:8080; you can change web_ui.port in config.toml.default)
Other settings	ai-intervention-agent.logLevel (Output → AI Intervention Agent). macOS native notifications are enabled by default and can be toggled in the sidebar's Notification Settings panel. See packages/vscode/README.md for the full settings list and the AppleScript executor security model.

Configuration

Item	Value
Docs (English)	docs/configuration.md
Docs (简体中文)	docs/configuration.zh-CN.md
Default template	config.toml.default (on first run it will be copied to config.toml)

OS	User config directory
Linux	~/.config/ai-intervention-agent/
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/ai-intervention-agent/
Windows	%APPDATA%/ai-intervention-agent/

Documentation

• Docs index (by audience): docs/README.md · docs/README.zh-CN.md
• Scripts index (CI gates / generators / QA): scripts/README.md
• Release notes: CHANGELOG.md · VS Code marketplace listing: packages/vscode/CHANGELOG.md
• Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md · CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• API docs index: docs/api/index.md
• API docs (简体中文): docs/api.zh-CN/index.md
• MCP tool reference: docs/mcp_tools.md
• MCP 工具说明: docs/mcp_tools.zh-CN.md
• Troubleshooting / FAQ: docs/troubleshooting.md · docs/troubleshooting.zh-CN.md
• i18n contributor guide: docs/i18n.md
• DeepWiki Q&A — AI-augmented Q&A over the repo:

Related projects

• interactive-feedback-mcp
• mcp-feedback-enhanced
• cunzhi
• other interactive-feedback-mcp

Acknowledgements

This project's heritage traces back to Fábio Ferreira (2024) and Pau Oliva (2025), whose original noopstudios/interactive-feedback-mcp and poliva/interactive-feedback-mcp seeded the MCP interactive_feedback tool surface. Their copyright notices are preserved in LICENSE per the MIT license terms. The v1.5.x line is a substantial rewrite — Web UI, VS Code extension, i18n, notification stack, CI/CD pipeline — owned and maintained by @xiadengma (PyPI / Open VSX / VS Code Marketplace publisher).

License

MIT License