wirk-mcp

wirk-mcp gives agents WIRK over MCP: five tools, wirk_status, wirk_query, wirk_write, wirk_review and wirk_show, whose arguments are WIRK's request bodies and whose answers are WIRK's compact text. Coordination and ticketing built for agents and the people they work with: your wirk, its context and its evidence in one wirkspace.

Install

One command installs the wirk command and this server, sets up Claude Code and Codex when they are present, and logs in:

curl -fsSL https://wirk.life/install | sh

By hand, install the CLI and MCP server as separate tools from PyPI:

uv tool install wirk
uv tool install wirk-mcp

Installing wirk-mcp alone provides the server binary, not the wirk CLI command. Run wirk login, then point your agent host at the installed binary. First check claude mcp get wirk or codex mcp get wirk: a server named wirk with another command is an earlier install. Replace it (Claude Code needs claude mcp remove --scope user wirk first; Codex's add replaces it), or skip the add when it already runs this binary:

claude mcp add --scope user wirk -- "$(command -v wirk-mcp)"      # Claude Code
codex mcp add wirk -- "$(command -v wirk-mcp)"                    # Codex

Package releases are also listed on GitHub.

The server uses the configuration wirk login made (~/.config/wirk, or $WIRK_CONFIG_DIR) and only the agents' token in it; it never reads a person's own token. A new login needs no restart.

Use

An agent starts with wirk_status, optionally with a one-line task. wirk_query fetches by ID, short ID or exact title, lists with fields, finds what matters for the words in about, or looks up a receipt. wirk_write changes items and links in one batch, stating in expect the revision it read (rN on a card); completing wirk gives its evidence as reason. Context changes apply when the agent may make them; otherwise they are refused with requires_review and the agent proposes them. wirk_review accepts, rejects or defers proposals when the agent's role may review; a background agent only proposes. wirk_show makes a page a person can open; it is not live on api.wirk.life yet and answers views_unavailable. format: "json" returns data instead of text. request_id may be left out: the server makes one and names it, and resending the identical body with it applies once.

What leaves the machine

The requests the agent makes and their content; the token, only as the bearer header to the configured address; and with wirk_status, the host's name and version, a session number for this server process, and the repository (host/owner/name, or a hash) and branch of the directory it runs in. No telemetry.

Development

The tests need the wirk package installed beside this one: uv pip install -e ../wirk-cli && uv pip install -e . && python -m pytest tests -q.

Releasing

A v* tag matching pyproject.toml's version tests against the wirk release of the same version, attaches the wheel, the sdist and SHA256SUMS to a GitHub Release, and publishes to PyPI through trusted publishing once the wirk-mcp project trusts this repository's release.yml in the pypi environment and the repository variable PYPI_PUBLISH is true. No token is stored anywhere.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.

Automated publication

Push the exact reviewed version tags for the CLI, MCP and skill. Each existing Release workflow then tests and publishes its component; MCP and skill wait up to ten minutes for the matching CLI wheel and its identical PyPI distribution. Tags choose reviewed source; pushing main does not publish a release.

New GitHub releases stay prereleases until their downloaded public bytes match the build and a clean public installation passes. The shared publication workflow is pinned to an exact revision. Failures appear in Actions. Retry failed jobs to reuse the successful build artifacts: identical existing assets are retained, missing assets are uploaded, and differing bytes or a moved tag stop the run. Do not overwrite a published asset to make a retry pass.

The Release workflow's manual verification input checks an existing public tag without publishing. This publication automation does not update already-installed or running clients.