CLI MCP server

Align CLI

Your AI agents know the code. They don't know the company.

The decisions behind the code live in commits, tickets, chat and meetings. Months later nobody can tell what still stands, what conflicts, or why. Align pulls them into one graph your agents check before they build.

curl -fsSL https://align.tech/install.sh | sh
align

That is the whole thing. align sets itself up the first time you run it and asks whether you want it local-only or synced; after that it shows your graph and what to do next.

A standalone binary. No Node, no npm, nothing else to install, and local-only mode works fully - on-device embeddings included, running on a WASM backend bundled inside the binary. Linux, macOS and Windows, x64 and arm64, glibc and musl. Verified against the release's own checksums, and you can read install.sh before you pipe it anywhere.

Prefer npm, or already have Node? npm install -g @aligndottech/cli (Node 22.16+). Binaries for every platform are on the releases page.

MIT. No account needed. Beta, pre-1.0.

Run it inside a git repository. --local seeds the graph from your commit history, so you have something to ask about straight away, and your decisions stay in a SQLite file on your machine. Your decisions and code never go to Align. It sends two anonymous counts by default (install, setup completed); usage only with your consent; align telemetry off or DONOTTRACK=1 stops all of it. What touches the network, and every field.

Want sync across machines and cross-tool relationship detection? Drop the flag. align setup logs you in - a work email lands you in your company's graph (first person in is the admin, the next colleague on that domain joins it automatically); a personal email gets you a graph of your own, joinable to a company graph later by invite. It also connects your tools via read-only OAuth and wires up your editors.

How it works

Your tools                      Align                       Your agents & you
  ──────────                   ───────────                  ───────────────────
  Git, GitHub, GitLab  ─┐                                  ┌─ align ask "why…"
  Jira, Confluence      ├─▶  import  ─▶  decision graph ─┐ ├─ MCP server (inline)
  Linear, Notion        │    (read-only) (what/why/who)  ├─┤  edit hooks (any agent)
  Slack, Teams, Zoom   ─┘                  + relationships┘ └─ align check (CI)

decisions relate (supersedes, conflicts with, depends on).

1. Import pulls decisions out of the tools you already use. Read-only, nothing is modified.
2. Align links them into a decision graph: what was decided, why, who decided it, and how

1. Your agents query and check against it, over MCP, an edit hook, CI, or align ask.

Your agent checks before it writes

align setup wires Align in four ways, so context fires whether or not the model thinks to ask.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.