Coders Talk MCP server

Coders Talk for Claude Code and Codex

Send the Claude Code or Codex session you are in to Coders Talk as a draft Build: the prompts, interventions and fails that mattered, with the raw log one layer down. The plugin never publishes. The draft is private: only you see it, or your team when the session ran in one of the team's repositories. You review every moment on the site and publish it there if you want to.

The other way round, the plugin gives your agent the Coders Talk library: before a non-trivial task, or after a few failed attempts, it can look up sessions where other developers did something similar, and what went wrong for them (see The library in your agent).

Install

From a terminal

curl -fsSL https://coders.talk/install.sh | sh        # macOS and Linux
irm https://coders.talk/install.ps1 | iex              # Windows, in PowerShell
coders-talk login

This installs coders-talk, one file with no Node.js needed, into ~/.coders-talk/bin and adds that folder to your PATH (the rc file of your shell; on Windows the user PATH). The installer takes the file for your platform from this repository's releases and checks it against the release's SHA256SUMS. No sudo or administrator rights. CODERSTALKVERSION=0.11.0 installs that version, CODERSTALKNOMODIFYPATH=1 leaves PATH alone.

coders-talk login waits in the terminal until you press Connect in the browser; over SSH it prints the link and the code to open elsewhere. coders-talk update replaces the file with the latest release after checking its SHA256. A command you type mentions a newer release in one line, at most once a day; it never waits for the network to do so, and hooks never check. CODERSTALKNOUPDATECHECK=1 turns that off.

Then coders-talk enable connects Claude Code and Codex to it. It says what it found and what it will do, asks, and then installs the plugin through each agent's own plugin system: it lays the plugin out in ~/.coders-talk/plugin and adds that folder as the local marketplace coders-talk-local (claude plugin marketplace add, claude plugin install coders-talk@coders-talk-local; codex plugin marketplace add, codex plugin add). It is the same plugin as the one below, but its hooks and skills call coders-talk by its absolute path, so no Node.js is needed and desktop apps find it without your shell's PATH. On the way it:

• replaces the plugin from the GitHub marketplace (coders-talk@coders-talk), whose hooks would otherwise run twice;
• finds a Coders Talk MCP server you added by hand (claude mcp add, mcp_servers in Codex's config.toml) and removes it, or keeps it and installs the plugin without its own server for that agent;
• asks once about auto mode for every agent it found (off unless you say otherwise). Codex runs the hooks only after you trust them in /hooks; enable does not do that for you;
• in a git repository, asks whether to put the Coders Talk git hooks into it (no, unless they are there already; see Git hooks).

coders-talk enable --yes goes ahead without asking, with --agent=claude-code,codex, --auto=off|on|team|push, --mcp=remove|keep and --git-hooks, --no-git-hooks or --no-trailers for the answers. coders-talk status shows the file, the sign-in, each agent's Coders Talk plugins and auto mode, and the git hooks of the repository you are in. coders-talk disable uninstalls the plugin and its marketplace from both agents and takes the git hooks out of every repository enable put them in; the sign-in, your settings and the file stay. coders-talk update lays the plugin out again in the new version and updates it in the agents, so the plugin's version is always the file's.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.