sysknife-setup

Zero-friction onboarding wizard for the SysKnife MCP server.

Install

The wizard auto-downloads prebuilt binaries verified against SHA256.

Usage

npx sysknife-setup

For local development, run node packages/setup/index.js from the repository root.

Run from the root of your project. The wizard is interactive and scriptable via stdin redirection.

Choose one integration interactively, or pass a flag to go straight to it:

node packages/setup/index.js --claude
node packages/setup/index.js --cursor
node packages/setup/index.js --codex

What gets written

The wizard asks which integration to configure, then writes only the files for that client.

Claude Code

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | .mcp.json | MCP server config — { "mcpServers": { "sysknife": { ... } } } | | .claude/hookify.require-sysknife-approval.local.md | Approval gate rule | | .claude/hookify.sysknife-schema-fetch.local.md | Deferred-schema reminder | | .claude/hookify.sysknife-bash-guard.local.md | VM query guard |

Cursor

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | .cursor/mcp.json | MCP server config — same mcpServers JSON shape as Claude Code | | .cursor/rules/sysknife.mdc | Cursor project rule (approval + safety guidance) |

Codex CLI (openai/codex)

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | ~/.codex/config.toml | [mcp_servers.sysknife] block appended to global config | | AGENTS.md | SysKnife rules appended (or file created) |

All files that may contain API keys are created with chmod 0600.

Gitignore advice

The wizard prints a reminder to add sensitive files to .gitignore:

.mcp.json
.claude/*.local.md
.cursor/mcp.json

~/.codex/config.toml lives outside the project and is not an issue.

Multi-VM (fleet) mode

When you answer "Y" to "Add another VM?", the wizard collects multiple daemon socket addresses and names them. Each target becomes a separate MCP server entry (sysknife-web, sysknife-db, …) across all written config files.

Options

--claude      Configure Claude Code only
--cursor      Configure Cursor only
--codex       Configure Codex CLI only
--all         Configure Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex CLI
--no-binary   Skip prebuilt binary download (build from source instead)
--no-prompts  Accept all defaults non-interactively (useful for scripts/tests)
--help, -h    Show help and exit