Athenode

Athenode is a local stdio MCP server for spec-driven development, giving AI coding agents access to a project's specs, skills, agents, rules and MCP servers.

What you can do

• Connect an AI coding agent to an Athenode project's spec-driven development setup.
• Work with the project's specs, skills, agents, rules and MCP server definitions.
• Run locally over stdio from the project root, using the configuration created by the Athenode init command.
• No individual tools are listed in the manifest, so the exact operations are not documented here.

When to use it

Worth adding when you use Athenode to organize specs, skills, agents and rules for AI coding agents and want the assistant to work with that project context directly. It is a desktop-only local server, so it suits local development rather than hosted or browser use.

Requirements

Runs as a local process via npx from the npm package @athenode/cli (Node.js required). The project root must contain .athenode/config.json, created by running the Athenode init command there. ATHENODE_PROJECT_DIR sets the project root and defaults to the working directory or the client's first root. A project token is stored by init or supplied through the ATHENODE_TOKEN environment variable.