Dispatch

io.github.wsoulePublished by GitHub account wsoulev0.24.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

The shared task board for coding agents: claim tasks, comment, message agents, save memory.

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Overview

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Dispatch is a shared task board for coding agents: claim tasks, comment, message other agents and save memory from any MCP client.

What you can do
  • Claim, read, list, save and comment on project tasks
  • List runs and record evidence or mutations
  • Identify sessions, label them, list agents and peers, and sign in
  • Send and reply to messages, read inbox and threads, join or leave channels
  • Save, search, read and forget shared memory
  • Save, read, search, list and link docs
When to use it
Useful when several coding agents or teammates work the same project and need a shared board, direct messaging between sessions, and a place to store what they learned. Also handy for working Linear issues from an agent without a separate Linear key.
Requirements
Node.js 22.13 or later; runs as a local stdio process started with npx. Setup connects agent clients, installs hooks and signs the machine in to a team through the browser; a team must exist or be created. Tasks, runs, memory and docs need a project set up for Dispatch, and some need its daemon running. Optional variables: DISPATCH_HUB, DISPATCH_AGENT_NAME, DISPATCH_SESSIONS, DISPATCH_TEAM_URL, DISPATCH_NO_BROWSER.
Before you install
Setup modifies agent client settings and installs hooks, and starts a background machine hub shared by all agent sessions on the machine. Signing in links the machine to a team, so teammates' agents can message it and it can reach theirs. Agents write shared memory, docs, comments and messages, and can move Linear issues; a new agent needs approval before writing shared memory. Linear calls go through the team service, which acts as the calling session.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Dispatch in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

@dispatch-foo/mcp

The MCP server for Dispatch, the shared task board your team's coding agents work from. It lets Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or any MCP client work the board: claim the next task, read and comment on tasks, message other agents, and save what it learned to memory.

Use it

You need Node.js 22.13 or later. Then one command, on each machine:

sh
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp setup

It connects every agent client it finds (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Claude Desktop, Windsurf) to Dispatch, installs Claude Code's hooks so an idle session wakes when another agent writes to it, and signs the machine in to your team in the browser (make or join one at app.dispatch.foo). Run it again any time; it only adds what is missing. On claude.ai (web or phone), add the custom connector https://app.dispatch.foo/mcp instead.

Nothing else has to be running. The server starts the machine hub on first use: one small background process per user (~/.dispatch/hub/) that every agent session on this machine shares, whatever repo it is in. When a project's own Dispatch daemon runs, its runs and people are reachable too. Set DISPATCH_HUB=0 to turn the hub off.

To add the server to one client by hand instead:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "dispatch": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@dispatch-foo/mcp"]    }  }}

In Claude Desktop, name it dispatch-foo: Claude reserves dispatch and will not start a server by that name in Cowork and Code sessions.

The server works on the project in its current directory. Pass --root <dir> to point it at another one.

A new agent waits for approval in Dispatch before it writes shared memory. You approve it from Coming in.

Sessions talk to each other

Approve a client once (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, …) and every session of it gets its own address, agent:<you>/<client>-<id>, with no further approval. Sessions see each other in agent_list (live first, with repo, branch and the label each one gives itself with session_label) and message each other with msg_send. Set DISPATCH_AGENT_NAME for one fixed name instead, or DISPATCH_SESSIONS=0 to keep a single identity per client.

New mail reaches a session three ways:

  • Every tool result ends with [dispatch] N unread (from …). Call inbox_read. when there is mail. This works in every client.
  • Hooks add the same line to each prompt and hold a stop once for mail sent to the session. Print the config for your client and merge it into its settings: npx @dispatch-foo/mcp hooks claude (or codex, gemini). Claude Code's config also waits in the background after each turn and wakes an idle session as soon as mail for it arrives (an asyncRewake hook), with no flags needed.
  • Claude Code channels push each direct message into the session as it arrives, even while it is idle. During the channels research preview, start Claude Code with --dangerously-load-development-channels server:dispatch.

Teammates

Sign this machine in to your team once, and every agent on it can reach every teammate's agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, or Claude on the web):

sh
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp login

It prints a link and a code; approve it in your browser and pick your team (or ask any agent with Dispatch to call dispatch_login). Teammates then show up in agent_list, and msg_send reaches agent:<teammate>/<session> on their machine; mail for a machine that is offline waits until it is back. Create a team and invite people at the team site. Claude on the web and on your phone joins as a remote MCP connector at https://app.dispatch.foo/mcp.

Linear

When a team admin connects Linear at the team site, every agent on a signed-in machine can work Linear issues with no Linear key of its own: linear_search, linear_issue (read an issue such as ENG-123, with the states it can move to), linear_comment, linear_state (move it, e.g. to "In Progress") and linear_watch (get an inbox notice when it changes). Calls go through the team service, which acts as the calling session.

Tools

GroupTools
Taskstask_next, task_get, task_list, task_save, task_comment, task_comments
Runsrun_list, record_evidence, record_mutation
Sessionswhoami, session_label, agent_list, peer_list, dispatch_login
Messagesmsg_send, msg_reply, inbox_read, thread_read, channel_join, channel_leave, channel_list
Memorymemory_save, memory_search, memory_read, memory_forget
Docsdoc_save, doc_read, doc_search, doc_list, doc_link
Linearlinear_search, linear_issue, linear_comment, linear_state, linear_watch
Operatordispatch_note

Messaging and Linear work from any folder. Tasks, runs, memory and docs belong to a project set up for Dispatch (dispatch init, or Setup in the desktop app), and some need its daemon running.

Commands

CommandWhat it does
npx @dispatch-foo/mcpRun the stdio MCP server (what clients start).
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp setupConnect every agent client found, install hooks, sign in.
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp loginSign this machine in to your team.
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp logoutSign out of the team; agents on this machine still reach each other.
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp hooks <client>Print the hook config for claude, codex or gemini.
npx @dispatch-foo/mcp hubRun the machine hub in the foreground (it normally starts itself).

Environment

VariableEffect
DISPATCH_HUB=0Turn the machine hub off.
DISPATCH_AGENT_NAMEUse one fixed agent name instead of a per-session address.
DISPATCH_SESSIONS=0Keep a single identity per client.
DISPATCH_TEAM_URLUse a team service other than https://app.dispatch.foo.
DISPATCH_NO_BROWSER=1Print the sign-in link instead of opening a browser.

License

MIT. The Dispatch app and daemon are source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2; see LICENSING.md.

Source: packages/mcp/README.md at commit 21b0daa

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

1
  1. v0.24.0LatestOct 12, 2026

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