# Add Inkeep Skills and MCP Server to your IDE or coding tools (/get-started/ai-coding-setup-for-ide)

Install Skills and MCP to help AI coding assistants build Inkeep agents.



Set up your IDE so AI coding assistants can help you build Inkeep agents.

## Install Inkeep skills

Install [Inkeep skills](https://github.com/inkeep/skills) so AI assistants know how to use the SDK:

```bash
npx skills add inkeep/skills
```

## Install Inkeep MCP

If you didn't opt-in during `npx @inkeep/create-agents`, add the Inkeep MCP server to your IDE:

### Cursor

Click the button below to add the Inkeep MCP server to Cursor.

<div style={{ display: "flex", flexDirection: "row", alignItems: "center", gap: "16px", justifyContent: "center" }}>
  <a href="cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=inkeep-agents&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FnZW50cy5pbmtlZXAuY29tL21jcCJ9">
    <Image src="https://cursor.com/deeplink/mcp-install-dark.png" alt="Add to Cursor" style={{ height: "36px", verticalAlign: "middle", marginTop: "10px", marginBottom: "10px" }} />
  </a>
</div>

### VS Code

Click the button below to add the Inkeep MCP server to VS Code.

<div style={{ display: "flex", flexDirection: "row", alignItems: "center", gap: "16px", justifyContent: "center" }}>
  <a href="vscode:mcp/install?%7B%22name%22%3A%22inkeep-agents-mcp%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22sse%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fagents.inkeep.com%2Fmcp%22%7D">
    <Image src="https://img.shields.io/badge/VS_Code-Install_Inkeep_MCP-0098FF?style=flat-square&logo=visualstudiocode&logoColor=ffffff" alt="Install in VS Code" style={{ height: "28px", verticalAlign: "middle", marginTop: "10px", marginBottom: "10px" }} />
  </a>
</div>

### Claude Code

To add to **Claude Code**, run this in your terminal:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http inkeep-agents https://agents.inkeep.com/mcp --scope project
```

### Other MCP clients

Manually add `https://agents.inkeep.com/mcp` as an MCP Server to any MCP client.