io.github.sshahzaiib/agy-bridge MCP Server

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agy-bridge

An MCP bridge that lets Claude Code delegate heavy tasks to the Antigravity CLI (agy) — saving Claude's context window and tokens for what matters.

Claude sends a task → the bridge routes it to the best available model via agy → only the answer comes back. Large files, deep git searches, and web lookups never touch Claude's context.

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User → Claude Code → agy-bridge (MCP) → agy CLI → Gemini / Claude / GPT-OSS
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Why this over claude-to-agy?

	claude-to-agy	agy-bridge
Tool surface	1 generic delegate_to_agy	6 purpose-built tools — Claude self-routes reliably
Model selection	none (agy default only)	per-tool routing across all agy models, with availability detection and fallback
Multi-turn	stateless	session continuity — follow_up resumes agy conversations without resending context
Output safety	unbounded	configurable truncation cap protects Claude's context
Sandbox	no	optional --sandbox mode
Install	uvx (Python)	npx (Node) — zero install

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• Antigravity CLI (agy) installed and authenticated
• Claude Code

Install

# 1. Register the MCP server (user scope = all projects).
#    add-json bakes in a generous client-side timeout so long analyze_files /
#    delegate calls don't trip Claude Code's tool-call deadline (see Timeouts).
claude mcp add-json -s user agy-bridge \
  '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","agy-bridge"],"timeout":600000}'

# 2. Add delegation rules to your project (or ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for global)
curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sshahzaiib/agy-bridge/main/CLAUDE.md

The "timeout": 600000 (10 min, milliseconds) is the client-side tool-call deadline — without it, a cold-start analyze_files (~40–50s) or a long delegate can hit Claude Code's default and return timed out waiting for response while the agy run is still going. If your client doesn't honor a per-server timeout, set the global env var MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT=600000 instead. Details and the agy-side budgets are in Timeouts and cancellation.

Tools

Tool	Use for	Model routing (first available)
analyze_files	Files >200 lines, >3 files at once, logs, dumps, generated code	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) → Gemini 3.1 Pro (Low)
deep_search	git log/diff/blame archaeology, repo-wide greps	Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) → (High)
web_lookup	Docs, API references, external/current knowledge	Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) → (High)
adversarial_review	Plan critiques, design and code reviews	Gemini 3.1 Pro (High) → Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking) → Flash (High)
follow_up	Continue a prior session by session_id — no context resend	inherits the session
delegate	Anything else heavy	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)

All tools accept optional cwd (project root) and model (an id or display name from agy models; validated, with available models listed on mismatch).

Every response ends with a footer:

---
[agy-bridge] model: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) | session: 1f0c…-d4 (use follow_up to continue)

Model routing

On first use the bridge runs agy models (cached for the process lifetime) and picks the first available model in the tool's preference chain. If none is available it falls back to AGY_DEFAULT_MODEL, and finally to agy's own default. agy silently ignores unknown --model values, so the bridge validates names up front instead of letting requests land on the wrong model.

Quota-aware failover

agy never surfaces quota exhaustion in print mode — it silently retries the 429 until its print-timeout, then exits 0 with empty output, which used to look like an indefinite hang. The bridge now watches each run's log file (via --log-file) and on RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED (code 429):

1. kills the agy process group immediately (no waiting out the timeout),
2. parses the reset time ("Resets in 4h24m") into an in-process cooldown registry,
3. retries the same prompt on the next model in the tool's chain,
4. skips cooled-down models on all subsequent calls until their quota resets.

Failovers are annotated in the response footer (failover: <model>: quota exhausted (resets in 4h24m)). Only when every candidate is exhausted does the call fail — in seconds, with reset times listed — instead of hanging.

Timeouts and cancellation

Each tool has its own default timeout sized to its job: web_lookup 120s, deep_search 180s, analyze_files / adversarial_review / follow_up 300s, delegate 600s. Setting AGY_TIMEOUT explicitly overrides all of them at once. To change a single tool, set AGY_TIMEOUT_<TOOL_NAME> instead (e.g. AGY_TIMEOUT_DEEP_SEARCH=300); a per-tool override takes precedence over the global AGY_TIMEOUT and the tool's default. The full set of per-tool variables is AGY_TIMEOUT_ANALYZE_FILES, AGY_TIMEOUT_DEEP_SEARCH, AGY_TIMEOUT_WEB_LOOKUP, AGY_TIMEOUT_ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW, AGY_TIMEOUT_FOLLOW_UP, and AGY_TIMEOUT_DELEGATE. The kill path escalates SIGTERM → SIGKILL across the whole process group, and the deadline fires even if agy's helper processes hold the output pipes open. Cancelling the tool call from the MCP client (e.g. pressing Esc in Claude Code) also kills the agy run instead of orphaning it.

Two timeout layers — align them. The timeouts above are the agy-side budget. Your MCP client (Claude Code) has its own, separate tool-call timeout, and if it is shorter than the agy budget the client gives up first — you'll see Error: timed out waiting for response (note: agy-bridge's own timeout reads agy timed out after Ns instead). The work is not lost: the agy session persists, so follow_up with the returned session_id retrieves the result. But the real fix is to make the client wait at least as long as agy: the Install command already sets a per-server timeout of 600000ms (scoped to the agy-bridge entry only). If you registered the server without it, re-run the add-json command from Install, or set the global env var MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT=600000. Rule of thumb: client timeout ≥ agy budget.

Expected latency. Most of the perceived "slowness" is cold start: the first call in a session spawns the agy CLI and warms the model. A simple analyze_files over 3 files measures around 40–50s cold (≈46s observed), dropping on subsequent same-session calls. A first call that also hits a quota 429 takes longer while the bridge fails over. So a client timeout below ~60s will intermittently trip on cold starts even for "simple" questions — size it generously.

Configuration

All optional, via environment variables:

Variable	Default	Description
AGY_PATH	agy	Path to the agy binary
AGY_TIMEOUT	per-tool	Seconds; overrides all per-tool timeouts at once (see above), passed as --print-timeout, enforced with a 15s kill grace
AGY_TIMEOUT_<TOOL>	per-tool	Seconds; overrides the timeout for a single tool only, e.g. AGY_TIMEOUT_DEEP_SEARCH=300. Wins over AGY_TIMEOUT
AGY_MAX_OUTPUT_CHARS	50000	Truncation cap for tool output
AGY_DEFAULT_MODEL	unset	Fallback model when no chain entry is available
AGY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS	true	Pass --dangerously-skip-permissions to agy
AGY_SANDBOX	false	Run agy with --sandbox
AGY_ON_FAILURE	fallback	strict appends an instruction to failed-tool errors telling the calling agent not to absorb the work itself

Failure behavior

The bridge always fails loudly: agy errors surface as MCP tool errors with agy's actual stderr, and degraded model routing is annotated in the response footer. By default the calling agent (Claude) will typically do the work itself after a failure — visible in the transcript, but easy to stop noticing in a long session. Set AGY_ON_FAILURE=strict to append an explicit "do NOT perform this work yourself — report the failure to the user" instruction to every delegation error, so you keep control over when token savings are silently lost.

Development

npm install
npm test           # vitest unit tests (exec mocked — no agy needed)
npm run typecheck
npm run build      # tsup → dist/index.js

Contributors

Contributions are welcome — open an issue or PR.

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License

MIT