Introduction

Bring Ancher into your workflow — from a coding agent or from your terminal.

Ancher is your personal knowledge base and research assistant. These docs cover the two ways to reach it from a developer workflow: Agent Skills, which give a coding agent direct access to your knowledge base, and the CLI, which puts Ancher in your terminal.

The two are independent. Install either one, or both — the Quickstart walks through each in a few commands.

Agent Skills

Give Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor the skills and hosted MCP server to work with your Ancher knowledge base.

bash

npx -y @ancher-ai/agent-skills install

The installer finds Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, then configures the ones it finds. It does not install a local server or require an API token. Start at Agent Skills installation.

CLI

A terminal-friendly interface for saving, searching, organizing, and creating from your knowledge base.

bash

npm install -g @ancher-ai/cli
ancher login

Commands that return a record or a page print JSON; the ones that don’t — action confirmations, raw content, streamed chat prose, api passthrough — are spelled out per kind under Output. All of them authenticate from an environment variable and reject an unknown flag before a request leaves your machine, so one interface serves a person at a prompt, a CI job, and an AI agent equally well. Start at CLI installation.

Which one do I want?

If you want to	Use
Have your coding agent save and search Ancher content	Agent Skills
Work with Ancher yourself, from a terminal	CLI
Script Ancher in CI	CLI, with `ANCHER_API_TOKEN`

Agent Skills works without the CLI, because the agent talks to the hosted MCP server rather than shelling out.