Ways to connect
Compare the ways to reach Kode from an AI agent, a terminal, and your own code, and find where each is installed.
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Overview
All ways use the same account, the same /v1 API, and the same limits. Choose by who acts: an AI agent, you in a terminal, or your own program.
| Way | Who acts | What you get | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP | An AI agent in any MCP client | The desk tools. The client keeps its own local tools. | Serve the tools |
| MCP and skills | An AI agent in any MCP client | The same tools, and the skills that teach the agent to use them. | Serve the tools, then add the skills |
| Claude Code plugin | Claude Code on your computer | The plugin and the tools. The local tools of Claude Code also work. | Install the plugin |
| CLI | You, in a terminal | Every task on a workspace, environment, desk, or volume as a command. | Install kode |
| SDKs | Your program | The same routes as methods, in Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and Java. | SDKs |
| API | Any HTTP client | The routes that all other ways call. | API overview |
The skills are the folders of skills/ in https://github.com/kloudlite/harness. Copy kode into the skills folder of your client. Claude Code reads ~/.claude/skills.