# shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin

> Pantsbuild Model Context Protocol Plugin from Shoal Software LLC

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Tom Dyas
- homepage: https://github.com/shoalsoft/shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin
- repository: https://github.com/shoalsoft/shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin

### Description (declared)

# Pantsbuild Model Context Protocol Plugin

## Installation

From PyPI:

1. In the relevant Pants project, edit `pants.toml` to set the `[GLOBAL].plugins` option to include `shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin==VERSION` (replacing `VERSION` with the applicable version) and the `[GLOBAL].backend_packages` option to include `shoalsoft.pants_mcp_plugin`.

2. Confogure your LLM coding agent to invoke `pants shoalsoft-mcp --run-stdio-server` in the repository as follows:

  - [Claude Code setup](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp#option-1%3A-add-a-local-stdio-server)
  - [ChatGPT Codex setup](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/advanced.md#model-context-protocol-mcp)

## Licensing

This project is commercial software subject [to a license](https://github.com/shoalsoft/shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin/blob/main/LICENSE).

Permission is granted for personal, non-commercial use and for commercial evaluation, but not regular commercial use (which includes using the project for software development workflows in a commercial setting) without explicit permission.

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (0.825, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/shoalsoft-pants-mcp-plugin/ (first seen 2026-09-10T12:21:57.312Z)

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