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# pikopod mcp

> Serve pikopod's checks and sandbox controls to a coding agent over the Model Context Protocol.

```text theme={null}
pikopod mcp [--config <path>]
```

Serves pikopod over MCP on stdin and stdout. Reads the same `pikopod.yaml`, starts no listener and no daemon, and exits `2` when the configuration is missing or invalid. Runs until stdin closes.

```json theme={null}
{ "mcpServers": { "pikopod": { "command": "pikopod", "args": ["mcp", "--config", "/path/to/pikopod.yaml"] } } }
```

The tools are the checks an agent cannot perform by reading files: what a provider actually sent, what the caller's code actually sent, and whether a change breaks either. Every result carries a verdict from a closed set (`CLEAN`, `FINDINGS`, `UNVERIFIABLE`, `ERROR`), and `UNVERIFIABLE` always says why. `fix` is deliberately absent.

See [Coding agents](/getting-started/coding-agents) and the [MCP tools reference](/reference/mcp-tools).