director

Overview

Director provides a comprehensive solution for organizing and managing MCP tools, prompts, and configurations through 'playbooks' that can be easily switched in and out of context. The service acts as a gateway between AI agents and MCP servers, offering tool filtering, logging, strong isolation, and unified OAuth functionality. With 1-click integration for popular AI clients like Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VSCode, Director enables users to enhance their AI agents with specialized capabilities without complex setup.

Try asking AI

After installing, here are 5 things you can ask your AI assistant:

• list-tools

  List all tools available in a playbook

  Try:Show me all tools in my current playbookTry:What tools are available in my analysis playbook?
• get-tool

  Get details of a specific tool in a playbook

  Try:Tell me about the GitHub integration toolTry:Show me details of the Notion tool
• call-tool

  Execute a specific tool in a playbook with provided arguments

  Try:Run the GitHub issue creator toolTry:Use the database query tool to find recent orders
• ls

  List all available playbooks

  Try:Show me all my playbooksTry:What playbooks do I have configured?
• get

  Show detailed information about a specific playbook

  Try:Show details for my sales playbookTry:What's in the marketing playbook?
• create

  Create a new playbook

  Try:Create a new analytics playbookTry:Set up a customer support playbook
• destroy

  Delete a playbook

  Try:Remove the old inventory playbookTry:Delete the temporary testing playbook
• add

  Add an MCP server to a playbook

  Try:Add the GitHub server to my dev playbookTry:Connect the Notion integration to my notes playbook
• remove

  Remove an MCP server from a playbook

  Try:Remove the Slack server from my playbookTry:Disconnect the old database server
• prompts-ls

  List all prompts in a playbook

  Try:Show me all prompts in my writing playbookTry:What prompts are available in my research playbook?
• prompts-get

  Get details of a specific prompt in a playbook

  Try:Show me the 'Summarize Document' promptTry:What's the code review prompt doing?
• registry-ls

  List all available MCP servers in the registry

  Try:Show me all available servers in the registryTry:What MCP integrations can I add?

Note: Tools were extracted from the CLI reference section in the README, specifically from the 'MCP' commands. These appear to be MCP tools provided by the Director server itself rather than tools from other servers that Director might manage.

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Installation

# Install Director via the 1-liner
$ curl -LsSf https://director.run/install.sh | sh

# Alternative: Install via npm
$ npm install -g @director.run/cli

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "director": {
      "command": "director",
      "args": ["serve"]
    }
  }
}

FAQ

What is a playbook in Director?

A playbook is a set of MCP tools, prompts, and configuration that provides specific capabilities to an AI agent. Playbooks are portable and can be switched in and out of context easily.

How is Director different from regular MCP servers?

Director acts as a gateway between AI agents and MCP servers, allowing you to organize and manage multiple MCP servers through playbooks. It provides additional features like tool filtering, unified OAuth, and centralized logging.

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