Sub-Agents MCP

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`AGENTS_DIR`	Yes	Absolute path to your agents folder where .md or .txt agent definitions are stored.
`AGENT_TYPE`	Yes	The execution engine to use: 'cursor' (cursor-agent), 'claude' (claude CLI), 'gemini' (gemini CLI), or 'codex' (codex CLI).
`SESSION_DIR`	No	Absolute path to the directory where session history files are stored.
`SESSION_ENABLED`	No	Set to 'true' to enable session management for context continuity between executions.	false
`EXECUTION_TIMEOUT_MS`	No	How long agents can run before timing out in milliseconds. Default is 5 minutes (300000), max is 10 minutes.	300000
`SESSION_RETENTION_DAYS`	No	How long to keep session files based on last modification time in days.	1

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Capability	Details
`tools`	{}
`resources`	{}

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
run_agent	Delegate complex, multi-step, or specialized tasks to an autonomous agent for independent execution with dedicated context (e.g., refactoring across multiple files, fixing all test failures, systematic codebase analysis, batch operations). Returns session_id in response metadata - reuse it in subsequent calls to maintain conversation context continuity across multiple agent executions.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
`Agent List`	List of available Claude Code sub-agents
`Agent: README`	Sub-Agents MCP Server

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