agent-integrations

@particle-academy/agent-integrations

MCP-driven agent presence in collab sessions. Each open session gets a micro-MCP server running in-page; agents (in-browser or external via relay) connect to it and act as participants — adding sticky notes, drawing, moving items, leaving cursor trails.

Also ships the agent UX surface: a chat-and-tool-log panel, an on-canvas presence cursor, and a brief activity highlight for items the agent just touched.

v0.1 — focused on @particle-academy/fancy-whiteboard as the first bridged surface. The bridge layer is package-agnostic, so other fancy-* packages can register their own tool sets per session.

Install

npm install @particle-academy/agent-integrations

import "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/styles.css";

Which version range to depend on

Use a caret. ^0.46.0 is correct here, and it is deliberate.

"@particle-academy/agent-integrations": "^0.46.0"

This package is pre-1.0, and breaking changes land in MINOR releases — see the note at the top of CHANGELOG.md. A caret on a 0.x locks the minor (npm reads ^0.46.0 as >=0.46.0 <0.47.0), so it gives you patches and holds you at a surface you have already integrated against. That is the right default when the next minor may change something under you.

Moving up a minor is a deliberate act. Read that version's CHANGELOG.md entry before you do — breaking entries say what a consumer must actually DO, and about half of what reads as breaking needs no action at all.

A note on the rest of the suite. Some Fancy packages recommend an open >=X <2.0 range instead. That is not an inconsistency: those packages carry a runtime compatibility check that fails loudly when a consumer is out of step — fancy-connector-core's CONNECTOR_API_VERSION is the example — which is a stronger guarantee than a caret and makes the caret unnecessary. This package has no such check, so the caret is doing real work.

The rule inside the suite differs again: first-party packages depend on each other with an open range because they are released and tested together at a kit version. A consumer is not, which is why the advice here is not the same.

Tree-shake-safe imports

The root barrel is core-only — MCP server, presence, undo, sharing, plus the bridges and components that don't depend on optional peer packages (fancy-sheets, fancy-forms, fancy-code, fancy-charts, fancy-scene, fancy-screens).

Bridges whose peer is optional (fancy-whiteboard, fancy-flow) and the SharedWhiteboard component are reachable only via subpath imports so a consumer that hasn't installed those peers bundles cleanly:

// Core — always safe:
import {
  MicroMcpServer,
  attachInProcess,
  registerSheetsBridge,
  useSheetsAdapter,
  useSheetsActivityHighlights,
} from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations";

// Optional peers — subpath imports:
import { registerWhiteboardBridge } from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/bridges/whiteboard";
import { registerFlowBridge }       from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/bridges/flow";
import { SharedWhiteboard }         from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/components/shared-whiteboard";

Every bridge has a matching subpath if you'd rather import surgically:

Bridge	Subpath
whiteboard	…/bridges/whiteboard
flow	…/bridges/flow
sheets	…/bridges/sheets
forms	…/bridges/forms
code	…/bridges/code
charts	…/bridges/charts
scene	…/bridges/scene
screens	…/bridges/screens
passkeys	…/bridges/passkeys
sheets adapter hook	…/sheets-adapter
presence	…/presence
undo	…/undo
sharing	…/sharing

When you don't need an MCP server

If your agent runs in the same JS process as the surfaces it drives (an embedded chat widget, an in-page worker, an SSR-time tool loop), you don't need any of MCP's JSON-RPC framing. Use ToolRegistry — a plain in-memory tool host that the bridges register against. Agents drive the surface with host.callTool("sheet_set_cell", { … }) directly.

import {
  ToolRegistry,
  registerSheetsBridge,
  useSheetsAdapter,
} from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations";

const host = new ToolRegistry();
registerSheetsBridge(host, { adapter });

// in-process agent:
await host.callTool("sheet_set_cell", { address: "B3", value: 42 });

Need both? MicroMcpServer extends ToolRegistry, so the same instance serves direct in-process calls and SSE-relayed remote agents at the same time. Bridges accept either — every register*Bridge(host, …) signature takes a ToolHost.

A headless MCP server over stdio

For a Node process that an MCP client launches as a subprocess (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop), import the two headless subpaths. Neither reaches React or the DOM: /mcp imports no package at all, and /mcp/stdio imports only Node built-ins — a test walks both import graphs to keep it so.

import { MicroMcpServer } from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/mcp";
import { attachStdio } from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/mcp/stdio";

const server = new MicroMcpServer({
  info: { name: "my-server", version: "1.0.0" },
  // Newest first. initialize echoes the client's revision when it is listed,
  // and answers the first entry otherwise. Omit to answer MCP_PROTOCOL_VERSION.
  protocolVersions: ["2025-11-25", "2025-06-18", "2024-11-05"],
});
server.registerTool({ name: "hello", inputSchema: { type: "object" } }, () => ({
  content: [{ type: "text", text: "hi" }],
}));

attachStdio(server); // stdin/stdout; pass { input, output } for other streams

stdout carries protocol frames and nothing else — log to stderr. A line that is not a JSON-RPC message is reported through onError (stderr by default) and skipped rather than ending the session, and replies still in flight when stdin ends are delivered before the transport closes.

Import /mcp/stdio only from Node. Browser bundles import /mcp, which never pulls it in.

Connect an agent to your app — <ConnectorButtons>

The step before presence: getting your MCP server installed in the user's agent. <ConnectorButtons> renders the right "Add to Claude / Cursor / VS Code" affordance per client (each subtly different), and writeMcpbBundle() builds the Claude Desktop .mcpb:

import { ConnectorButtons } from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations";
import "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/styles.css";

<ConnectorButtons serverName="Decksmith" mcpUrl="https://decksmith.dev/mcp" mcpbDownloadUrl="/decksmith.mcpb" />

import { writeMcpbBundle } from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/connectors/build"; // Node, build-time

Full guide + the per-client format gotchas: docs/connectors.md.

Architecture

┌─ Browser tab ───────────────────────────────────────┐
│   Whiteboard UI ── controlled state ── Bridge       │
│        ▲                                  │        │
│        │ tool calls mutate state          ▼        │
│        └────────── MicroMcpServer ◄─── Transport ◄─ │
│                                          ▲          │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────┘
                                           │
                                  ┌────────┴─────────┐
                                  │                  │
                           in-process            relay
                       (in-page agent)      (external agent
                                            via Reverb / WS)

• MicroMcpServer is a transport-agnostic JSON-RPC 2.0 / MCP protocol handler. Register tools, attach transports, done.
• InProcessTransport wires an in-page agent (e.g. an embedded Claude widget) to the server with zero serialization.
• RelayTransport wraps any JSON duplex channel (Reverb whisper, WebRTC data channel, SSE+POST tunnel) so external agents can reach the browser session.
• Bridges install a cohesive set of MCP tools against a host's controlled state. v0.1 ships the whiteboard bridge with the full tool kit.
• UI components (AgentPanel, AgentCursor, AgentActivityHighlight) make agent presence visible.

Quick start (in-page agent + whiteboard)

import {
  MicroMcpServer,
  attachInProcess,
  registerWhiteboardBridge,
  AgentPanel,
  AgentCursor,
  type AgentActivity,
} from "@particle-academy/agent-integrations";
import "@particle-academy/agent-integrations/styles.css";

function MyBoard() {
  const [notes, setNotes] = useState([]);
  const [shapes, setShapes] = useState([]);
  const [connectors, setConnectors] = useState([]);
  const [strokes, setStrokes] = useState([]);
  const [viewport, setViewport] = useState({ x: 0, y: 0, zoom: 1 });
  const [agentCursor, setAgentCursor] = useState(null);
  const [activity, setActivity] = useState<AgentActivity[]>([]);

  const serverRef = useRef<MicroMcpServer>();
  const transportRef = useRef<InProcessTransport>();

  useEffect(() => {
    const server = new MicroMcpServer({
      info: { name: "whiteboard-session", version: "0.1.0" },
    });
    const bridge = registerWhiteboardBridge(server, {
      adapter: {
        getNotes: () => notes, setNotes,
        getShapes: () => shapes, setShapes,
        getConnectors: () => connectors, setConnectors,
        getStrokes: () => strokes, setStrokes,
        getViewport: () => viewport, setViewport,
        setAgentCursor,
      },
    });
    const transport = attachInProcess(server);
    serverRef.current = server;
    transportRef.current = transport;
    return () => bridge.dispose();
  }, []);

  // ... render board, AgentPanel, AgentCursor when agentCursor is non-null ...
}

For an end-to-end runnable, see the sandbox demo at /whiteboard-agent (added in a follow-up PR).

External agent via relay

External MCP agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, custom clients) reach a browser-hosted MicroMcpServer via a relay broker. The relay just shuttles JSON-RPC frames — it doesn't run tools or hold state.

Three ways to wire one up:

• docs/agent-hookable-demos.md — full end-to-end workflow (browser → relay → external agent), including a complete drop-in Laravel 10+ reference implementation (~200 LOC controller + routes + CSRF entry).
• docs/relay-server.md — the bundled Node relay (agent-integrations-relay bin, createNodeRelay() factory, Dockerfile). Use this when your site is not a Laravel/Rails/PHP app and you want a one-command deploy.
• docs/relay-protocol.md — the on-the-wire JSON envelope, with notes on the three transports the protocol supports (Reverb, WebRTC, SSE+POST).

The agent at the far end needs an MCP client. Beyond pasting the session URL into an existing one (Claude Code, Cursor, …), there's mcp-relay-client — a single-file, zero-dependency client (bash / Python / TS / Go) built for these relay sessions: curl -O …/connect.sh && bash connect.sh "<session-url>" tools.

Pattern (Reverb):

const channel = Echo.private(`agent.session.${id}`);
const transport = attachRelay(server, {
  sendToRemote: (frame) => channel.whisper("mcp", frame),
});
channel.listenForWhisper("mcp", (frame) => transport.deliverFromRemote(frame));

Agents (Claude Desktop, Cline, custom) connect to the same channel via your auth bridge.

Tools shipped (whiteboard bridge)

Tool	Purpose
whiteboard_get_state	Full snapshot
whiteboard_list_items	Summary of every item
whiteboard_get_item	Detail by id
whiteboard_add_sticky / _update_sticky	Sticky CRUD
whiteboard_add_shape / _update_shape	Full shape kit (rect, rounded-rect, ellipse, diamond, triangle, line, arrow, text)
whiteboard_add_connector	Connect two items / points
whiteboard_add_stroke	Pen layer
whiteboard_delete_item	Generic delete
whiteboard_set_viewport	Pan / zoom
whiteboard_set_agent_cursor	Move presence

Security / host obligations

These bridges let an agent drive a human's terminal / files / editor / browser, so the host contract carries real weight. What the package does — and what it leaves to you:

• The MCP server is unauthenticated by design. MicroMcpServer does no per-tool auth — possession of the relay session token = permission to call every tool, including terminal_run. Put it behind an authenticating relay and treat the token as a password. The standalone ai-relay now binds 127.0.0.1 by default (pass --host 0.0.0.0 to expose, with a warning).
• Terminal is staged by default. registerTerminalBridge defaults pendingMode: true and does not expose terminal_confirm/terminal_reject as agent tools (an agent must not confirm its own command). Wire a human control to the returned bridge.confirm(id). terminal_write bytes are written verbatim (an embedded CR runs a command; ANSI/OSC reach the terminal) — set osc52={false} on any agent-driveable <Terminal> and gate writes like runs. { terminals } grants the agent every listed pane unless you pass canAccess.
• Files must be root-scoped by the host. Pass root to registerFilesBridge for a fail-closed string guard, but a host over a real filesystem MUST also realpath to defeat symlink/junction escapes — the bridge can't (it runs in the browser).
• Navigation / forms are trust-but-verify. nav_visit allows only http(s)/relative URLs; form_submit stages on adapter.confirm when pendingMode is on.
• Passkeys are management-only, and that is not a gap. registerPasskeyBridge exposes no tool that completes a WebAuthn ceremony — no passkey_authenticate, no passkey_sign_in — because a ceremony needs a user gesture and a biometric, and a tool that performed one would turn a phishing-resistant factor back into a bearer token. passkey_revoke stages a revoke for the human and has no confirm argument that would apply it (revoking the last passkey is a lockout). passkey_list re-projects onto the public summary fields, so handing it your ORM model cannot leak a public key, a user handle, or a signature counter.
• Activity reaches every peer; tool results reach the caller only if clients label themselves. Since 0.44.0 a reply goes only to the client that asked when clients send a client query parameter; unlabelled clients still get every frame. Notifications are always broadcast. The terminal bridge redacts raw command bytes from broadcast meta, but treat anything you return as visible to every holder of the token — don't return secrets.
• The relay serves SSE and long-poll. Behind Cloudflare (whose HTTP/3 edge resets long SSE streams) install @particle-academy/fancy-cf-relay so the browser polls; see docs/relay-server.md. Pass --cors a list of your sites' origins rather than leaving * on a public relay.

Status

v0.1 — protocol + whiteboard bridge + UI. APIs will evolve before v1.

License

MIT

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