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Feature Request: Add MCP to modes config #852
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There are two parts to it - tool permissions and context management.
- Tool Permisions: pretty much the same as the built in tools but with the ones provided from MCPs instead.
- Context Management: There's probably a lot that could be done to provide the minimum amount of information needed at all time. In this case, I wouldn't want to have all of the tool descriptions of all my MCP servers provided in all modes.
Can think of many modes I would like to make (like git/gh, research, security, debug, deploy, etc...) that would use different sets of MCPs, and having each mode only have the tool descriptions for what I need it to do sounds really smooth.
Reacted by KiKaraage, Matt Klich, Maximilian Bode, Simon Hackler, sroidl-airup and Axel H.
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[-]Add MCP to modes config[/-][+]Feature Request: Add MCP to modes config[/+]elementalvoid commentedon Aug 4, 2025
This would be wonderful for both Modes and Agents.
rekram1-node commentedon Aug 29, 2025
You can do this now, say I want an agent that does research with context7 but I dont want that mcp to be available for other agents
You can do something like:
{ "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json", "agent": { "research": { "description": "use this agent for reading docs or researching stuff", "tools": { "context7*": true } } }, "tools": { "context7*": false } }So in this configuration I am disabling the context7 tools for all agents besides
researchSince this issue was made "modes" have become "agents" so there is a bit of change but this should accomplish what you've requested, lmk if you need further assistance