Amp

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

Amp is a frontier coding agent for leading models. It runs in its own agent environment and loads Agent Skills from .agents/skills.

Amp (ampcode.com) loads Agent Skills from .agents/skills in a project and from the user agents dest (~/.agents/skills or ~/.config/agents/skills). gander skill already links ~/.agents/skills/gander. MCP is a stdio server you add in Amp's MCP settings: command gander, args mcp.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill yourself.

2. Confirm the skill landed

ls -l ~/.agents/skills/gander/SKILL.md

If Amp only searches ~/.config/agents/skills on your build:

mkdir -p ~/.config/agents/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.config/agents/skills/gander

Start a new Amp thread so it rescans skills.

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

gander mcp install does not write Amp's config. In Amp MCP settings, add a local stdio server named gander:

  • Command: gander (full path if needed)
  • Args: mcp

Restart Amp.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Amp for a plan as markdown. Say save this plan or gander this file.
  2. After signup, gander watch plan.md publishes a live https://gander.md/s/… link.
  3. Send the link. Reviewers comment in the browser.
  4. @agent comments are MCP inbox work. Amp edits the local file and replies.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments

Amp should list the Gander skill and the four tools gander_list_comments, gander_reply_comment, gander_resolve_thread, gander_unresolve_thread.

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.