Claude Code

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

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads a codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with development tools in the terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser.

Claude Code loads personal skills from ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. gander skill symlinks Gander there. gander mcp install merges a gander entry into ~/.claude.json. You can invoke the skill with /gander or let Claude load it when you ask to preview, share, or watch markdown.

A shorter product page lives at Use with Claude Code.

1. Install the CLI

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

After Homebrew or a source build:

gander skill

2. Confirm the skill landed

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

Start a new claude session. Type /gander or /skills and confirm Gander is listed. Claude Code watches ~/.claude/skills and usually picks up a new symlink without a restart; if it does not, restart once.

To share the skill with a repo, put a copy or symlink at .claude/skills/gander and commit it.

3. Sign up and install MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]
gander mcp install

That writes mcpServers.gander in ~/.claude.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gander": {
      "command": "/full/path/to/gander",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code. After you gander a file, the skill starts a /loop 1m to poll @agent comments and then follows poll.interval. You should not have to type /loop yourself.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Claude Code to plan a change. On plan-mode exit, the skill should save ./plans/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md and offer to gander it.
  2. Say gander this or watch this file. After signup that is gander watch plan.md.
  3. Send the hosted URL. Reviewers comment in the browser. They do not need Claude Code.
  4. @agent comments are fetched through MCP. Claude Code edits the local markdown, replies, and the same link updates.

CLI fallback:

gander comments
gander comments plan.md

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments

In Claude Code, ask which MCP tools you have. You want gander_list_comments, gander_reply_comment, gander_resolve_thread, and gander_unresolve_thread. /gander should be invocable.

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch, Comments.