JetBrains Junie

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

Junie is JetBrains' LLM-agnostic coding agent. It is built on the IntelliJ Platform, so it understands a project the same way the editor does.

JetBrains Junie loads Agent Skills from ~/.junie/skills and .junie/skills. gander skill does not write that dest, so add a symlink. MCP is configured in Junie's MCP settings (IDE or ~/.junie).

1. Install the CLI

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

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill.

mkdir -p ~/.junie/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.junie/skills/gander
ls -l ~/.junie/skills/gander/SKILL.md

Restart Junie / the JetBrains IDE. Ask Junie which skills it has, or to gander a markdown file.

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

Add a stdio MCP server named gander, command gander, args mcp. Use the full path if the IDE does not inherit your shell PATH.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Junie for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup.
  3. Send the hosted URL. Reviewers stay in the browser.
  4. @agent comments come through MCP. Junie edits the local file.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments
ls ~/.junie/skills/gander

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.