Trae

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

Trae is ByteDance's adaptive AI IDE. It collaborates in the editor to write and run code.

Trae loads skills from ~/.trae/skills and .trae/skills. The China build uses ~/.trae-cn/skills for the user dest and the same project .trae/skills. gander skill does not write those dests. Add a symlink after install.

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 ~/.trae/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.trae/skills/gander
ls -l ~/.trae/skills/gander/SKILL.md

If you use Trae CN:

mkdir -p ~/.trae-cn/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.trae-cn/skills/gander

Restart Trae. Ask it to list skills 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, in Trae's MCP settings.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Trae for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup.
  3. Send the hosted URL.
  4. @agent comments are MCP inbox work.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

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

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.