Other clients

Dodil’s MCP server follows the standard, so any MCP-capable assistant can use it. The only decision is the same one as everywhere else: remote or local.

• Runs in the cloud (a website or a hosted assistant) → use the remote server, https://mcp.dodil.io.
• Runs on your machine (an editor or terminal agent) → the local server is usually nicer, because it reuses your CLI login and can use code mode.

Cloud assistants — paste the URL

These connect over HTTPS and log you in through a redirect back to their own website. All of their callback addresses are trusted by Dodil’s identity service, so nothing extra is needed from you:

• Perplexity
• Google Gemini / Antigravity
• Microsoft Copilot Studio

In each, find the connectors / integrations / tools screen, choose to add a custom MCP server, and give it:

Editors — Cursor and VS Code / GitHub Copilot

Both support MCP and both work with Dodil either way.

Recommended — local. Install the dodil CLI and log in with dodil auth login. The installer writes the standard {"mcpServers": …} configuration that these editors read, so in most cases the Dodil tools simply appear after a restart. To add it yourself, the entry is:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dodil": {
      "command": "dodil",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Alternative — remote. If you’d rather not install anything, point the editor’s MCP configuration at https://mcp.dodil.io over HTTP transport instead. The editor opens a browser for you to log in at id.dodil.io.

Desktop and terminal agents

Agents that log in through a loopback callback — a short-lived listener on your own computer at http://localhost/callback or http://127.0.0.1/callback, the standard pattern for desktop apps — are trusted by Dodil’s identity service. That includes:

• Cline
• Continue
• Zed
• Goose
• Tencent CodeBuddy

For all of these, both routes work. The local server is still the better default on a machine where you already use the dodil CLI.

Anything else

If your assistant lets you add “a custom MCP server over HTTP with OAuth”, it will work. Give it https://mcp.dodil.io and let it handle the login. If it only supports API keys or static tokens for MCP, it is not compatible with the remote server — use the local server instead.

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