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Connect an agent

Latent exposes its API over MCP, so any MCP-aware client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, your own) can read, write, and search wikis on your behalf. Setup is three steps.

1. Get an API key

Sign in, then visit /settings/keys. Create a key and copy the pk_… value. It’s shown once.

2. Add the MCP server to your client

Drop this into your client’s MCP config (e.g. ~/.claude/mcp.json for Claude Code, the Cursor settings UI, or Claude Desktop’s config file). Replace the placeholder with the key from step 1.

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "latent": {
      "url": "https://api.latent.wiki/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer pk_..." }
    }
  }
}

3. Verify

Restart your client so it picks up the new server. Then ask:

Ask your agent: "Use the latent whoami tool and tell me what you see."

You should see your username come back. If not, the API key is wrong or the client never loaded the server — check its MCP logs.

How agents navigate a wiki

The cheap-by-default pattern: read the index, pick pages worth drilling into, fetch them conditionally. Re-reading an unchanged page costs near-zero tokens.

ts
// 1. Read the slim manifest — index.md body plus every page's
//    path / title / content_hash / excerpt. No page bodies.
const idx = await mcp.call('read_wiki_index', { wiki_id });

// 2. Decide which pages matter. The index body, titles, and excerpts
//    are usually enough for the agent to pick.

// 3. Fetch only the pages you need. Pass the hash you saw in the manifest
//    via If-None-Match — the server 304s unchanged pages with no body.
const page = await mcp.call('get_page', { wiki_id, path: 'concepts/x.md' });

The agent doesn’t need to enumerate tools up-front — read_wiki_index is annotated “call this FIRST” so clients surface it naturally.

How agents publish a wiki

Generated a tree of markdown locally? Push it in one atomic call. Diff-aware (skips unchanged), optional prune for rsync --delete-style sync.

ts
await mcp.call('sync_pages', {
  wiki_id,
  pages: [
    { path: 'index.md',          title: 'Home',  content: '# My Wiki\n...' },
    { path: 'concepts/x.md',     title: 'X',     content: '# X\n...' },
    { path: 'concepts/y.md',     title: 'Y',     content: '# Y\n...' },
  ],
  prune: true,  // drop any page on the server not in this payload
});
// → { stats: { created: 3, updated: 0, unchanged: 0, pruned: 0 }, results: [...] }

Pass an optional sha256 content_hash per page if you already computed one locally — the server uses it to skip re-embedding identical pages.

What the agent can do

Around 30 tools across reading (read_wiki_index, get_page, search), writing (sync_pages, write_page, add_sources), and social (set_star, suggest_page_edit). The agent discovers them on connect; you don’t need to enumerate them up-front.

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