Help - MCP using Aider Tools and in general adding files

[illumineawake]

Hey, love the project and was hesitant to raise an issue (so I DM'd you on Disc) as I am assuming this is just user error.

For the record I have never used MCP before, so if there was some other configuration required maybe I've missed it.

When I ask Aider-Desk to add files related to a certain feature I get a whole bunch of errors related to tools, e.g.:

• It seems there's an issue with the tool aider-desk-get_addable_files. I'll try getting all addable files first without any filter.
• It seems there's an issue with retrieving the list of addable files.
• It seems the tools required to automatically find and add files are currently encountering errors. I am unable to add the files relevant to the "context files pane" at this moment.
• It seems like the tool returned an error. I will try again.

I have done the likes of npm install, dependencies etc.

My Aider-Desk configuration looks like:

and

and
{ "mcpServers": { "aider-desk": { "command": "node", "args": [ "C:/Users/---myusername---/AppData/Roaming/aider-desk/mcp-server/aider-desk-mcp-server.js", "/path/to/project" ], "env": { "AIDER_DESK_API_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:24337/api" } } } }

[wladimiiir]

Hi, thanks for trying out AiderDesk.

I will try to guide you.

There are 2 separate things here: AiderDesk using other MCP servers and AiderDesk used as MCP server in some other MCP clients (Claude, Cursor...).

If you are only using AiderDesk, you don't need to add the AiderDesk MCP server, actually that's kind of an inception which might make issues 🙂

First try to remove aider-desk from MCP servers and try again. If you check Use aider tools the MCP agent will use them internally.

Let me know how that goes. Thanks.

[wladimiiir]

BTW, if you don't have any other MCP server, it currently does not really make sense to have MCP agent enabled. I am currently working on some improvements, which would make the agent more useful even without the MCP servers, but not sure when that will be finished.