Intern CLI

intern gives coding agents and people direct access to TryIntern's hosted tools, without requiring MCP support in the coding agent. It talks directly to https://tryintern.dev/mcp.

Connect through MCP

If your agent supports remote MCP, add https://tryintern.dev/mcp and follow the sign-in prompt. No local MCP package is needed. See the connection guide for host-specific setup.

This repository also holds the hosted connector's marketplace manifests. See the listing kit. These files describe the hosted service, not a local MCP server supplied by the CLI.

Gemini CLI also discovers the repository's skills/intern instructions when installing the extension. This shared skill uses an existing hosted MCP connection directly; its CLI instructions apply to terminal use without that connection or an explicit CLI request. The hosted extension does not require installing the npm package.

Install

npm install --global --@archastro:registry=https://registry.npmjs.org @archastro/intern
intern login

Login opens TryIntern in your browser and stores the resulting OAuth refresh session in ~/.config/intern/credentials.json with mode 0600.

Publish a site

Point publish at a deploy-ready static directory. New slugs are created and published in one call. Existing slugs are updated against their exact current revision, uploading changed files and deleting files absent from the directory.

intern publish ./dist --site launch-room

Sites stay private unless visibility is changed explicitly:

intern visibility launch-room public
intern invite launch-room teammate@example.com

.git, .intern, node_modules, local environment files, private keys, and symlinks are not published. Source limits are checked before any remote write.

Use from a coding agent

All output is JSON. The live remote MCP schemas are authoritative:

intern tools
intern call intern_auth_status '{}'
intern call intern_create_site --input-file request.json
printf '%s' '{"site":"launch-room"}' | intern call intern_get_site_source

intern call exposes every hosted tool, including tools added after this CLI was installed. intern resources and intern read expose the MCP resource surface as well.

Common shortcuts:

intern status
intern sites
intern source SITE
intern plugins [SITE]
intern guide
intern fetch URL
intern guests SITE
intern revoke SITE GRANT_ID
intern delete SITE --yes

Use INTERN_ACCESS_TOKEN for an ephemeral bearer override. Development and self-hosted tests can set INTERN_BASE_URL or pass --origin.