§ 05 · Extend

Skills. MCP.
Yours.

Grove ships batteries included — but nothing is hard-wired. Install a skill once, every installed agent gets smarter. Expose Grove via MCP so an orchestrator agent can drive your tasks. Plug in any custom agent with a launch command or a URL.

$ install grove → Back to home →
Skills marketplace — Explore tab with installable skills grid and per-skill detail
FIG. 01 Install once. Every agent you have, a little smarter.
§ 01 SKILLS
Marketplace

One library.
Every agent.

Grove's Skills page is a full marketplace — Explore to find new skills, Sources to manage where they come from, Agents to see which agents have which skills installed. Per-agent install state and actions. Per-scope install (project or global).

  • Full-stack marketplace — storage + REST API + UI
  • Three tabs: Explore / Sources / Agents
  • Per-agent install buttons — each agent gets its own state
  • Global or project-scoped installs
  • YAML block-scalar support in SKILL.md frontmatter
  • FNV-1a hashing for stable skill IDs across Rust versions
Skills Agents tab — each agent row shows its skill install paths and an enable toggle
FIG. 02 Per-agent install buttons. No batch surprises.
§ 02 MCP SERVER

Grove speaks
both ways.

Grove is a first-class MCP server — grove mcp exposes its task management, notes, reviews, and sketches to any agent that speaks the protocol. At the same time, Grove injects itself into every ACP session so worker agents can read notes and reply to reviews without extra config.

MCP flow — orchestrator drives Grove; Grove injects tools into worker agents
FIG. 03 Both sides of the MCP conversation, configured for you.
Bidirectional

Orchestrator tools.
Worker tools.

Grove filters MCP tools by context. An agent running outside a task sees management tools. An agent running inside a task sees execution tools. Same server, different capabilities, zero chance of cross-wiring.

Management (outside a task)
  • grove_add_project_by_path, grove_list_projects
  • grove_create_task, grove_list_tasks
  • grove_start_chat, grove_chat_status, grove_send_prompt, grove_list_chats
  • grove_edit_note
Execution (inside a task)
  • grove_status, grove_read_notes, grove_edit_note
  • grove_read_review, grove_reply_review, grove_add_comment
  • grove_complete_task
  • grove_sketch_read_me, grove_sketch_list, grove_sketch_read, grove_sketch_draw
Claude Code config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grove": {
      "command": "grove",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}
§ 03 CUSTOM AGENTS

Any agent.
Any protocol.

If it speaks ACP, Grove can launch it — a local binary, a remote URL, or any of the 10 built-in agents Grove already knows about. Add one in Settings → Custom Agents. It shows up in the picker immediately.

Local

Command agents

Any binary that speaks ACP over stdio. Point Grove at a path and arguments — it launches on demand.

Remote

URL agents

Any HTTP endpoint. Useful for hosted agents, or for running an agent on a different machine on your LAN.

Per chat

Model & mode

Every chat remembers the agent, model, and mode you last picked. Availability detection hides offline agents from the picker.

§ 04 HOOKS

Tell me when
it needs me.

Agents run in the background. You shouldn't have to babysit them. grove hooks fires native system notifications so you know when an agent finishes, needs attention, or hits an error.

done

grove hooks notice

Task completed successfully. A gentle chime, a clean notification.

attention

grove hooks warn

The agent is blocked on a permission, a review, or user input.

error

grove hooks critical

Something broke. You probably want to look at this now.

In-app notifications tray showing an agent operation that needs attention
FIG. 04 A small tap on the shoulder — never a wall of alerts.
Native, on every platform

macOS uses UNUserNotificationCenter with a custom Grove icon. Windows fires native toasts. Press h inside Grove to tune sound and notification settings.

Grove is what
you make it.

Extensibility isn't a plugin system tacked on. It's the architecture.