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The AI Dock

The AI Dock is one place to browse, install, and create the AI building blocks PaddleBoard supports: agents, skills, and MCP servers.

Open it from the command palette → ai dock: Open.

Tabs

  • Agents — register a custom agent server by registry ID (Add Agent), or install a catalog agent: Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Antigravity, Zed Agent, and the framework agents (Google ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, A2A). CLI-based agents show a Set Up button that opens a terminal with the install command rather than running it inside the app.
  • Skills — install bundled slash-command skills with Add to project / Add to user, or Create Skill to write a new .claude/commands/ markdown command. The bundled set is /build, /update-tour, /clippy, /test, /check-drift, /build-mcp, /verify, /review, and /security-review.
  • Personas — browse and install the bundled personas (Senior Developer, Site Reliability Engineer, QA Engineer) into a project or your user directory.
  • MCP — add and manage Model Context Protocol servers, with live status and streaming logs — or Build an MCP to have an agent generate one for a service that has none. See Sandboxed Execution & MCP.
  • Usage — the local, per-provider, per-model token history described in Settings Reference. Nothing here leaves your machine.

The catalog is data-driven from assets/ai_dock/catalog.json in the repo — additions are pull requests, not network fetches.