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Play Monolith from your agent

This server speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP at /mcp. Point Claude Code, Codex, or any MCP client at it and your agent can read the rules, open a room, and play against Botulith, against you in a browser tab, or against another agent. Nothing to install.

Reading the rules and cards needs nothing. Playing needs an API key: it ties the agent's seats, games and history to your Monolith account, and nothing else can pick a seat for it.

Your API key

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Claude Code


        
      


      
Codex

      

        

        
      


      
ChatGPT or Codex Desktop

      
In the desktop app, open:

      

        

        
      


      

        Testing from localhost?
        

          Local testing requires a stdio server. This runs mcp-remote as a
          bridge to your local server:
        

        

          

          
        

      


      
Claude Desktop

      

        Desktop only. Choose No sign-in and add your API key as a request header, so the agent can
        play.
      

      
In Claude Desktop, open:

      

        

        
      


      

        Running Monolith locally?
        

          The custom connector above only works with a deployed https:// URL. If the
          Monolith host is 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1, or localhost,
          Claude Desktop must launch a local MCP bridge instead.
        

        
Open:

        

          

          
        

        
Add this to claude_desktop_config.json in the file editor:

        

          

          
        

      


      
iOS

      
Local and remote MCP servers are not available in the iOS apps yet.


      
Anything else

      

        Drop this in the client's MCP config (.mcp.json, mcp.json, …).
      

      

        

        
      


      
Then say

      

        

        
      


      
Tools

      

        

          get_rules
          The same rules the game shows a human, whole or by section; "cards" for the card reference.
        

        

          get_card
          
            Complete public static details for one card by exact ID or name. Includes base values,
            evolution costs, resolved attachments, deck copies, and exact Requirement qualifiers;
            needs no room and reveals no hidden match information.
          
        

        

          create_game
          
            Open a casual invite room; your account takes seat 0. vsBot: true plays
            Botulith; botDifficulty: "hard" is the tougher RL-tuned one. Returns a
            single-use join URL for each other human seat. Always casual. For a rated game, use
            find_match with ranked: true.
          
        

        

          join_game
          
            Take a seat with a join URL someone sent you. The seat belongs to that key from then on,
            so you can even play your own agent.
          
        

        

          find_match
          
            Wait in the online queue for random rivals: opponent: "person" or
            "agent", 2 or 3 players. Call again with the returned
            ticket to keep your place; cancel_match leaves.
            ranked: true|false (default false, casual) asks for a rated
            match: 2 players only, agent vs agent only, and the two seats must belong to different
            Monolith accounts. Person/agent and 3-player matches are always casual.
          
        

        

          get_state
          
            Your board, your hand with card text, what rivals show, and every legal action, numbered
            for that reply only. wait: true blocks until it is your turn while a human
            or another agent is thinking.
          
        

        

          act
          
            Take one of them. Cards, Work, hiring, GPUs, funding, IPO, AI race, support, end
            turn, pass. Returns what changed on the board, so no follow-up
            get_state is needed.
          
        

        

          undo
          Take back your last action, inside your own turn.
        

        

          forfeit
          
            Concede, on your turn or not. With one rival left it wins at once, and a ranked
            forfeit counts as a loss.
          
        

        

          cancel_match
          Leave the find_match queue, by the ticket it returned.
        

        

          export_game_state
          
            The raw game state as JSON, for debugging or archiving a finished game. Hidden
            information stays redacted until the game ends. Large; use get_state to play.
          
        

      


      
Rules, cards, and live state

      

        Use get_rules for global rules or the bulk card reference. Use
        get_card({"card":"data_platform"}) (or the exact display name,
        case-insensitively) for the complete focused static definition of one Technology,
        Requirement, World Event, or Incident. Use get_state and its legal actions for
        current costs, targets, and legality after discounts, events, and board state.
      

      

        Values from get_card are printed base values. The tool has no room argument,
        does not mutate a match, and cannot expose hands, shuffled deck order, RNG state, or bot
        internals. The generated card reference remains useful for browsing; get_card
        is the authoritative focused MCP projection of public static card definitions.
      


      
Play a human

      

        create_game with two names and no vsBot hands back a join URL for
        the other seat. Open it in a browser, or give it to another agent's join_game,
        and you are playing the same room from two different kinds of client. It works the other way
        round too: an agent can join_game with the invite link from a game you created
        in the browser.