About Olbrain Alchemist
Olbrain Alchemist is an agent builder for creating, testing and publishing Olbrain AI agents from Claude Code, Codex or Claude.ai. It pauses for approval before publishing or making changes live, and can connect live agents to websites or code.
Key features
- 01Plan, build and test agents
- 02Approval cards for consequential changes
- 03Manage organisations and builds
- 04Connect live agents to websites or code
- 05Add a website chat snippet or server route
Use cases
- 01Build a support agent from a description
- 02Review an agent before publishing it
- 03Connect an agent to a website or application code
MCP support
The Alchemist MCP server provides tools for account and organisation access, agent building, approval responses, build status and connecting live agents. It can be added in Claude Code, Codex and Claude.ai using its MCP URL.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/claude mcp add --transport http com-olbrain-alchemist https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/{"mcpServers":{"com-olbrain-alchemist":{"type":"http","url":"https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"com-olbrain-alchemist":{"type":"http","url":"https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"com-olbrain-alchemist":{"type":"http","url":"https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/"}}}{"mcpServers":{"com-olbrain-alchemist":{"serverUrl":"https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEAlchemist
Build, test and publish Olbrain AI agents from Claude Code, Codex or claude.ai. You describe the agent; Alchemist, Olbrain's agent builder, plans it, builds it, tests it and asks you before anything goes live.
Install
Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Olbrain/alchemist-plugin
/plugin install alchemist@alchemist
Then run /mcp, pick alchemist and sign in with your Olbrain account. New to
Olbrain? Choose Create account on the sign-in page.
Codex
codex mcp add alchemist --url https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/
codex mcp login alchemist
Optional: copy plugins/alchemist/skills/alchemist to ~/.agents/skills/alchemist so
Codex follows the same workflow as Claude.
claude.ai and Claude Code on the web
Add a custom connector with the URL https://alchemist.olbrain.com/mcp/
(Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector; on Team and Enterprise plans an owner
adds it under Organization settings → Connectors). Then click Connect and sign in.
Use it
- Ask in plain words: "Use Alchemist to build an agent that answers questions about our pricing and hands refunds to a person."
/alchemist:build <what the agent should do>starts a build.- "Put my support agent on my website" or "call my intake job when our signup form is sent": Claude adds the chat snippet, or a server route that calls the agent, to your project. It never puts your API key in browser code.
/alchemist:statusshows your account, organisation, builds and any cards waiting on you.
Before Alchemist publishes an agent, makes it live, merges agents or changes how one behaves, it stops with an approval card. Claude shows you the card and waits for your choice, and Claude Code asks your permission before sending it.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
whoami | Who you are signed in as, and your organisations |
create_org | Create an organisation and make it active |
select_org | Switch your active organisation (everywhere you are signed in) |
list_members | Who is in your organisation |
alchemist | One builder turn: describe or continue a build |
alchemist_answer | Send your choice on an approval card |
alchemist_builds | List your builds |
alchemist_build | One build: its plan, agents and waiting cards |
alchemist_stop | Stop the turn a build is running |
alchemist_connect | Put a live agent on your website or call it from your code |
Inviting people and joining an organisation happen in Noesis. Every build can also be opened there.
Privacy
Every tool call goes to https://alchemist.olbrain.com, which acts as you in Olbrain. It
keeps your Olbrain sign-in encrypted so you stay signed in, and you can end that at any
time by removing the connection.
Once an agent is live, its go-live steps call Olbrain's agent API at
https://webhook.olbrain.com with your organisation's API key: to test it, upload a
file for a job, start a job, or from the server route Claude adds to your app. You run
those commands yourself, and the key stays in your own environment.
Olbrain's privacy policy: olbrain.com/privacy.html.
Licence
Copyright Olbrain. All rights reserved.
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