Axis

@virsanghavi/axis-server

One coordination board for a team's coding agents.

Your teammate's Claude Code is editing auth.ts right now. Your Cursor is about to. Neither knows about the other, and git only tells you afterwards.

Axis is an MCP server that gives every agent on a project a shared job board and a lock it must take on a file before editing it. Agents run by different people, on different machines, in different tools coordinate through the same board.

agent-A  propose_file_access src/auth.ts   ->  GRANTED
agent-B  propose_file_access src/auth.ts   ->  REQUIRES_ORCHESTRATION
                                               held by agent-A: "adding refresh tokens"

Install

npm install -g @virsanghavi/axis-server

Connect an agent

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope project --transport http axis https://useaxis.dev/api/mcp

Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, and anything else that speaks MCP, in the client's config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "axis": {
      "url": "https://useaxis.dev/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Authenticate with OAuth, so there is no key to manage. A Bearer API key from useaxis.dev works too. Tools land server side, so there is nothing to update on your machine when they change.

Run it locally instead

The hosted board is what makes coordination work across people. If you want the server in your own process:

axis-server

Variable	Purpose
AXIS_API_KEY	Board credential, from useaxis.dev
AXIS_API_SECRET	Paired secret for that key
AXIS_ORG_ID	Pin the board to one org, when you belong to several
AXIS_WORKSPACE_ROOT	Repository root, if your agent host does not supply one

Axis derives project identity from the active repository and rebinds itself when an agent moves to a different one, so jobs and locks do not leak between repos.

What agents get

Coordination: post_job, claim_next_job, complete_job, list_jobs, propose_file_access, verify_file_lock, release_file_access, list_locks, list_agents, finalize_session.

Shared context: get_project_soul, update_project_soul, update_shared_context, read_context, search_codebase, search_docs.

Why not git worktrees

Worktrees isolate files. They do not isolate intent. Two agents in two worktrees can both decide the auth refactor is next, both do it correctly, and produce zero merge conflicts. You paid twice and now you throw one away. Claiming the work before you start is the part worktrees cannot do.

Links

• useaxis.dev
• Two agents, one file
• Source

AGPL-3.0.