Lockstep

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About Lockstep

Lockstep is a decision-memory CLI for engineering teams. It gathers decisions from team tools, confirms them with owners, and briefs MCP-compatible coding agents before work begins.

Key features

01Capture decisions from team tools
02Owner confirmation for decisions
03Agent briefings at session start
04Flag work conflicting with locked decisions
05Hooks and MCP onboarding

Use cases

01Brief an agent before a coding session
02Check proposed work against confirmed decisions
03Collect engineering decisions from team workflows

MCP support

Lockstep configures MCP for coding agents and provides session-start briefs with decision context. It also flags work that conflicts with locked decisions.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lockstep-team-agent-lockstep": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "lockstep-cli"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LOCKSTEP_VENDOR": "<LOCKSTEP_VENDOR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run commandnpx -y lockstep-cli

Environment variables to set

LOCKSTEP_VENDORAgent vendor label used for session registration (e.g. claude-code, cursor). Optional; defaults to unknown.

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages

npmlockstep-cli0.3.2stdio

Tools

Saved tool list · updated 2w ago

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
summary	string	Yes
surface	string	No
diffHash	string	No
riskTier	enum	No	owned \| shared \| contract
verified	boolean	No
capabilityRef	string	No
contractDelta	any	No
verifiedAgainst	string	No

Details

From the project README

lockstep-cli

The CLI for Lockstep — one source of truth for every engineering decision, read by every human and every AI agent before work starts.

Lockstep captures decisions automatically from Slack, Notion, Jira, and pull requests, gets each one confirmed by its owner, briefs any MCP-compatible coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, and others) at session start, and flags work that contradicts a Locked decision before it ships.

Install

npm install -g lockstep-cli

Quick start

lockstep login     # authenticate
lockstep onboard   # one step: wire up hooks + MCP for your agent, link this repo
lockstep status    # check auth + config health

Full setup, MCP configuration, and self-hosting (Apache-2.0, one docker compose up):

Website: https://www.getlockstep.dev
How it works: https://www.getlockstep.dev/how-it-works
Source: https://github.com/lockstep-team-agent/lockstep

Star the repo

If Lockstep helps your team, star it on GitHub so other teams can find it.

License

Apache-2.0

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