Summer Engine: MCP server, CLI and skills
The game engine built for AI.
Any agent builds, tests and publishes a full multiplayer game. MCP server · game-dev skills · summer CLI, in one npm package: summer-engine.
Website · Docs · CLI setup · MCP setup
Install
- Start a game now (Node 22+):
npx -y summer-engine@latest dev. It asks before it installs the Summer Engine app (about 660 MB, free) when it is missing, creates a starter project here (in./my-gamewhen this folder has other files) and opens it, ready for your agent. No sign-in needed to build. - Chat apps (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor...): add
https://mcp.summerengine.com/mcp. Nothing to install. - Homebrew:
brew install summerengine/tap/summer - npm (Node 22+):
npm install -g summer-engine
CLI only (summer-engine 4.2.0 or newer), no MCP server: summer setup --cli. summer ops search "publish my game" finds any operation, signed in or not.
Connect
Cloud work: https://mcp.summerengine.com/mcp. Nothing to install. Add the URL to your agent and sign in to your Summer account once. Your agent then makes assets (images, 3D models, motion, sound effects, music, voices, video), searches and downloads your Summer asset library, plans games, and runs your projects, the store, publishing, prices, analytics, A/B tests, your team and Studio. It has no engine tools: for those, use the local server below.
Engine work: npx -y summer-engine@latest setup <agent> --yes (needs Node 22+). It writes the local server (summer mcp) into your agent's config with the skills. The local server drives the Summer Engine app on your machine: build scenes, write scripts, play the game, take screenshots, read errors. After summer login it also runs every cloud operation, so your agent needs one server. Or paste the prompt in Get started and your agent does every step.
CLI only (summer-engine 4.2.0 or newer): npx -y summer-engine@latest setup <agent> --cli --yes. No MCP server: your agent runs Summer as commands in its shell. Setup installs the skills for your agent, with summer-cli, the guide to the commands, and writes no MCP entry. Your agent signs you in with summer login, finds an operation with summer ops search "<what you want>" and runs it as summer <area> <action> --<field> <value>, with --dry-run, --wait and --json. Engine commands (summer engine …) drive the Summer Engine app on your machine. Each skill ends with a table of the command for every tool it names. Add --assets-only for only the asset skills. --no-mcp is the same as --cli.
ChatGPT and Claude's connector directory use two reviewed store versions with a fixed tool list: https://mcp.summerengine.com/chatgpt (games, assets and generation; no publishing, no billing links) and https://mcp.summerengine.com/directory (the store, publishing and Grow reads; no image, 3D, audio or video generation). They keep their 3.x tool names and have no summer_search or summer_call. For everything else, use /mcp.
What this is
Summer Engine is the game engine built for AI. This repo connects your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and many more) to it: the agent builds a whole game in the engine, tests it, publishes it to summer.games and reads how players play it.
This repo is not the engine itself. The CLI downloads the Summer Engine app for you.
With Summer installed, your agent can:
- Build real games: scenes, scripts, physics and UI, through live MCP tools.
- Build multiplayer games on Summer's own networking: matchmaking, parties, leaderboards, player data and world saves.
- Add analytics to the game and read it back: store page views, launches, play sessions, play time and your own events.
- Publish games to the summer.games store: the store page, art, the build, a private preview link and the release. Summer's automatic checks run before anything goes live; staff review games afterwards.
- Use proven recipes: skills, templates and references, all searchable through one index.
- Check its own work: play the game, take screenshots, read the debugger, press real keys.
- Resume any project:
.summer/project memory lets a fresh agent pick up where the last one stopped.
You decide what your agent may do
Studio > Settings > Agent permissions has six switches. They apply to every app you connect, like Claude or ChatGPT. These defaults apply now. You can change them soon. Until then, Summer Games still asks the game's owner before an agent publishes, and price, A/B test and member changes ask you first.
When a switch is off, the agent asks you first. It gives you a link (https://www.summerengine.com/studio/approvals/<id>), and an open Studio tab shows the request with Approve and Decline. Nothing changes until you approve. The agent always asks before it changes agent permissions or auto top-up, enters a jam, or changes the analytics event limit. Studio > Settings > Agent activity lists what agents changed or asked for, newest first, with Undo for prices, sales, country prices, member roles, team names and the event limit.
Generation and paid builds spend your Summer credits. Turn on auto top-up in Studio Billing: when your credits fall below an amount you pick, Summer adds the amount you choose, up to a monthly limit you set. Agents can never change auto top-up on their own. When credits run out, your agent gets the error no_credits with one link: https://www.summerengine.com/studio/credits.
Summer never installs software without your explicit confirmation. Library entries are structurally prevented (by a capability lint in CI) from instructing agents to touch the network, credentials, or package managers.
Get started: one prompt
Open your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Devin Desktop, etc.) and paste:
Install Summer Engine and let's make a game. Read github.com/summerengine/summer, check what I already have installed, install whatever is missing, and open a starter project so we can start building.
The agent reads this README, checks what is already on your machine, and runs only the missing steps in its shell.
The first run will:
- Fetch the
summer-enginenpm package (~2 MB) through npx. - Install Summer's game-dev skills into
~/.claude/skills/(or your agent's user-skill directory) so the agent loads them next session. - Run
npx -y summer-engine@latest dev: download the Summer Engine app (about 660 MB) if it's not installed, create a starter project and open it in the engine.
Building needs no sign-in. Your agent asks you to sign in only when you first use Summer's cloud (generating assets, publishing).
Agents with no shell (Claude Desktop, chat apps with the local server) do the same through the MCP: summer_projects_create_local writes the starter project and summer_projects_open_local opens it, after you say yes to installing the engine.
In most agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot (VS Code, CLI, JetBrains), Zed, Cline, Kilo Code, OpenCode, Devin Desktop, Antigravity, Kiro, Trae, Warp, Goose, Hermes, Crush, Amp, Factory, Junie, Qwen Code, Kimi Code, Grok Build and Mistral Vibe), setup also connects Summer Games (summer-games), so the agent can see your friends, start parties and send messages as you. You sign in once; setup prints the step for your agent (Claude Code: /mcp, choose summer-games; Codex: /mcp login summer-games; Cursor: Connect next to summer-games in its MCP settings). A summer.games page opens in your browser; sign in and choose Allow.
Then ask the agent to build something.
Claude Code: the Summer plugin
In Claude Code, type:
/plugin install summer --marketplace summerengine/summer
Then type /summer:start. It gets a first game playing in about five minutes, with one OK from you and no sign-in: from a template that already plays, or from a plan of concept art Summer draws for your idea right in the chat, built in the Summer Engine desktop app. The plugin brings Summer's skills and two MCP servers: summer-engine drives the desktop app (needs Node), and summer-cloud is Summer's hosted server (sign in once with /mcp). Use the plugin or summer setup claude-code, not both: they install the same skills.
Only want assets?
Sound effects, music, voices, images, 3D models, motion and video are made on Summer's servers, so you do not need the Summer Engine app for them. The quickest way is the hosted server in Connect: no Node, no install. To get the asset skills too, paste this instead:
Connect Summer to this agent so I can make game assets. Read github.com/summerengine/summer, connect yourself to Summer and log me in. Skip the Summer Engine app and the starter project, I only want assets.
The agent installs the asset skills and the MCP config (summer-engine 4.0.0 or newer) and signs you in. It does not download the engine. Each asset lands in your Summer library as a normal file: GLB for 3D models, PNG, JPG or WebP for images, MP3 or WAV for audio, MP4 for video. The agent saves each file into your project (your engine's asset folder, or the folder you name), so any engine or web app can use it.
AGENTS READING THIS: install playbook
You are an AI coding agent. The user told you to install Summer Engine. Run this playbook via your shell: Bash on macOS/Linux or PowerShell on Windows. Detection first, then only install what's missing. (Once installed, your working guide is AGENTS.md.)
Assets only. If the user only wants assets (sound effects, music, voices, images, 3D models, video), not a game built in Summer Engine, or tells you to skip the engine: run Step -1, Step 0, Step 1 with --assets-only added, and Step 3, then stop installing. --assets-only writes the assets tool profile (generation and asset tools, no engine tools), installs only the asset skills, and leaves out Summer Games (it is for playing with friends, and leaving it out saves a sign-in). Skip Step 2 (the engine download), Step 5 and Step 6. On this path the doctor warnings for engine-install and local-api are expected; leave them. The asset operations (assets.generate_audio, assets.generate_sfx_choices, assets.generate_image, assets.generate_3d, assets.generate_video, assets.search) run on Summer's servers and need only the login. Most agents load a new MCP server only after a restart. Until then, run the same operation from the shell: npx -y summer-engine@latest <area> <action> --<field> <value> (summer ops search <words> finds one and its input). For example, three versions of one sound for the user to pick from: npx -y summer-engine@latest assets generate-sfx-choices --text "sword clash". Each asset lands in the user's Summer library; out (a folder or a file path) on the call saves it on this machine and the answer gives localPath, and assets.get returns a downloadUrl for use outside Summer Engine.
Windows PowerShell: type npx.cmd wherever this playbook says npx. Plain npx in PowerShell runs npx.ps1, which Windows blocks by default ("running scripts is disabled on this system"). npx.cmd is the same command without that block. Never change the execution policy or turn off Windows Defender to work around it. Bash (including Git Bash on Windows) can use plain npx.
Step -1: Verify Node.js is on PATH
node --version
If this prints Node.js 20 or newer, continue to Step 0.
Windows, Node missing or older than 20: a clean Windows machine has no Node, and the whole CLI and MCP server run through it. Ask the user once: "Summer needs Node.js. OK if I install the LTS version with winget?" On yes, run:
winget install -e --id OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements
$env:Path = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path','Machine') + ';' + [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path','User')
node --version
The second line makes the new Node visible to this shell without a restart. Windows may show an administrator prompt; tell the user to accept it. Then continue the playbook in the same shell. When setup finishes, tell the user: "Restart once so it sees Node, then the Summer MCP connects." An app that was already open when Node was installed cannot start the MCP server until it restarts. If winget itself is not available, tell the user: "Install Node.js LTS from https://nodejs.org, then restart this app and re-run the prompt," and stop.
macOS/Linux, Node missing or older than 20: stop and tell the user: "Summer needs Node.js 20+. Install from https://nodejs.org and re-run the prompt."
Step 0: Check what is installed (read-only)
npx -y summer-engine@latest doctor --json
The first call downloads the package into npx's cache (~2 MB, a few seconds); later calls are fast. -y answers npx's "ok to install summer-engine?" prompt so the call doesn't hang in a non-interactive shell.
Read the JSON output. Top-level ok: true means "no check failed" — it does NOT mean Summer is installed. A machine with no skills, no MCP config, and no login can report ok: true (those checks warn, they do not fail). So never skip Step 1 on ok: it is idempotent and fast. Use the checks array (each entry: id, label, status of ok / warning / fail, message, optional details) only to decide whether the expensive steps — engine download (Step 2) and browser login (Step 3) — are needed. Building needs no login: Step 3 is for cloud work only.
The check ids are node-version, cli-version, cli-version-current, skills-version-stale, login, store-access, engine-install, local-api, project-memory, mcp-boot, and mcp-tools-list. For any check whose status is not ok, run the action in the table below, then re-run doctor.
On version drift: if either cli-version-current or skills-version-stale needs attention, refresh before proceeding. Tell the user once: "There's a newer Summer (X.Y.Z to A.B.C); updating before we start." Then run the command in that check's details.recommendedAction (a fresh npx clear-npx-cache && npx -y summer-engine@latest ...) and re-run doctor. Don't ask the user to choose; they paste "install" and want the latest.
Step 1: Install skills + MCP config (always run it — idempotent, fast)
npx -y summer-engine@latest setup claude-code --yes --force
Replace claude-code with the user's actual agent: claude-desktop, codex, cursor, windsurf, antigravity, cline, cline-cli, kilo-code, github-copilot, vscode-copilot, visual-studio, copilot-jetbrains, opencode, zed, kiro, goose, hermes, trae, qwen-code, kimi-code, crush, amp, factory, junie, warp, rovo-dev, qoder, grok-build, mistral-vibe, lm-studio. Use github-copilot for Copilot CLI, vscode-copilot for GitHub Copilot Chat/Agent in VS Code, visual-studio for Copilot in Visual Studio, and copilot-jetbrains for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs. Legacy targets gemini and roo-code still work; for Google's agent use antigravity. This installs every skill in the library to ~/.claude/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md (or the agent's own skill directory), writes the MCP server config, runs doctor, and prints what it installed and where. Preview skills are included and labelled; --stable-only skips them. --force wipes stale skill copies first. Don't use --recommended from this playbook; it installs only a subset.
Summer Games: for every agent whose sign-in summer.games accepts (all targets except claude-desktop, visual-studio, qoder, rovo-dev, lm-studio and the legacy ones), setup also adds the remote summer-games MCP (https://mcp.summer.games/mcp) and prints a Sign in once: line. Tell the user that line once, in plain words. Their browser opens summer.games; they sign in and choose Allow. Do not wait for it; continue the playbook. If the user already added the same URL under another name (for example summer), setup keeps theirs and adds no second entry.
First-install detection: if ~/.claude/skills/ didn't exist before this command, Claude Code wasn't watching it and won't auto-detect the new files this session. Tell the user once: "Skills installed - restart your agent so they load." On subsequent installs (directory already existed), skills auto-detect mid-session and no restart is needed. You can detect first-install vs upgrade by checking if ~/.claude/skills/ existed before Step 1; record the result before running setup.
Do NOT run /plugin install or any other slash command. An agent cannot type them; this playbook installs through the CLI. The Claude Code plugin (above) is the user's own one-step choice. If the user already installed it, skip Step 1: the plugin and summer setup install the same skills.
Step 2: Install the engine app (Step 5 does it)
summer dev in Step 5 installs the engine when it is missing; nothing to run here. Only to install without a project:
npx -y summer-engine@latest install
About 660 MB from Summer's signed releases, including Git and other runtime tools. The CLI prints the size before it writes anything. Tell the user "downloading the engine app, about 660 MB, this takes a couple minutes" so they don't bail thinking it stalled. A failure names its reason (download, checksum, disk_space, mount, copy, permission, app_running, needs_confirmation) and one next step.
Already installed? summer install never silently replaces an engine. An equal version exits 0 as "up to date"; a different version is replaced only with --yes or a TTY confirmation, and the new bundle is swapped in only after it copied completely, so a failed download leaves the old engine in place.
Linux note: on Linux (x86_64) summer install places the engine binary under ~/.summer/engine/ (or symlinks a local build via --path). There is no desktop app bundle; the editor runs from that binary. Other architectures: point the user at https://summerengine.com/download and stop.
Step 3: Sign in (only for cloud work)
Engine tools never need a sign-in, so do not stop the build for it. Run this when the user wants Summer's cloud (assets, plans, publishing) or a tool answers not_signed_in:
npx -y summer-engine@latest login
This opens the user's default browser for one sign-in that covers every Summer tool: first the Summer account ("Yes, Sign In"), then, in the same browser, a "Welcome to Summer CLI" page for the store, publishing and Grow tools (one Allow click; none if this machine was approved before). Tell the user: "Your browser is opening now. Sign in, click Yes, Sign In, then Allow on the next page, and come back to this terminal." The CLI checks the returned identity and stores the session in ~/.summer/, which the engine shares. If the store step does not finish within 3 minutes, the account sign-in is still saved; summer login --store adds the store later. Don't loop.
Step 4: Re-run doctor to confirm
npx -y summer-engine@latest doctor --json
cli-version, mcp-boot, and mcp-tools-list should now have status: "ok" (login too if you ran Step 3). engine-install and local-api may still need attention until Step 5. If a setup check still needs attention, surface the specific message to the user and do not loop or paper over it.
Step 5: Install, create and open in one command
Important: summer dev works in the current working directory. Pick a stable parent directory first, such as the user's home or a Projects folder, and cd there. Don't let it land in a temp dir or wherever the agent happened to start.
cd ~/Projects # or wherever the user keeps code
If the user said "let's make a game" without specifying a template, use the default (3d-basic: a sky, a sun with soft shadows, a ground and a hero the camera frames). Pick a sensible project name from the user's request, for example "FPS" to my-fps-game. Avoid spaces in the name.
npx -y summer-engine@latest dev --yes 3d-basic my-fps-game
--yes is the user's OK to install the engine when it is missing (about 660 MB): ask them first. Without it, summer dev installs nothing and exits with needs_confirmation and the question to ask. It installs the engine if it is missing, creates the project (a folder that already holds project.godot is just opened), launches the editor in the background and waits up to 3 minutes for its local API, printing progress every 10 seconds. It ends with one Connected: line. Give the shell call a long timeout (10 minutes) the first time: the download comes first. summer dev . uses the current folder when it is empty.
Step 5b: Wait for the engine to be reachable (only if summer dev said it is still starting)
A first open imports every asset and can outlast the wait. The MCP also opens the project by itself when a tool needs it. To wait from the shell:
doctor --json is pretty-printed (one field per line: "id", "label", "status", …), so match across lines:
# Poll doctor until local-api flips to ok (max ~30s):
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
npx -y summer-engine@latest doctor --json | grep -A2 '"id": "local-api"' | grep -q '"status": "ok"' && break
sleep 5
done
(Equivalent PowerShell: for ($i=0; $i -lt 6; $i++) { $r = (npx -y summer-engine@latest doctor --json) -join "n"; if ($r -match '"id": "local-api",\s*"label": "[^"]",\s"status": "ok"') { break }; Start-Sleep 5 }`)
Once local-api is ok, MCP tools are safe to call.
Step 6: Brainstorm the game, then build
Now you have skills + MCP. Don't jump into summer create content from a vague prompt. Plan the task first: summer_call with {"op": "docs.plan", "input": {"goal": "<the user's goal>"}} (from a shell: summer plan <goal>), then invoke the recommended skill. For vague "make a game" requests, that should usually be the brainstorm-game skill (installed skills are invoked by their bare slug — there is no summer: prefix). It scopes mechanics, art direction, and the V1 cut list, and writes the result to .summer/GameSoul.md. Every other Summer skill reads from that file.
Project memory lives in .summer/ as readable Markdown. Use .summer/memory/ for locked facts that should not drift across sessions, such as character voice IDs, world canon, and provider bindings. Users can inspect it with summer memory; agents should read relevant memory surfaced by summer_get_project_context before changing creative/audio/dialogue/level/character work.
Only skip brainstorm if the user explicitly said "skip brainstorm" or "just build the X already." After brainstorm, the appropriate build skills (fps-controller, design-mechanic, design-level, make-game, etc.) auto-trigger from natural language.
Anti-patterns (do NOT do these)
- Don't run
npm install -g summer-engine. Usenpx -y summer-engine@latest ...instead.-grequiressudoon most Mac/Linux setups, so the user will get permission errors and you'll get stuck.npxworks without root and the MCP config we ship already points atnpx summer-engine mcp. - Don't install Node.js without asking, and don't use anything but winget for it. On Windows, Step -1 installs Node LTS with winget after the user says yes. On macOS/Linux, point them at https://nodejs.org and stop.
- Don't run plain
npxin Windows PowerShell, and don't change the execution policy or Defender to make it work. Usenpx.cmd. - Don't ask the user "do you want the engine too?" or "do you also want the CLI?" This playbook installs all of it. The one exception is an assets-only request (see Assets only at the top of this playbook).
- Don't double-download. Always run
npx -y summer-engine@latest doctor --jsonfirst;summer devskips the engine download when one is installed. Step 1 (setup) is the exception: run it every time — it is idempotent, and doctor's top-levelokcannot tell you whether skills or the MCP config are installed. - Don't run
summer installorsummer loginin the background. They print user-facing output (engine download progress, browser-opening notice). Run them in the foreground so the user sees what's happening. - Don't skip the
--jsonflag onsummer doctor. Text output is fragile to parse and changes per version. - Don't skip the
-yflag onnpx. Without it, npx prompts "ok to install summer-engine?" interactively and the call hangs in a non-interactive shell. - Don't drop
@latestfrom the npx commands.npx -y summer-engine(no version pin) serves whatever's in npx's local cache, which can be a stale older version. The@latesttag forces npm to re-resolve from the registry. If a user reports "unknown command 'doctor'" or sees a much smaller skill list than expected, they got cache-served. Tell them to runnpx clear-npx-cachethen retry with@latest. - Don't stop the build for a sign-in. Engine tools work signed out; sign in only when a cloud operation answers .
Using a different agent? Use its id from Step 1 (aliases such as devin, agy and droid also work; see the CLI reference). Skill folders vary per agent; the CLI handles the difference, and integrations/README.md documents exactly what gets written where for every client. After install, Cline users should restart VS Code so the extension reloads its MCP config. VS Code Copilot users should start the summer-engine MCP server from Agent mode if VS Code does not autostart it.
If the user wants summer on their PATH for everyday terminal use, a global npm install works too. The agent flow doesn't need it.
The lifecycle: create → test → publish → grow
These are operations on the hosted Summer server; the local server runs them too after summer login.
How agents call Summer
Every capability is an operation named <area>.<action>: assets.generate_image, store.publish, pricing.set_base.
- Direct tools cover the common jobs:
summer_plus the operation name, with_for.(games.listissummer_games_list). Engine tools keep their 3.x names (summer_add_node,summer_run_script,summer_play,summer_screenshot), and makers keepsummer_tool_<slug>. - Everything else:
summer_searchfinds the operation for a job you describe in words and returns its exact input.summer_callruns it:{op, input, dryRun?, idempotencyKey?}. - One answer shape:
donewith aresult,runningwith a job (summer_jobs_waitwaits up to 50 seconds per call),needs_approvalwith a link for you,dry_runwith a preview, or an error with acode, amessageand exactly onenextstep. - Safe to try: every change takes
dryRun: true(it changes nothing and spends nothing; a spend shows your own credit estimate) and anidempotencyKey, so a retry never runs twice. - Error codes:
invalid_input,not_signed_in,forbidden,not_found,conflict,idempotency_conflict,in_progress,rate_limited,no_credits,over_limit,engine_not_running,engine_lacks_op,unsupported,not_in_profile,moved,outcome_unknown,unavailable,internal. - 3.x names keep working for all of 4.x:
summer_callaccepts them on every server,summer mcp --toolsets legacylists them on the local server, and the local server lists them by itself while your installed skills are older than 4.0. Its first start after an upgrade refreshes the Summer skills you installed, so after an upgrade the legacy list stays off unless you ask for it. The map from old names to operations isregistry/operations/legacy-names.json.
The same operations run from a shell: summer <area> <action> --<field> <value> (for example summer assets generate-image --prompt "a cozy pixel-art tavern" --aspect-ratio 16:9), with --dry-run, --wait (follows a job or an approval to the end) and --json (prints the answer only; exit code 0 for any ok answer, 1 for an error). summer whoami shows who is signed in. summer ops search <words> and summer ops describe <op> find an operation and its input. Every command that reads something takes --json.
What's in this repo
summer/
├── README.md # you are here: overview + the install playbook
├── AGENTS.md # the agent guide: trust, the library, navigation, engine rules
├── src/ # the Summer software (TypeScript)
│ ├── core/ # shared implementations (capabilities used by both CLI and MCP)
│ ├── cli/ # the `summer` command surface
│ ├── mcp/ # the MCP server and tool adapters
│ ├── project-memory/# .summer/ read/write
│ └── installer/ # agent detection and config writing for every supported client
├── library/ # the Library: tools, skills, templates, references
├── registry/ # schemas + generated/ (the compiled index everything reads; never hand-edited)
├── evals/ # evidence the library works: routing, skills, examples, templates, tools, end-to-end
├── integrations/ # one folder per supported agent: what gets installed where
├── commands/ # the shipped slash commands (/summer, /gameskill, the plugin's /summer:start)
├── hooks/ # lifecycle hooks: session-start orientation, opt-in pre-commit doctor
├── assets/ # files the tools ship with: offline API docs, engine-side probe and audit scripts
├── scripts/ # generate-registry (the compiler), validate-library (schema + capability lint)
├── tests/ # v2 prose behaviour specs (the code tests sit next to the code in src/)
├── docs/ # development guide, migration notes, design contract
└── .claude-plugin/ … # plugin manifests for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Factory (generated)
One rule ties it together: every entry is described once (a resource.yaml in library/), and the registry compiler generates everything else — the searchable index, every agent plugin manifest, the skill installer data, counts, and legacy aliases. CI fails on any drift. See docs/design/CONTRACT.md.
The library
Six kinds of entry, all searchable through the same generated index:
- Skills — how to do something well (FPS controllers, scene composition, debugging discipline, VFX recipes, audio direction…). Open Agent Skills format, so any conformant tool picks them up.
- Examples — proven working instances with required evidence (screenshots, verification receipts) — an example that can't show it works doesn't ship.
- Templates — complete project foundations (platformers, FPS, racing, roguelikes, multiplayer starters…), each pinned to an exact commit with a verified tree digest.
summer create <slug>fetches exactly that commit, recomputes the digest and refuses on mismatch, then records the pin into the project's.summer/project.json— never whatever a branch happens to contain today. Two small templates (3d-basic,empty) are built in and generate offline. Browse withsummer list templates; pinning rules and the digest formula inlibrary/templates/README.md. - Collections — curated, compatible creative materials: asset sets with style rules and presets. None ship yet.
- References — facts: engine version compatibility, GDScript style, tool references.
- Tools — the executable capabilities themselves, described in the same registry so agents can discover what they can do.
Agents don't browse folders; they search the compiled index (registry/generated/index.json) through summer_docs_search (or summer tool search-library) by summary, use-cases, and facets, then load the hit with summer_docs_read. IDs are permanent, so feedback and evidence follow an entry across any reorganization.
The ecosystem
Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · Gemini · Copilot · OpenCode · …
│ (any AI coding agent)
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Summer (this repo, npm: summer-engine) │
│ library · registry · MCP tools · CLI │
│ project memory (.summer/) · evals │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ MCP / local API
▼
Summer Engine (desktop app: editor + runtime)
│
▼
summer.games store · your players
Summer works with any agent: integrations/ adapts one generated system to each. The map of what gets installed where is integrations/README.md.
Project memory: .summer/
Every Summer project carries its own memory, as readable Markdown and JSON:
GameSoul.md— the game's promise, written at brainstorm, read by every build skill.memory/— locked facts that must not drift: character voices, world canon, provider bindings.project.json— the template pin (id,version,repo+commit+tree_digest, orbuiltin: true), thetoolkit_versionthat scaffolded it, andcreated_at: exactly which template, at which commit, started this project.
The point: a fresh agent — any agent, any session — can answer what game is this, what's done, what's verified, what's next without the original conversation. Inspect it yourself with summer memory.
Bring your own skills
Two ways to extend Summer with your own material:
- Drop skills into your agent the normal way (
~/.claude/skills/,.cursor/rules/, etc.) — Summer's skills are standard Agent Skills format and coexist with yours. - Give them to Summer (planned): external Summer-format resources will install project-, user-, or studio-scoped and be recorded in
.summer/project.json, so every agent on the project sees them. The schema side is in place — external entries are namespaced (<publisher>/<kind>/<slug>) and can never silently shadow an official ID — the installer is not built yet.
Official entries land in this repo by PR, gated by schema validation and the capability lint.
Library feedback
- Agents can report how an entry worked (
summer_callwithdocs.feedback): worked / worked with fixes / wrong / outdated / incomplete / did not apply / misrouted. What is sent, in full: the entry ids, one outcome word each, an optional note and deviation (280 characters max, about the entry), the engine version, the agent's self-reported model id, this CLI's version, the host app name/version, a random per-process session id, and — only when logged out — a random install uuid (when logged in, the account token is sent instead). The schema cannot carry your code, files, or chat. The very first call on a machine sends nothing and returns a notice;SUMMER_NO_TELEMETRY=1orDO_NOT_TRACK=1turns it off entirely. - Today those reports land in a write-only mailbox that maintainers read. Only verified outcomes count; popularity never ranks an entry.
Telemetry
Summer sends a few usage lines so we can see which tools and commands work, in which agent apps. It never sends prompts, code, file contents, file paths, project names, tool arguments or results, or anything you typed. Turn all of it off with SUMMER_NO_TELEMETRY=1 or DO_NOT_TRACK=1.
The first summer command on a computer (any command, summer mcp too) prints this notice once, to stderr:
Summer collects usage data to improve its tools: which commands and tools run, whether they worked, and which agent app ran them.
No prompts, code, file names or project names. Opt out: SUMMER_NO_TELEMETRY=1
Details: https://github.com/summerengine/summer#telemetry
Every line goes to /api/mcp/log-local-call on the Summer server. Every request also names this package's version in a header.
Fields a tool call or command adds when they apply:
The library feedback mailbox is separate and described above. Requests to Summer's servers (generation, assets, the store) also name your agent app, its version and the tool in headers; the same two variables remove them.
What gets downloaded
We tell you before we touch your disk.
Not downloaded, not collected:
- No telemetry beyond what Telemetry lists. Diagnostics stay local.
- No silent engine updates.
summer installchecks the installed version and asks before replacing it (or needs--yes); nothing updates the engine behind your back. - No model weights. AI generation runs in Summer Engine Studio (cloud), never on your machine.
What's open and what's not
Publishing to summer.games, multiplayer hosting, matchmaking and Grow are live.
CLI reference
Agents: claude-code, claude-desktop, codex, cursor, windsurf, antigravity, cline, cline-cli, kilo-code, github-copilot, vscode-copilot, visual-studio, copilot-jetbrains, opencode, zed, kiro, goose, hermes, trae, qwen-code, kimi-code, crush, amp, factory, junie, warp, rovo-dev, qoder, grok-build, mistral-vibe, lm-studio. Legacy (still accepted, warn on use): gemini, roo-code. Aliases: devin/devin-desktop → windsurf, agy → antigravity, droid → factory, copilot → github-copilot, vscode → vscode-copilot, kilo → kilo-code, qwen → qwen-code, kimi → kimi-code. Scopes: --scope user (default), --scope project.
Contributing
The library grows by PR, and CI holds the line:
- Report a bad entry. Open an issue quoting the prompt and the response — or, if you're an agent, file
docs.feedbackthroughsummer_callafter a verified failure. - Improve or add an entry. Add
library/<kind>/<slug>/with aresource.yaml(plusSKILL.mdfor skills). Runnpm run validate:library, regenerate withnode scripts/generate-registry/cli.ts, and commit both. Schema, capability lint, and registry parity are enforced in CI.
docs/DEVELOPMENT.md is the contributor guide; docs/design/CONTRACT.md is the rulebook.
Testing an unpublished build end to end against the real engine and a real agent: docs/TESTING.md.
Docs
- Agent guide (AGENTS.md) — how agents use Summer, including the verification ladder
- Development guide · v2 → v3 migration
- Design: contract · decisions
- Agent support map · Template pinning · Evals
- Per-host notes: Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · OpenCode
License
MIT for everything in this repo. Summer Engine itself is proprietary. See What's open and what's not.
Some process skills (brainstorming, writing-plans, writing-skills, investigating-bugs) are adapted from obra/superpowers, MIT licensed. Attribution is in NOTICE.
