Five minutes to your first Context Capsule.

Option 1 — attach the MCP server to your agent

Add the dialectica server to Claude Code or Codex, then ask your agent to build a capsule from a folder of your own documents.

# Claude Code
claude mcp add dialectica -- cargo run -p dialectica-mcp --

# Codex (config.toml)
[mcp_servers.dialectica]
command = "cargo"
args = ["run", "-p", "dialectica-mcp", "--"]
cwd = "/path/to/dialectica"

13 tools, including:

• · dialectica_build_capsule — compile a capsule from a folder of your documents
• · dialectica_inspect_capsule — summarize any bundle
• · dialectica_validate_capsule — check it against the spec
• · dialectica_ladybug_query — query the embedded graph with Cypher
• · dialectica_export_praxis_pack — emit an agent-ready context pack
• · dialectica_archive_capsule — write the portable .capsule archive

Option 2 — the CLI

# clone and install the open-source engine
git clone https://github.com/sargonxg/A3_DIALECTICAbyTACITUS_v3 dialectica
cd dialectica
cargo install --path crates/dialectica-cli

# build a capsule from your own documents
dialectica build-docs --input ./my-documents --out ./my-capsule --type situation

# inspect, validate, archive
dialectica inspect ./my-capsule
dialectica validate ./my-capsule
dialectica archive ./my-capsule --out my-first.capsule.zip

Requires Rust 1.81+. Local-first by design: capsule builds run entirely on your machine — documents, review decisions, and output never leave it.

The spec