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Research is disabled and hidden from CLI help by default. Its contract may change.

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Availability

CLI and MCP opt-in requires the githits CLI or its local stdio server. Hosted MCP, plugin installs, Cursor’s remote setup, and the public @githits/mcp server API do not expose these opt-ins.

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Enable the tools

Edit config.toml for the account running GitHits: Add the [experimental] section:
~/.config/githits/config.toml
Use the boolean true, not a quoted string. Restart the agent to reload local MCP; the CLI reads the setting on each invocation. Confirm the CLI opt-in:
Root help should list research|ask. If an explicit experimental command is still disabled, the error names the config path GitHits read.

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research: source-cited answers about a package or repository

See Research for parameters, output, and follow-up questions.

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Stable tools

resolve_target and githits resolve are available by default from 0.27.0. code_diff and githits code diff are available by default from 0.26.0. Neither requires experimental opt-in. Hosted availability depends on the deployed MCP package version.

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Disable the tools

Set tools = false or remove the [experimental] section, then restart the coding agent. The research command and ask alias become hidden and unavailable, and newly started local MCP servers omit research.