chapmanjw/rutherford-kiro-crew-app

Rutherford — Kiro Crew App  |  MCP Server

Give your AI coding agent a crew — as a Kiro Crew app.

A Kiro Crew app that registers the Rutherford MCP server, installs the Rutherford skills, and ships the rutherford-orchestrator agent to set up, configure, and drive a crew of coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Goose, and more — over the Agent Client Protocol. Hand work to one agent, ask several in parallel, or have them argue it out.

This repo is the Kiro Crew port of the Rutherford Claude plugin. Because GitHub does not allow a single account to own both a repo and a fork of it, this is not a GitHub “forked from” repo — instead it descends from the plugin’s git history and tracks it as the upstream remote, so git diff upstream/main and git pull upstream main work as they would on a fork.

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Install into Kiro Crew

Prerequisite: uv on your PATH — the app launches the MCP server with uvx.

This repo doubles as its own external registry: its root holds an app-registry.json index that lists this app. So you can add the repo as a registry and install Rutherford one-click from the App Store — no clone required. (The manual git clone + kirocrew app install route still works and is documented below as the contributor path.)

App Store install (recommended)

1. Add this repo as a registry. In the dashboard, go to Settings → Apps → Registries → Add and enter:

   Field	Value
   Name	Rutherford
   Repo	https://github.com/chapmanjw/rutherford-kiro-crew-app
   Branch	main
   Trust	index

   Or add it to the registries list in ~/.kiro/crew/config.json:

   {
     "registries": [
       {
         "name": "Rutherford",
         "repo": "https://github.com/chapmanjw/rutherford-kiro-crew-app",
         "branch": "main",
         "trust": "index"
       }
     ]
   }
   

   Kiro Crew reads the repo’s app-registry.json, and Rutherford appears in the App Store.

2. Install Rutherford from the App Store (Browse → Rutherford → Install). Kiro Crew clones this repo and reads app.json from its root.