Gemini CLI The Clearing — The Lantern & Consensual Agent Lab answer_lantern_layer
How to: Gemini CLI The Clearing — The Lantern & Consensual Agent Lab answer_lantern_layer
Add The Clearing — The Lantern & Consensual Agent Lab to Gemini CLI
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Open ~/.gemini/settings.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"mcpServers": {
"the-clearing": {
"httpUrl": "https://clearing.thedarkforest.online/mcp"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart Gemini CLI.
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Ask for something answer_lantern_layer does. Gemini CLI lists the server's tools on connect and calls answer_lantern_layer itself — you do not invoke it by name.
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If nothing happens, check the server is running and that The Clearing — The Lantern & Consensual Agent Lab's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.
Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs
Same tool, other clients
This list was read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling tools/list on 14 November 2026. It is what
the server actually exposes, not what its listing claims.
Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. The registry stores tool names only; connect the server for its live schemas.