denario

Denario Assistant (Claude Code plugin)

Specialized Claude Code assistance for driving the Denario multi-agent research assistant over MCP — the end-to-end pipeline (idea → methods → results → paper) and the underlying cmbagent_lg analysis engine.

What you get

• /denario:explain — passive knowledge skill: the two MCP servers (denario, cmbagent_lg), the pipeline stages and which tool runs each, the params.yaml control surface (per-role/multi-provider models, max_n_steps, the VLM image-reviewer), and crash-recoverable restart. Auto-loads when the conversation is about Denario, denario_results/denario_idea/…, cmbagent_lg, params.yaml analysis models, or restart_at_step.
• /denario:run-pipeline <project_dir> [data description] — runs the full pipeline end-to-end through the denario MCP tools (lay out the project → idea → methods → results → paper), configured from params.yaml; reports a concise summary.

Prerequisite: the MCP servers

This plugin tells Claude how to use the Denario MCP tools; you must have the two servers registered (they ship with Denario, in denario/mcp_servers/):

LGPY=/Users/boris/pyvenvs/py312-cmbagent-lg/bin/python
DEN=/Users/boris/GitHub/Denario/denario/mcp_servers
claude mcp add denario     -s user -- $LGPY $DEN/denario_server.py
claude mcp add cmbagent_lg -s user -- $LGPY $DEN/cmbagent_lg_server.py

See /denario:explain → reference.md for keys, the venv, and gotchas.

Install (the plugin)

Local testing (no marketplace needed):

claude --plugin-dir ~/GitHub/denario-claude-plugin

From a marketplace (once published):

/plugin marketplace add borisbolliet/denario-claude-plugin
/plugin install denario@denario-claude-plugin

Try it

/denario:explain
How do I configure a multi-provider results run and turn on the image reviewer?

/denario:run-pipeline ~/Desktop/sho-study "A 1D damped harmonic oscillator: study amplitude/energy decay vs damping."

Layout

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
plugins/denario/
  .claude-plugin/plugin.json
  skills/
    explain/
      SKILL.md          # main knowledge skill (how to use the Denario MCP)
      reference.md      # tool signatures, full params.yaml schema, registration
    run-pipeline/
      SKILL.md          # end-to-end pipeline over MCP

Notes

• MCP-first. Unlike the cobaya plugin (CLI via Bash), Denario is driven through MCP tools (mcp__denario__*, mcp__cmbagent_lg__*). The run-pipeline skill pre-approves the pipeline tools in allowed-tools.
• denario_results is long and synchronous; for non-blocking runs use cmbagent_lg_execute + cmbagent_lg_status.
• Legacy stages. denario_eda and the cmbagent-keyword paper path need the old cmbagent package, which is not in the cmbagent-lg venv — they're out of scope here.

License

MIT