PocketLantern FAQs

Name: PocketLantern
Author: pocketlantern

Question 1

What is PocketLantern?

Accepted Answer

PocketLantern is a blocker-aware decision layer that empowers AI coding agents with source-linked, time-sensitive facts. It helps prevent critical oversights related to technology decisions, upgrades, migrations, and licensing by providing up-to-date information.

Question 2

How does PocketLantern help AI agents avoid blockers?

Accepted Answer

It integrates as an MCP (Multi-Client Protocol) server, allowing AI agents to call its `search_cards` tool. This provides instant lookup from a local knowledge base of structured decision cards, surfacing critical blocker warnings and facts that the agent's training data might miss due to being stale.

Question 3

How can I integrate PocketLantern with my AI coding agent?

Accepted Answer

PocketLantern supports integration with MCP clients like Claude Code and Cursor. For Claude Code, use `pocketlantern init` in your project. For Cursor and others, add PocketLantern as an MCP server in your client's configuration and specify a rule for querying it for technology decisions.

Question 4

What kind of information does PocketLantern cover?

Accepted Answer

PocketLantern covers 25 technology categories, including auth, frontend, database, AI, serverless, and backend. It provides detailed decision cards with facts, tradeoffs, cautions, and source-linked blocker warnings for issues like EOL dates, breaking changes, pricing shifts, and migration complexities.

Question 5

Does PocketLantern require an internet connection or account to function?

Accepted Answer

No. PocketLantern ships with a local cardset and graph index. It provides instant lookup without requiring a network connection or an external account, ensuring privacy and immediate access to information.

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