[EPIC] Blessed MCP Install Helper #310

Overview

A fresh AURA install can reason, but it cannot do useful work against a practitioner’s environment until it is connected to real data. Today, that connection requires the user to manually edit the config.toml file and add MCP servers, and then configure the per-worker allow & deny lists.

The goal is to build a supported, opinionated MCP install helper that turns this work into a guided flow. The helper should take a user from “AURA is installed” to “AURA can successfully use tools against my data” without cloning a repository, building from source, or hand-authoring MCP configuration.

This epic serves the five-minute-install goal in #370 and provides the reusable integration path consumed by the quick-start experience in #311.

User outcome

A practitioner with AURA and the credentials required by a supported data source can:

• Discover the MCP setup flow from within the aura chat interface.
• Install or configure the MCP server through a guided interaction.
• See its prerequisites and the access AURA will require.
• Provide credentials without leaking them
• Have AURA update its configuration without destroying unrelated settings.
• Run an automatic connection and tool-discovery check.
• Receive a useful starter prompt that exercises the newly connected integration.

For the primary supported path, this journey must fit within the initiative’s five-minute install-to-value target.