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Introspection

dxai writes a manifest after each install so it knows exactly what it changed:

  • System manifest — ~/.dxai/manifest.json
  • Project manifest — ./.dxai/manifest.json

Three commands consume it:

Terminal window
dxai list           # what's installed (system + project)
dxai status         # drift between manifest and live config
dxai doctor         # validate install (configs parse, env vars, tools on PATH)

status reports both missing entries (recorded but no longer in config) and extra entries (in config but not added by dxai). All three commands support --json. doctor exits 1 if any error-severity finding is reported.

For a deeper health check, dxai doctor --handshake actually spawns each installed stdio MCP server, sends a JSON-RPC initialize, and verifies the reply — catching servers that are configured but broken. Remote/URL servers and servers with unset required env vars are reported as skipped.

The manifest also makes dxai cleanup precise — it only removes things dxai actually installed — and dxai rollback can restore any dxai-managed file from its most recent .bak.<ts> backup.