fleet_agent_start: Start an agent

Name: Fleetctl
Brand: Fleetctl
Author: Fleetctl

Start an enabled, stopped agent by fuzzy name. Fleet exposes this through `fleet mcp serve`, so Claude Code can operate against your local agent fleet without a hosted broker or a separate management console.

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What this solves

Switching between an MCP conversation and separate terminal commands breaks operational context.

Try it in Claude Code

Start backend-dev.

Launches the selected agent.

Tool category

Agent Tools

Create, inspect, start, stop, and remove Fleet-managed agents.

Guardrail

Mutating; requires a named agent.

More agent tools

fleet_agent_list →fleet_agent_stop →fleet_agent_create →fleet_agent_delete →

Connect this tool from any MCP client

Hosted Streamable HTTP is https://app.fleetctl.ai/mcp. Local stdio is `fleet mcp serve`. Install how-to: /docs/mcp-tools/.

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