Connect your agent

Pensieve for Qwen Code

This page tells you how to connect Qwen Code to Pensieve over MCP, and what changes on your computer.

Connect Qwen Code

Run one of these commands:

pensieve integrate recommended   # every agent on this computer
pensieve integrate qwen-mcp qwen pensieve-search   # only Qwen Code

Restart Qwen Code. It loads its MCP servers when it starts.
Ask Qwen Code a question about your code, for example “where do we retry failed webhooks?”.

Add-on	Id	File
MCP server	`qwen-mcp`	`~/.qwen/settings.json`
Instructions block	`qwen`	`~/.qwen/QWEN.md`
Skills	`pensieve-search`	`~/.agents/skills` (Qwen Code 0.25 and later), or a link in `~/.qwen/skills` for older versions

The instructions block goes in ~/.qwen/QWEN.md, between  markers.

Add this entry to ~/.qwen/settings.json. Use the full path of your pensieve command. To find it, run which pensieve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pensieve": {
      "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/pensieve",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Pensieve indexes your Qwen Code sessions from ~/.qwen/projects. Thus search with kind:session also finds earlier Qwen Code work.

pensieve integrate qwen-mcp qwen --remove

Pensieve removes only the entries that it added.

See also: scopes, the MCP tools, and the benchmark.

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