diff --git a/mcp/config.ts b/mcp/config.ts
index e549e89..4f25d39 100644
--- a/mcp/config.ts
+++ b/mcp/config.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 import type { McpServerConfig } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";
 import { fromHere } from "@ark/fs";
 import { parseRepoContext } from "../utils/github.ts";
-
-export const ghPullfrogMcpName = "gh-pullfrog";
+import { ghPullfrogMcpName } from "./index.ts";
 
 export type McpName = typeof ghPullfrogMcpName;
 
diff --git a/mcp/index.ts b/mcp/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..368769c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mcp/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// for reasos this can't live alongide config.ts
+// because its imported into the frontend UI
+// and we don't want to pull in FastMCP, etc
+export const ghPullfrogMcpName = "gh-pullfrog";
diff --git a/modes.ts b/modes.ts
index 6364f21..80034d3 100644
--- a/modes.ts
+++ b/modes.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { ghPullfrogMcpName } from "./mcp/config.ts";
+import { ghPullfrogMcpName } from "./mcp/index.ts";
 
 export const modes = [
   {