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qURL MCP Server

Mint, resolve, audit, and rotate scope-limited expiring access links (qURLs) for AI agents.

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Status

Pod has not dialled qURL yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

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Published as @layervai/qurl-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

17 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

decide hosting boundary for public legal and video pages

Context

PR #182 originally added public legal and video HTML routes to the MCP process. That expands an authenticated protocol server into a general public web host and needs an explicit product and architecture decision.

Decision needed

  • Should these pages live in qurl-mcp, a dedicated web service, or an existing LayerV site?
  • Who owns content updates, localization, CSP, caching, accessibility, and uptime?
  • Which routes must be public, and which deployment topology serves them?

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

feat: design authenticated email delivery with recipient controls

Context

PR #182 originally included SMTP-backed email delivery alongside the HTTP transport. Email is a security- and abuse-sensitive capability and should be reviewed as its own feature rather than riding with transport support.

Scope

  • Define who may send mail, which recipients are permitted, and how authorization is enforced per request.
  • Add quotas and rate limits that cannot be bypassed by rotating MCP sessions or API keys.
  • Prevent header injection, arbitrary sender identities,

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

feat: add upload and text-to-PDF qURL tools in a focused change

Context

PR #182 originally combined authenticated HTTP transport with file upload, data upload, and text-to-PDF tools. The transport work is being narrowed so it can be reviewed and shipped independently.

Scope

  • Add the file/data upload tool family and text-to-PDF generation as a separate, cohesive change.
  • Define explicit size limits, MIME validation, temporary-file cleanup, and timeout behavior.
  • Keep generated assets out of the repository unless their licensing and package-size im

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

Parameterize publish-mcp-registry composite action with publisher-version / publisher-sha256 inputs

Background

PR #94 extracted the mcp-publisher install/validate/login/publish sequence into a composite action at .github/actions/publish-mcp-registry/action.yml, with the publisher version (v1.7.2) and sha256 hardcoded inline. CLAUDE.md §"MCP Registry" treats that file as the single source of truth.

Problem

Bumping mcp-publisher (version + sha256) currently requires editing the action file directly on a branch and seeing it execute against the live registry on the next release-ple

Read the thread · 2026-04-29 · open · 1 comment

Audit MCP tools; ensure clean hide_url tool aligned with SDK/docs naming

Problem

qurl-mcp is the direct AI integration point (MCP server → Claude / Cursor / other MCP clients). If its tool names and parameters diverge from the SDK helpers (hideUrl, hide_url) or the quickstart docs, AI consumers will get confused cross-referencing.

Expected

Audit current tool set. Ensure:

  • A primary hide_url (or equivalent) tool exists, named consistently with the SDK helpers
  • Parameters mirror hideUrl() / hide_url() signature: target_url, expires_in, optional

Read the thread · 2026-04-24 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Most recent

Add connector cleanup for upload-to-mint partial failures

Business relevance

An upload can succeed at the connector and then fail while minting its qURL. Today the MCP server logs the orphaned resource_id, but the connector exposes no delete endpoint, so operators must clean it up manually. A cleanup contract prevents storage leaks and makes upload workflows transactional from the user's perspective.

Current behavior

  • Connector upload succeeds and returns resource_id.
  • mintLink fails.
  • qurl-mcp logs the orphaned ID and returns the min

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · open · 0 comments

ci: consider environment gate on manual publish-mcp-registry workflow_dispatch

Context

Follow-up surfaced by the Claude review on #124 (which added environment: npm-publish to the auto-publish job in release-please.yml).

.github/workflows/publish-mcp-registry.yml is the workflow_dispatch-only escape hatch for republishing the current main to the MCP registry (recovery / registry outage retry). It is not gated by npm-publish or any other environment.

Threat model (why this is low priority)

  • The job does not touch npm — it only publishes to the MCP

Read the thread · 2026-05-12 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Pick up @layerv/qurl idempotency-safe retries; verify create/batch tools don't duplicate

Summary

After the next qURL prod release, the API will support the `Idempotency-Key` header end-to-end on state-mutating endpoints, and `@layerv/qurl` will send it automatically (tracked at layervai/qurl-typescript#77).

This MCP server wraps that SDK, so once the SDK ships idempotency-safe retries it inherits them transparently. We just need to bump the

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · open · 0 comments

Audit tool description rendering against host UIs (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Glama)

Background

Split out from #83 item 4 so the parent tracking issue can close cleanly. PR #82 expanded every tool description to the 800–1100 char range for TDQS scoring. Some hosts truncate at the first newline or ~200 chars.

Acceptance

  • Eyeball how Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Glama render tools/list and confirm the truncated view still conveys the tool's purpose.
  • If truncation is ugly, move the deepest details (response shape sketches) into per-field .describe() calls on the inpu

Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · open · 0 comments

Smoke-test update_qurl extend_by duration syntax against staging

Background

Split out from #83 item 2 so the parent tracking issue can close cleanly. The new round-trip test in tdqs-metadata.test.ts exercises update_qurl with extend_by: "24h" against a mock client. The tool description claims update_qurl accepts extend_by, but that hasn't been verified against the live API.

Acceptance

  • Run update_qurl against staging with extend_by: "24h" (and extend_by: "7d" for variety) and confirm the API accepts the duration string syntax.
  • If o

Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · open · 0 comments

Verify list_qurls status filter accepts 'expired' (response can return it)

Background

PR #100 promoted `"expired"` to a first-class value on `qurlSchema.status` because api-spec/qurls.yaml's `Qurl.properties.status` description documents that resources past their `expires_at` are reported as `"expired"` (even though the spec's `enum:` line lists only `[active, revoked]`).

cr round-7 on PR #100 noted the asymmetry: an agent reading the schema sees that `status` can be `"expired"` on response, but `list_qurls`'s `status` filter docs (`src/tool

Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · open · 0 comments

Add operator-visible signal when qurlSchema.status .catch() coerces a drifted value

Background

PR #100 added .catch("unknown") to qurlSchema.status and accessTokenSchema.status so an unanticipated API value (e.g. "expired", "pending") doesn't hard-fail structuredContent validation between weekly api-spec drift runs.

cr round 1 on PR #100 flagged that the coercion is silent: when .catch() fires, the original API value is dropped on the floor. There is no console.warn / telemetry hook. For a sentinel whose entire purpose is "something the snapshot does not kn

Read the thread · 2026-04-29 · open · 0 comments

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