# vnsh MCP Server

Portable workspaces for AI agents: one encrypted link any agent can read and write

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `vnsh-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**18 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

### Add search, filtering and knowledge discovery across accessible documents

Parent: #49

## Problem

A knowledge system that requires users and agents to already know every URL is not discoverable.

## V1 scope

- Search non-sensitive metadata: title, tags, type, status, author and timestamps.
- Filter by space, collection, type, tag, status and recency.
- Provide recent/changed-since queries for agent synchronization.
- Add browser search plus CLI and MCP search/list operations.
- Define pagination, stable ordering and result snippets.
- For encrypted body search, begi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/53) · 2026-08-13 · open · 2 comments

### Decision gate: does more than one agent actually touch a workspace?

The gate for the whole v2 bet:

```sql
SELECT blob3 AS workspace, count(DISTINCT blob4) AS agents
FROM vnsh_events
WHERE blob1 LIKE 'workspace%'
GROUP BY workspace
```

`blob4` is the agent identity, taken from the MCP `initialize` handshake. It has
to be counted rather than `blob2` (client type): every MCP client reaches vnsh
through the same server and reports `mcp`, so counting client types would show 1
for three collaborating agents and 2 for a single agent using two surfaces —
wrong in both

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/16) · 2026-07-28 · open · 2 comments

### Artifact V1: add cross-surface create, update, review-request and handoff operations

Parent: #59

## Goal

Give browser, CLI and MCP one coherent collaboration contract instead of implementing Artifact semantics independently.

## Operations

- create Artifact;
- get/list/search;
- read current or selected version;
- update with expected version;
- attach change summary and evidence;
- request human review;
- hand off with principal, instruction and per-Artifact scope;
- inspect capabilities and status.

## Design constraints

- Use one canonical validation/URL/version package w

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/65) · 2026-08-13 · open · 1 comment

### Migrate existing permanent workspaces and artifacts into Knowledge Spaces safely

Parent: #49

## Goal

Introduce Knowledge Spaces without breaking existing permanent URLs, ownership, encryption, history or automation.

## Scope

- assign existing permanent documents to a default personal space;
- backfill safe metadata defaults;
- preserve all `/w/`, `/artifact/`, `/p/`, `#w=` and `#r=` URLs;
- define opt-in conversion from URL-key encryption to managed-space encryption;
- preserve version history, quota accounting and public/private visibility;
- update account UI, API, CLI

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/58) · 2026-08-13 · open · 1 comment

### Expose vnsh knowledge as MCP Resources and add project bootstrap

Parent: #49

## Goal

Make vnsh knowledge discoverable through standard MCP primitives, not only callable tools that require a preexisting URL.

## Scope

- Advertise MCP Resources and Resource Templates for spaces, documents and artifacts.
- Support list/read discovery with stable vnsh resource URIs.
- Keep mutating behavior in tools.
- Add a bounded project-bootstrap operation/resource that returns:
  - project overview;
  - current-state and handoff documents;
  - active decisions and runbook

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/54) · 2026-08-13 · open · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Artifact V1: make first Library Artifact creatable from official MCP

Found by zero-background onboarding dogfood. The empty Account Library says 'connect an Agent', but vnsh-mcp 1.7 only creates encrypted legacy /artifact/# links; it cannot create, discover or version the service-readable Account Artifacts shown in the Library.\n\nAcceptance:\n- MCP exposes account Artifact create/list/read/update tools.\n- Missing/expired VNSH_TOKEN errors explain the Human action.\n- list removes the pasted-URL requirement.\n- updates require explicit base version and surface c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/78) · 2026-08-13 · closed · 0 comments

### Artifact V1: make Agent onboarding, discovery and handoff work without pasted URLs

Parent: #59
Related MCP Resources: #54

## Problem

If every interaction requires a human to paste an Artifact URL plus instructions, vnsh has not become an Agent collaboration layer.

## Journey

One-time setup:

```sh
vn login
vn mcp setup
```

Afterward an authenticated Agent can:

- list/search accessible Artifacts;
- inspect needs-review and changes-requested queues;
- read current or historical versions;
- create/update drafts;
- request human review;
- receive a scoped handoff to one Arti

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/64) · 2026-08-13 · open · 0 comments

### Artifact V1: publish latest or pin an approved version

Parent: #59

## Goal

Let humans share a stable result while agents continue iterating privately.

## V1 behavior

A human can enable an unguessable public share URL and choose:

- **Latest** — follows future current versions; or
- **Pinned** — permanently resolves to a selected approved version until the owner changes it.

The public URL lives on the isolated content domain and never grants edit access.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] Only authorized humans can enable, change or revoke publicati

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/63) · 2026-08-13 · open · 0 comments

### Artifact V1: add Human review and approval gates

Parent: #59

## Goal

Keep humans meaningfully in the loop without blocking routine agent iteration.

## Workflow

- Agent/editor updates a draft and calls request review.
- Human reviewer sees a Needs review inbox.
- Human compares the proposed version and provenance.
- Human approves that exact version or requests changes with a note.
- Agents can continue creating later versions; approval remains attached to the reviewed version.

## Authority

Agent tokens may request review but cannot appro

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/62) · 2026-08-13 · open · 0 comments

### CLI cannot create or read workspaces

The `vn` shell function and the `vnsh` npm CLI can only create one-shot `/v/`
blobs. Neither can create, read or update a workspace, so the terminal — the
surface most of the existing audience arrives through — cannot reach the feature
the site now leads with.

The npm CLI is the easy half: it already uses Node's `crypto`, so HKDF and
AES-256-GCM cost nothing extra. The logic can be lifted from `mcp/src/crypto.ts`.

```
vnsh workspace new [file]      create, print both links
vnsh workspace read 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/17) · 2026-07-28 · closed · 1 comment

### Claude Code plugin, and a human-side trigger for creating workspaces

**Agents will not spontaneously create a workspace.** They are single-session:
Claude Code has no way to know another agent is open in a different window, and
nothing in its context suggests a cross-platform handoff is needed. Betting on
tool-description wording alone means waiting for an intent the model has no basis
to form.

The triggers split by reliability:

| Action | Reliability | Trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Create | **unreliable** | Must come from a human — a command, hook or keybinding |

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/15) · 2026-07-28 · closed · 1 comment

### OpenHands microagent — one markdown file bootstraps the integration

OpenHands has the shortest integration path of any agent: repo microagents live in
`.openhands/microagents/`, are markdown with YAML frontmatter, support `triggers:`
keywords, and carry an `mcp_location` field pointing at an MCP server. **A single
markdown file can bootstrap the whole integration.** (V1 renames microagents to
*skills*.)

**Done when**
- [ ] `.openhands/microagents/vnsh.md` exists with triggers and `mcp_location`
- [ ] OpenHands picks up the workspace tools without manual MCP con

[Read the thread](https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh/issues/14) · 2026-07-28 · open · 0 comments

[See all 16 reports Pod holds for vnsh](/mcp/vnsh/issues) — of 18 qualified upstream.

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