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

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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 · 2026-08-13 · open · 2 comments

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

The gate for the whole v2 bet:

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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:

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 · 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 · 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 · 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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