Anchorify + MCP

Anchorify ships a built-in Model Context Protocol server. Point any MCP client at it and the agent gets first-class tools to publish a document to a stable URL, list and update shares, manage access, and read comments, versions, and suggestions — no shelling out to the CLI.

It's the same anchorify npm package: the server is the anchorify mcp subcommand, not a separate install.

Install

npm i -g anchorify

Get a per-user token at https://anchorify.io/dashboard/settings (it's the same token anchorify login uses).

Configure your MCP client

Add one stanza. The server authenticates with ANCHORIFY_TOKEN from its environment — put your token there.

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json), or any client that speaks stdio MCP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anchorify": {
      "command": "anchorify",
      "args": ["mcp"],
      "env": {
        "ANCHORIFY_TOKEN": "your-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

To target a self-hosted or dev instance, add "ANCHORIFY_HOST": "http://localhost:3737" to env (defaults to https://anchorify.io).

Restart the client; "anchorify" appears in its tool list.

Tools

Flat tools mirroring the CLI verbs. All take a share argument (a slug, id, or full URL) where they act on an existing share.

Tool	What it does
`anchorify_publish`	Publish new content → returns the share URL
`anchorify_update`	Replace an existing share's content (snapshots a version)
`anchorify_list`	List your shares
`anchorify_view`	Fetch a share's raw source
`anchorify_delete`	Delete a share
`anchorify_set_access`	Set link access (restricted/view/comment/suggest) + indexing
`anchorify_set_password`	Set or clear a view password
`anchorify_rename`	Rename a share's slug (old URL 301s)
`anchorify_move`	Move a share into another project
`anchorify_comments_list`	List comments (with anchors + reactions)
`anchorify_comment_add`	Add a comment (document-level or anchored)
`anchorify_versions_list`	List version history
`anchorify_version_restore`	Restore a share to an older version
`anchorify_suggestions_list`	List a share's pending suggestions, or your own

Example prompts

"Publish this proposal to Anchorify and give me the link."
"List my Anchorify shares and update q3-report with this new draft."
"Make client-onboarding view-only and not indexed."
"Show me the comments on the pricing-memo share."

Notes

Auth: the server only does what your token can do — your own org's shares. Public reads (anchorify_view on a public share) work without a token; everything else needs ANCHORIFY_TOKEN.
Transport: stdio only today. A hosted/remote (SSE + OAuth) server is a future addition.
No extra endpoints: the MCP server is a pure client of the same HTTP API the CLI uses, so behavior matches anchorify <verb> exactly.