Agent Artifact Engine

Self-hostable engine for publishing immutable HTML, Markdown, and safe MDX artifacts.

This repo is the OSS core. It intentionally does not include hosted SaaS concerns such as account signup, email token queues, billing, plan limits, admin portals, content scanning policy, abuse adjudication, or provider-specific production policy.

Quick Start

Start a local engine with npx:

npx -y agent-artifact-engine

Or clone and run from source:

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://127.0.0.1:3000.

Expose it through a temporary Cloudflare Tunnel:

npx -y agent-artifact-engine --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3000 & cloudflared tunnel --url http://127.0.0.1:3000

For a named tunnel/custom domain, set PUBLIC_BASE_URL and ARTIFACT_BASE_URL to that public URL before starting the engine.

The source is split by responsibility:

src/core/ config, types, validation
src/http/ Fastify app and Node entrypoint
src/render/ HTML, Markdown, and safe MDX rendering
src/storage/ file-backed store
src/view/ HTML viewer pages
src/security/ CSP and sandbox helpers
src/utils/ URL, slug, hash, taxonomy helpers
src/cloudflare/ optional Worker adapter

Publish an artifact:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:3000/v1/artifacts \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{ "title": "Hello Artifact", "format": "html", "html": "<h1>Hello from an agent</h1><p>This is an immutable artifact.</p>" }'

Core Features

• HTML, Markdown, and safe MDX publishing.
• Immutable artifact versions.
• Local file-backed metadata and blob storage.
• Public-by-default artifact publishing, with optional visibility fields for self-host extensions.
• Share tokens for restricted delivery when a host chooses to use private artifacts.
• Sandboxed viewer, rendered HTML, source, source download, and oEmbed routes.
• Core sorting/filtering by tag, category, owner, source format, search text, and sort order.
• Social card metadata on artifact viewer pages.
• Static export for read-only hosting.
• Dynamic Cloudflare Worker adapter backed by D1/R2.
• Railway/VM/container deployment basics for the Node server.
• Generic stdio MCP server for agent publishing.
• Optional shared-token auth for self-hosted write protection.

Environment

Name	Default	Notes
PORT	3000	HTTP port.
HOST	0.0.0.0	HTTP host.
PUBLIC_BASE_URL	http://127.0.0.1:<PORT>	Public viewer URL base.
ARTIFACT_BASE_URL	PUBLIC_BASE_URL	Rendered/source artifact URL base.
DATA_DIR	.data	Local metadata and blob storage.
MAX_SOURCE_BYTES	1048576	Maximum HTML, Markdown, or MDX source payload size.
PUBLISH_TOKEN	empty	Optional shared token for write/private-read routes.
ARTIFACT_ALLOW_SCRIPTS	false	If true, sandboxed artifacts may run scripts.

When PUBLISH_TOKEN is set, send either:

Authorization: Bearer <token>

or:

x-publish-token: <token>

Routes

Method	Route	Purpose
GET	/	Recent public artifacts.
GET	/health	Health check.
GET	/v1/artifacts	List public artifacts. Supports tag, category, ownerId, format, q, sort, and limit.
POST	/v1/artifacts	Create an artifact.
GET	/v1/artifacts/:id	Read artifact metadata.
POST	/v1/artifacts/:id/versions	Add an immutable version.
POST	/v1/artifacts/:id/share	Create a share token.
GET	/v1/tags	List public tag counts.
GET	/v1/categories	List public category counts.
GET	/a/:slug	Artifact viewer.
GET	/s/:token	Share-token viewer.
GET	/render/:versionId	Immutable rendered artifact HTML for every source format.
GET	/raw/:versionId	Deprecated compatibility redirect to /render/:versionId.
GET	/source/:versionId	Original source for HTML, Markdown, and MDX versions. Add ?download=1 for attachment download.
GET	/embed/:artifactId	Bare embed page.
GET	/oembed?url=...	oEmbed rich response for public artifact viewer URLs.

Static Export

DATA_DIR=.data STATIC_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:4173 npm run static:export
npm run static:serve -- --dir static-export --port 4173

Static export is read-only. New publishes require running the dynamic server and exporting again.

Cloudflare

Dynamic Worker deployment:

cp .dev.vars.example .dev.vars
npm run cf:worker:migrate
npm run cf:worker:dev
npm run cf:worker:deploy

Static Pages deployment:

STATIC_BASE_URL=https://your-project.pages.dev npm run static:export
npm run cf:pages:deploy -- --project-name your-project

See docs/cloudflare.md.

Railway

Deploy with the Railway button above. The template mounts persistent storage at /data; see docs/railway.md for storage and template notes.

MCP

Build the generic stdio MCP server:

npm run mcp:build

Configure it with any Agent Artifact Engine URL:

{
"mcpServers": {
"agent-artifact-engine": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "agent-artifact-engine-mcp"],
"env": {
"AGENT_ARTIFACT_ENGINE_URL": "https://your-engine.example.com",
"AGENT_ARTIFACT_ENGINE_TOKEN": "optional-publish-token"
}
}
}
}

See mcp/agent-artifact-engine/README.md.

Releases

Active work happens on develop; release-ready code lands on main. Official releases use semver tags such as v0.1.0. See docs/release.md.

Boundary

Core exposes primitives and optional hooks. Hosted products should implement their own identity, moderation, analytics, billing, admin, and policy layers around this engine.