Hushdrop

Hushdrop

Share what your AI builds — on your own domain.

Open-source, self-hosted artifact sharing. Drop a file, an HTML page, or a whole site and get a branded, password-protected (zero-knowledge AES-256) link on your own domain in ~1 second — from your terminal or any AI agent. The open-source alternative to Stacktree.

Live demo → · Docs · Try in browser · vs Stacktree

Quick start

The core way to use Hushdrop is from your agent — it publishes what it builds to your own domain.

Claude Code (recommended — auto-updates via the plugin marketplace):

/plugin marketplace add maxtechera/hushdrop

/plugin install hushdrop

Cursor · Codex · Copilot · Gemini · 20+ Agent Skills hosts:

npx skills add maxtechera/hushdrop-skill

No install — open [hushdrop.dev/try](https://hushdrop.dev/try), drop an HTML file, get a link. No account.

One-off from the terminal — zero install, zero setup, no account:

npx hushdrop report.html       # → https://hushdrop.dev/u/xxxx (+ password, copied) — no setup, no account

Free hosted account — persistent links on your own handle (hushdrop.dev/you/ ):

npx hushdrop login                       # passwordless: GitHub or magic link

npx hushdrop report.html # → https://hushdrop.dev/you/report-a1b2 (persistent)

Your own domain — self-host on your Vercel Blob (free, MIT, your URL + brand forever):

# one-click: the "Deploy with Vercel" button above auto-provisions a Blob store — then:

npx hushdrop-install # wire your agents + CLI hush deploy --domain share.yoursite.com # or do it from a local clone

No dashboard required. Two commands to try; one more to own.

Why this exists

Anthropic shipped artifact sharing so teams could hand each other the things they make with AI. It's great — and it's locked to their surface, their domain, their account. Stacktree does the agent-native version, but it's a closed SaaS: your content sits on their servers, custom domains and limits are paywalled, and you can't audit or self-host it.

I make things all day with agents: reports, proposals, guides, dashboards, whole little sites. I wanted to hand someone a link that's mine — my domain, my brand, my keys — in the time it takes to type one command, without uploading client work to someone else's server. So hush does exactly that: terminal-native, zero-knowledge, on your own domain, usable from any agent. MIT.

Hushdrop vs. the alternatives

Full write-ups: vs Stacktree · vs Send · vs ShareDuo

Features

• 🔒 Zero-knowledge — branding + AES-256 happen client-side; the server only stores ciphertext.
• 🌐 Your domain, your brand — colors, logo, social cards flow into the unlock gate + previews.
• 🤖 Agent-native — one CLI command or 9 MCP tools; any agent that runs a shell can publish.
• ⏱️ Auto-expire & burn-after-read — --expire 7d, --burn, server-enforced cleanup.
• 📧 Email-gate & revocable share links — restrict by domain, mint/revoke guest links.
• 📦 Anything static — HTML, Markdown (rendered), PDFs, images, multi-file zips → sites.
• 🚀 One-click self-host — Deploy to Vercel auto-provisions Blob; no DB to run.

What you can drop

CLI reference

Use it from any AI agent

npx hushdrop-install registers the `drops` MCP server into your detected agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Amp), puts hush on your PATH, and prints config for GUI clients.

claude mcp add hushdrop -- npx -y hushdrop-mcp        # Claude Code

codex mcp add hushdrop -- npx -y hushdrop-mcp # Codex

```jsonc

{ "mcpServers": { "hushdrop": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "hushdrop-mcp"] } } }

MCP tools (9 — vs Stacktree's 7)

How it works

1. Read your file and detect its type.
2. Brand (HTML) — inject favicon, OG/Twitter card, and a subtle corner badge before .
3. Encrypt (if locking) — StatiCrypt (AES-256, client-side) behind your branded unlock gate. The badge is baked in *before* encryption, so it survives.
4. Upload to Vercel Blob under a clean key.
5. Serve — yourdomain.com/ proxies the blob via middleware.js, rewriting headers so encrypted HTML decrypts + renders (not downloads) and CSP doesn't block the unlock script. Drops are noindex, nofollow, noai.
6. Report — URL (+ password) printed and copied to your clipboard.

Serving is a dumb transparent proxy; all branding + encryption happen client-side at upload. The server only ever stores ciphertext.

Self-host

The Deploy button clones the repo and auto-provisions a Blob store (it injects BLOB_READ_WRITE_TOKEN; the app derives its store from the token, so it just works). Then npx hushdrop-install + hush init --domain share.yoursite.com to point your CLI + agents at your instance. Self-host is token-only, free, unlimited — no account needed. Full walkthrough in skill/SETUP.md.

Configuration

FAQ

Is it really zero-knowledge? Yes — for locked drops, AES-256 runs in your browser before upload; the server stores only ciphertext. Managed vs. hosted vs. self-host? Managed = anonymous, 24h, no account. Hosted = free account, persistent links on hushdrop.dev/you/…. Self-host = your own domain + Blob. Does it need Vercel? Only to self-host. The managed + hosted tiers need nothing but npx. How is this different from Stacktree? Same agent-native idea, but open-source, self-hostable, your own domain free, and anonymous (no account). See the comparison. Can agents use it without MCP? Yes — it's a single CLI; any agent that runs a shell command can publish. Is it free? Yes. MIT. Self-host costs only your own (usually pennies) Vercel Blob usage.

Security

• Locked HTML is genuinely AES-256 encrypted in the browser — use long passwords; strong against casual access, not a vault.
• Raw files are protected by an unguessable slug; use --page -p for a gated download.
• Passwords are stored in ~/.hushdrop/manifest.json on your machine only — never uploaded.

See SECURITY.md to report a vulnerability.

Contributing

PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. It's a few hundred lines of readable Node + HTML, no build step.

MIT · Built by Max Techera · GitHub · Instagram · hushdrop.dev