jotview

Name: jotview
Author: jotbins

by jotbinsversion 0.7.0i★ –iComputer or cloud

Registry nameio.github.jotbins/jotview

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Turn markdown and Mermaid diagrams into rendered jotbins.com links, and read them back.

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Our basic checksi3 of 3 passedChecked from public information; code not scanned yet
UsageiNot measured yet★ –

What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Computer or cloud
Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
Category: Other

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 3 of 3 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
Can do 2 things (tools) render_markdown, read_link
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet
npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp

Or run it on your computer

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

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

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http jotview https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp

Or run it on your computer

claude mcp add jotview -- npx -y jotview mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jotview": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or run it on your computer

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

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

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "jotview": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or run it on your computer

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "jotview": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "jotview",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 7, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

render_markdown
Turn markdown (GitHub-flavored, with ```mermaid diagrams, $math$ / $$math$$, > [!NOTE] callouts and :emoji: shortcodes) into a link that renders it as a page on jotbins.com. Returns a ready-made markdown link to show the user. Small documents live entirely in the link; larger one
read_link
Get the markdown behind a jotbins link — a jotbins.com/d link, a jotbins.com/p saved paste (public ones only) or a surl.jotbins.com short link — so you can read, quote or edit it. Links never change: to edit, change the markdown and call render_markdown for a new link. Reading a

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 7, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account jotbins, which owns the repo
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
… Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
✓ Pass
Endpoint responds
Responded in 70 ms (HTTP 200)
– Not applicable
Sign-in with OAuth
No sign-in needed
✓ Pass
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Read 2 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Otheri

More stars than 0% of the other 32686 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 75% of the other 32686 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 32686 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is jotview safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

Either way works: install it on your computer or connect to the cloud version.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.7.0) reached the registry 11 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Spec Driven Development, Remote Desktop Commander, Verbaly

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README from the maker

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jotview

Turn a markdown file into a jotbins link that renders it.

npx jotview notes.md

https://jotbins.com/d#z:U1bwSM3JyecCAA

Zero dependencies. No install, no account, no config.

How it works

The document is compressed and packed into the URL's fragment — the part after #. Fragments are never sent to a server, so for links 2000 characters or fewer nothing you write leaves your machine. Opening the link renders it entirely in the browser.

Usage

jotview <file>            mint a link from a file

jotview read markdown from stdin jotview decode print the markdown behind a /d, /p or short link jotview mcp [--raw] run as an MCP server for AI agents

--raw never shorten; always the full /d URL --short always shorten, even when small --keep make a shortened link permanent --open open the link in your browser --copy copy the link to your clipboard --json print the result as one JSON line (see below) --base-url override https://jotbins.com -h, --help -v, --version

Examples:

jotview README.md --open

cat notes.md | jotview jotview notes.md | pbcopy LINK=$(jotview notes.md --raw) jotview decode https://surl.jotbins.com/abc123 > notes.md

decode accepts jotbins.com/d links (decoded locally), surl.jotbins.com short links (fetched; like a click, that keeps an active short link alive) and public jotbins.com/p pastes (fetched from jotbins; private pastes read as not found).

Shortening, and what it costs you

A document's link grows with the document — roughly half the markdown's size in characters. A 20 KB file produces an ~8,700-character URL, which Discord, X, and most chat clients will not accept.

So links over 2000 characters are shortened via surl.jotbins.com, and jotview tells you on stderr when that happens:

note: uploaded to jotbins to shorten (8768 → 30 chars). use --raw to keep it local.

note: short link expires after 30 days unused. use --keep to keep it forever.

Shortening uploads your document. The fragment *is* the markdown, so storing the URL stores the text. Below the threshold nothing is uploaded and no network request is made at all. Use --raw to keep a long document local, accepting a URL too long to paste into most places.

Short links clean up after themselves. One nobody opens for 30 days is deleted, with a 60-day window to bring it back from its waiting page. Pass --keep to make it permanent from the start, or click Save link on the waiting page any time before then. Full /d links are never stored, so they never expire.

If the shortener is unreachable or rate-limited, jotview prints the full link and exits 0 — it never fails your pipeline over a shortening problem.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

jotview mcp is a stdio MCP server with two tools. With render_markdown an AI writes markdown — notes, a report, a Mermaid diagram — and gets back a jotbins link to hand you; with read_link it reads a jotbins link you share.

Claude Code

claude mcp add jotview -- npx -y jotview mcp

Claude Desktop — download jotview.mcpb from the latest release and double-click it. Optionally pick a docs folder it may read files from.

Cursor and other clients — add to the MCP config:

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

Then just ask: *"draw a diagram of our deploy flow and give me a jotbins link."*

`render_markdown` takes content (the markdown), plus optional title (link text instead of the first heading), keep (make a short link permanent) and shorten ("auto", "always" or "never"). It returns a ready-made markdown link, [First heading](url), and a note on whether anything was uploaded. It never reads files — the AI passes text it already has.

Rendering files. The local server can also take a path instead of content, so the AI doesn't have to paste a whole file into the tool call. It reads only .md, .markdown, .mdx and .txt files, and only inside the folder the server runs in (Claude Code starts it in your project) or a folder you allow with --allow-dir:

claude mcp add -s user jotview -- npx -y jotview mcp --allow-dir ~/notes

If the server runs in / or your home folder and no --allow-dir is given, path is switched off. The remote server never reads files.

`read_link` takes a url (a /d link, a public /p paste or a short link) and returns the markdown behind it, so you can paste a link and say *"fix the typos and give me a new link."* Links never change; an edit is a new link.

Uploads. Every character of a link costs tokens, so MCP shortens sooner than the CLI: links over 500 characters go through surl.jotbins.com, which uploads the document (short links expire after 30 days unused unless keep is set). To forbid uploads entirely, start the server with --raw:

claude mcp add jotview -- npx -y jotview mcp --raw

Works with clients on any MCP revision from 2024-11-05 through 2026-07-28.

Remote server — no install

The same tool runs at `https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in), for clients that can't run local commands.

claude.ai (web and mobile): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp.
Claude Code: claude mcp add -s user --transport http jotview https://mcp.jotbins.com/mcp

Same rules as the local server, except it can't forbid uploads: use shorten: "never" per call, or the local --raw server, to keep a document off surl.jotbins.com. Uploads are rate-limited per client; over the limit you still get the full link.

The Worker lives in worker/ and deploys with cd worker && npx wrangler deploy.

Output contract

stdout is the URL and nothing else. Notices, warnings, and errors go to stderr, so $(jotview x.md) and jotview x.md | pbcopy stay clean.

With --json, stdout is one JSON line instead, for scripts and CI:

{"url":"https://surl.jotbins.com/abc123","rawUrl":"https://jotbins.com/d#z:…","shortened":true,"permanent":false,"failure":null}

failure is the shortener's error when shortening was tried and failed (url is then the full link).

Exit codes: 0 success, 1 runtime error, 2 usage error.

Limits

Input is capped at 1 MB, matching what the /d renderer will open.

Requirements

Node 18 or newer.

Releasing

Releases run from GitHub Actions. On an up-to-date main:

npm version minor

git push --follow-tags

npm version also updates manifest.json and server.json. The v* tag then tests, publishes to npm (trusted publishing, with provenance), attaches jotview.mcpb to a GitHub release, and updates the MCP Registry entry. Move the Unreleased notes in CHANGELOG.md under the new version first (commit that before npm version). The Worker deploys separately: cd worker && npx wrangler deploy.

If a release run fails partway, fix the cause and finish it with gh workflow run release.yml -f tag=vX.Y.Z — finished steps are skipped.

License

MIT

jotview

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Or run it on your computer

Or run it on your computer

Or run it on your computer

Or run it on your computer

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Verbaly

README from the maker

jotview

https://jotbins.com/d#z:U1bwSM3JyecCAA

How it works

Usage

Shortening, and what it costs you

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Remote server — no install

Output contract

Limits

Requirements

Releasing

License