How do I install LinkPilot?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does LinkPilot need an API key?

The publisher lists these environment variables: LINKPILOT_API_KEY.

What transport does LinkPilot use?

LinkPilot runs locally over stdio.

When was LinkPilot last checked?

Last checked 2026-10-16. Send a password or API key as a link that opens once. Encrypted client-side, so we cannot read it.

LinkPilot MCP server

Give an AI assistant a safe way to hand someone a credential.

LinkPilot secret links open once and then destroy themselves, and the text is encrypted before it leaves this process. This is an MCP server that exposes them as tools, alongside short links.

npx -y @uselinkpilot/mcp

The problem it solves

Assistants hand people credentials constantly: a generated password, an API key, a database connection string. Every ordinary way of delivering one is bad. Pasted into chat, it lives in the history. Emailed, it lives forever. Dropped in a ticket, it is indexed.

create_secret_link returns a URL that works exactly once:

Here is the database password: https://shrd.link/s/p8mcaiitig#k=0hoNIO96aDJFoLsxaYPsP3_FeqUjb6t_w5lnSTcxkO0

It opens once and then it is gone.

Read this before you install it

The plaintext passes through the assistant's context. For the model to create the secret, it has to see the secret.

This server protects the credential in transit, at rest, and over time — it is encrypted before it is sent, LinkPilot cannot read it, and it survives a single view. It does not hide the value from the model that is calling the tool, and nothing built this way could.

So: use it to deliver a credential the assistant is already handling — one it just generated, or one you have pasted in deliberately. If a secret must never be seen by the assistant at all, create it yourself at uselinkpilot.com or with the linkpilot CLI instead.

A security tool that oversells itself is worse than no tool, so that is stated up front rather than in a footnote.

What the encryption actually means

The API will not accept a plaintext secret. POST /secrets takes ciphertext and an enc_version, and rejects a payload field outright.

Encryption happens in this process, via @uselinkpilot/sdk: AES-GCM-256, with the key generated locally. The key travels in the URL's # fragment, which browsers never send to a server. LinkPilot stores a blob it holds no key for, and so cannot read it — nor can anyone who reaches its database or its edge.

The corollary is not a caveat, it is the guarantee working: there is no recovery. Lose the share URL and the secret is gone, including to us.

Setup

Create an API key at uselinkpilot.com/app/api-keys. Keys begin with lp_live_. API access is available on every plan, including Free.

Claude Code

claude mcp add linkpilot --env LINKPILOT_API_KEY=lp_live_your_key -- npx -y @uselinkpilot/mcp

Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients

In claude_desktop_config.json (or your client's equivalent):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkpilot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@uselinkpilot/mcp"],
      "env": { "LINKPILOT_API_KEY": "lp_live_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

The key is read from the environment only. It is never written to disk by this server, and never echoed — not in a log line, not in an error, not truncated.

Tools

tool	what it does
`create_secret_link`	Encrypt text locally and return a one-time URL
`create_short_link`	Shorten a URL, with click tracking
`list_links`	List short links and their click counts
`list_secrets`	Secret metadata only: status, views, expiry
`revoke_secret`	Destroy a secret link immediately
`whoami`	Plan, limits, usage and remaining rate budget

list_secrets cannot return a secret's contents. No API route can — there is no route that returns a payload or a key, which is what makes the guarantee above structural rather than a promise.

revoke_secret is annotated destructiveHint, so a well-behaved client will confirm before calling it. The three read-only tools are annotated as such, so it will not nag about those.

`create_secret_link`

argument
`secret`	The text to protect. Required.
`expires_in`	`"30m"`, `"2h"`, `"7d"`, or seconds. Optional.
`burn_after_read`	Default true.
`passphrase`	Pro plans. A second factor the recipient must type.

A passphrase is mixed into the key and sent as a SHA-256 hash, so the server can refuse to hand over the ciphertext at all. The passphrase itself is never transmitted. Send it over a different channel from the link, or it adds nothing.

Verifying the encryption

You do not have to take any of this on trust.

The wire format is specified at uselinkpilot.com/developers, and the SDK's test suite runs the same committed known-answer vectors as the LinkPilot web application and the reveal page served at the edge. Three independent implementations, one set of vectors. If any of them disagreed about a single byte, those tests would fail.

This server's own tests assert the negative directly: for every secret path, the plaintext and the key must not appear anywhere in the request, and the key taken from the returned share URL must decrypt exactly what was sent.

Development

npm ci
npm run build
npm run typecheck
npm test

Tests run a real MCP Client against a real server over an in-memory transport, with only the network stubbed, so the input schemas and the result envelope are exercised the way a real host exercises them.

Licence

MIT