{"slug": "show-hn-derive-an-open-home-for-ai-artifacts-and-workflows", "title": "Show HN: Derive – An open home for AI artifacts and workflows", "summary": "Derive, a new open-source platform launched on Hacker News, provides a durable URL for every version, comment, revision, and decision of AI-generated artifacts, allowing teams to review work and any compatible agent to act on feedback. The platform supports hosting or self-hosting via a single container, offers a CLI, HTTP API, and MCP integration, and includes features like contexts, checkpoints, and sandboxed viewing. It is Fair Source licensed and aims to give agents a permanent place to publish, find, and improve work.", "body_md": "One durable URL for every version, comment, revision, and decision. Your team reviews the work; any compatible agent can act on the feedback. Hosted, or one self-hosted container.\n\nNo account or install is needed. One request publishes a live page:\n\n```\ncurl -F file=@page.html https://derive.to/v1/drafts   # or a .zip of a whole site\n# → a live URL, plus a claim link that turns the draft into a\n#   permanent, versioned artifact in your workspace\n```\n\nGive your agent a durable place to publish, find, and improve work:\n\n```\nnpx skills add derive-to/derive --skill derive        # any agent that reads skills\nclaude mcp add --transport http derive https://derive.to/mcp   # or connect over MCP\n```\n\nOr paste this into a compatible coding agent and let it set itself up:\n\n```\nI'd like you to set up Derive: where the work we make gets published, reviewed, and kept.\n\nInstall the skill if I have npm: npx skills add derive-to/derive --skill derive\nOtherwise, read https://derive.to/skill.md and follow it (MCP server: https://derive.to/mcp).\n\nThen pick a plan, report, or designed page we've worked on recently and publish it. If I'm not connected to Derive, use the anonymous draft flow. It needs no account and returns a live URL with a claim link. Send me both links.\n```\n\nDerive is a workspace for work made with agents. Give an HTML page, Markdown document, deck, or built site a lasting URL and version history. Publish from the browser, CLI, HTTP API, or a compatible agent over MCP. Keep the work private or share it, leave comments, edit it directly, and publish the next version at the same URL.\n\nThe content, version history, and comments stay with each artifact. A teammate or another agent can open the same URL and see what changed without reconstructing the work from a chat.\n\nA workspace can also run **contexts**: agents that answer questions from connected data and\npublish cited results to the same library. Their results use the same URLs, versions, comments,\nand access controls as other artifacts.\n\nDerive is Fair Source and self-hostable. Run it as one container on your own infrastructure or use the hosted app.\n\n|\n|\n\nHTML, Markdown, or a whole built site. Every revision is a new version at the same URL, so a link you shared last week still resolves, and still shows its history.\n\n|\n|\n\nEvery artifact lands in a library with a live preview. Pin the work you use often, find work shared with you, and organize related artifacts in collections.\n\nAlso included:\n\n**Portable context.** Content, versions, and comments stay with the artifact so another person or agent can continue the work.**Contexts.** Ask an agent questions about connected data and publish cited answers with the workspace's access controls.**Checkpoints.** Save the state of ongoing work in a page that a later session can open.**Sandboxed viewer.** Artifacts run on an opaque origin, isolated from cookies and other artifacts.**Flexible storage.** Use SQLite and local disk, or Postgres and S3/R2 at scale.**Live collaboration.** Comments, optional approvals, and presence update over Server-Sent Events.**Share previews.** Links show an artifact preview in Slack, Discord, X, and Notion.**CLI and MCP.** Publish from the terminal or connect a compatible agent.**Access controls.** Make work private, visible to the workspace, or public. Public links can also use a password.\n\nThe current roadmap lives at ** derive.to/roadmap** and keeps its\nhistory at the same URL.\n\n|\nThe fastest path. No install.\nYou get a library, in-browser publishing, version history, and comments. |\nOne container is the whole product: API, web, sign-in, publishing, comments, and the sandboxed viewer, with SQLite and blobs in one volume. Follow the\n|\n\nWant a complete artifact rather than a blank starter? Open or publish one of the\n** official examples**: a designed launch page, a research brief,\nor a living status report. Each shows a different starting point.\n\n```\nnpm i -g @derive-to/cli\nderive init my-doc --template slides   # templates: md · html · slides\ncd my-doc\nderive publish                         # versioned URL; the id is saved to derive.json\n```\n\n[\nor one line for Claude Code: ](https://cursor.com/install-mcp?name=derive&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Rlcml2ZS50by9tY3AifQ%3D%3D)`claude mcp add --transport http derive https://derive.to/mcp`\n\n```\n# Derive is a remote MCP server (OAuth). Connect either client:\nclaude mcp add --transport http --scope project derive https://derive.to/mcp\ncodex mcp add derive --url https://derive.to/mcp\n\n# or run a local stdio server (set DERIVE_SERVER; DERIVE_TOKEN for a static bearer):\nnpx -y @derive-to/mcp\n```\n\nThe agent acts at the role you grant. Publish access publishes directly, as a kept and restorable version with the workspace notified; a lower scope suggests changes in comments for a person to apply. Full setup and tool guidance is in\n[packages/mcp/SKILL.md](/derive-to/derive/blob/main/packages/mcp/SKILL.md).\n\nOne Node container is the whole product; storage is pluggable behind interfaces. The same image self-hosts on SQLite and local disk, scales on Postgres and S3/R2, or runs on Cloudflare Workers.\n\n```\napps/api          HTTP API, sandboxed artifact serving, viewer\napps/web          web UI (TanStack Start, SPA mode, static bundle)\npackages/core     domain: ports, publish, markdown render, viewer shell\npackages/db       MetaStore: sqlite (default) · postgres · d1\npackages/storage  BlobStore: fs (default) · s3/r2\npackages/cli      derive init (md/html/slides) · derive publish <file|dir> · derive runner serve (host a context)\npackages/mcp      Local compatibility MCP: eight agent tools + derive://guide\n```\n\nEvery artifact ships OG and Twitter meta plus an oEmbed document, serves a live Server-Sent\nEvents stream, and renders under a strict sandbox CSP on an opaque origin. See the\n[artifact authoring standard](https://docs.derive.to/artifacts/authoring/) for authoring and\nembed details.\n\n[Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2)](/derive-to/derive/blob/main/LICENSE), fair source. Run, modify, and self-host\nDerive freely for any purpose except offering it as a competing commercial product or service.\nEach release automatically converts to Apache-2.0 two years after it ships. 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