Surfing Dog Inbox
An inbox for the bookings, orders, quote requests and messages that people and their AI agents send
a business. Your rules answer the routine ones, and you see the rest. Open source, and you run it.
Try it in 60 seconds
Add our demo bike shop to Claude or ChatGPT as a custom connector (an MCP server):
Then ask it: "Book a bike service with Oficina Maré on Saturday morning." Watch the booking arrive,
and the shop confirm it, at https://demo.surfingdog.ai/demo/live. The demo never emails anyone who uses
it, shows no names and is wiped every night.
The same with curl, step by step: https://surfingdog.ai/try/
How ready is a business for AI agents today? The free AI agent readiness checker
reads any website the way a customer's assistant would and shows what it can do there, and what to add.
Install
We host it for you, free, at an address on your own domain:
get your agent inbox. Or run it yourself, three ways:
On your own server: Point a subdomain, such as inbox.yourbusiness.com, at an Ubuntu or Debian server, then run one command. HTTPS, a backup every night, and updates that undo themselves if they fail.
Docker, or a platform you use: the image ghcr.io/surfingdogai/inbox, for amd64 and arm64. The data
lives in the volume. deploy/ has the Compose file with HTTPS, and templates for Coolify,
Fly.io, Render, Railway and a DigitalOcean Droplet. On Render it is one button (a paid Starter
instance, as only those keep a disk):
Deploy to Render. By hand, it
answers on the server itself only, behind a proxy with TLS that drops a CF-Connecting-IP the caller sent:
Cloudflare Workers, with D1, a queue and a cron. Press
Deploy to Cloudflare.
What to have ready, and what to do after, is in the
quickstart. By hand, it's path A of
the install guide.
From source, on Node 22.16+, 24 or 26 (one process and one SQLite file):
Or give your AI the install guide and let it do the work: it is written for that, with a check
after every step. The whole guide to running it yourself, with updates and backups:
surfingdog.ai/docs/run-it-yourself.
Docs
- Quickstart: every setting, Docker, and a public demo of your own
- Connect your AI: the owner's MCP server
- API: REST and MCP; every instance also serves
/openapi.json
- Decision records: read these before changing how things work
Working on it
How to send a change, ask for an integration or report a security problem: CONTRIBUTING.md
and SECURITY.md.
apps/inbox: the server and the owner app, one codebase for Workers and Node
deploy: the self-host kit: the one-command installer, the Compose file, the inbox command, platform templates
apps/site: surfingdog.ai, with the docs. It counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics only when built with
WEB_ANALYTICS_TOKEN set, as our deploy does; any other build sends nothing anywhere
packages/core: items, their states, rules and receipts
packages/adapters: REST, MCP, sign-in, email in, webhooks and networks
packages/platform: the database, mail and job seams for each runtime
packages/spec: the discovery manifest and receipt formats, with test vectors
packages/sdk: verify webhooks; sign requests and check receipts from a customer's agent
packages/ui: design tokens and components
packages/network-check: checks a network against the network protocol
examples/network: a small network of your own, at the protocol's directory level
Licence
MIT, for everything in this repository: the server, the app, the site, the spec, the SDK, packages/network-check and examples/network. You can run it, change it and build on it; nothing you build has to be shared. See LICENSE.