Derive

[Derive]

Publish, review, and own your AI artifacts.

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.

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[License: FSL-1.1-ALv2] [npm @derive-to/cli] [npm @derive-to/mcp]

[The Derive library: published artifacts with live previews]

Try it now

No account or install is needed. One request publishes a live page:

curl -F [email protected] https://derive.to/v1/drafts   # or a .zip of a whole site# → a live URL, plus a claim link that turns the draft into a#   permanent, versioned artifact in your workspace

Give your agent a durable place to publish, find, and improve work:

npx skills add derive-to/derive --skill derive        # any agent that reads skillsclaude mcp add --transport http derive https://derive.to/mcp   # or connect over MCP

Or paste this into a compatible coding agent and let it set itself up:

I'd like you to set up Derive: where the work we make gets published, reviewed, and kept.
Install the skill if I have npm: npx skills add derive-to/derive --skill deriveOtherwise, read https://derive.to/skill.md and follow it (MCP server: https://derive.to/mcp).
Then 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.

What is Derive

Derive is a workspace for work made with agents. Give an HTML page, Markdown document, LaTeX paper, 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.

The 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.

A workspace can also keep agents: named workers with standing instructions, the sources they may use, and a model account. You ask one for work, or give it a schedule, and each piece of work is a job you can follow. A job runs on its owner's own computer, or on a Derive machine where the workspace has them, and publishes its results to the same artifact library. When a job needs a person, it waits in their Inbox.

Derive is Fair Source and self-hostable. Run it as one container on your own infrastructure or use the hosted app.

Features

Also included:

• Portable work. Content, versions, and comments stay with the artifact so another person or agent can continue the work.
• Agents and jobs. Make an agent from Claude Code or Codex, ask it for work, put it on a schedule, or chain several into a workflow. Run it on your own machine with derive runner serve, or on a Derive machine. See Run agents.
• 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.

Roadmap

The current roadmap lives at derive.to/roadmap and keeps its history at the same URL.

Get started

Want a complete artifact rather than a blank starter? Open or publish one of the official examples: a designed launch page, a research brief, or a living status report. Each shows a different starting point.

From the terminal

npm i -g @derive-to/cliderive init my-doc --template slides   # templates: md · html · slidescd my-docderive publish                         # versioned URL; the id is saved to derive.json

Connect your coding agent (MCP)

[Add to Cursor]  or one line for Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http derive https://derive.to/mcp

# Derive is a remote MCP server (OAuth). Connect either client:claude mcp add --transport http --scope project derive https://derive.to/mcpcodex mcp add derive --url https://derive.to/mcp
# or run a local stdio server (set DERIVE_SERVER; DERIVE_TOKEN for a static bearer):npx -y @derive-to/mcp

The 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 packages/mcp/SKILL.md.

How it works

One 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.

apps/api          HTTP API, sandboxed artifact serving, viewerapps/web          web UI (TanStack Start, SPA mode, static bundle)packages/core     domain: ports, publish, markdown render, viewer shellpackages/db       MetaStore: sqlite (default) · postgres · d1packages/storage  BlobStore: fs (default) · s3/r2packages/cli      derive init (md/html/slides) · derive publish <file|dir> · derive runner serve --agent <id> (work an agent's jobs)packages/mcp      Local compatibility MCP: eight tools + derive://guide (the remote /mcp has seventeen)

Every artifact ships OG and Twitter meta plus an oEmbed document, serves a live Server-Sent Events stream, and renders under a strict sandbox CSP on an opaque origin. See the artifact authoring standard for authoring and embed details.

License

Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2), fair source. Run, modify, and self-host Derive freely for any purpose except offering it as a competing commercial product or service. Each release automatically converts to Apache-2.0 two years after it ships. See the plain-English licensing guide.