I've been building an MCP for the past few months that started from a pretty simple idea:
What if hosting and tunneling worked the same way you already interact with Claude or Codex?
Instead of opening a dashboard, copying commands, figuring out ports, creating tunnels, managing links, etc., you just tell your AI agent what you want.
For example:
"Claude, serve me this presentation so I can share it with the team."
The agent figures out what you mean, makes the presentation publicly accessible, and gives you the link.
And it isn't limited to presentations. You can serve image collages, demo videos, HTML files, full websites, local apps, or pretty much anything else your AI agent creates.
You can also manage the links entirely through the agent:
"What links do I have running?"
"Shut down the one from this morning."
"Password protect that before I send it to the client."
"Put this somewhere Sarah can open it tomorrow."
The idea is that you shouldn't have to open a hosting or tunneling dashboard just to do something your agent can already understand and execute for you.
I'm calling it serve.
A few differences from something like ngrok:
- 3 live tunnels on the free plan
- Unlimited persistent links
- Links don't expire or get recycled, so something you shared three weeks ago still works
- Pro users can claim branded subdomains
- You can create personalized URLs for different clients, for example a client-specific pricing quote
you could have something like:
https://apex-marketing.servelink.cc
And if you're sending quotes to 50 different clients, you can have a personalized URL for each one.
The part I'm most interested in, though, is the agent interaction.
Day to day, it should feel like how you already talk to your AI:
"Put this somewhere Sarah can open it tomorrow."
"What do I have running right now?"
"Make this website publicly accessible."
"Remove that link."
Claude, Codex, or another MCP-compatible agent handles the actual hosting/tunneling and link management.
You can install it by using this remote hosted mcp:
https://mcp.servelink.cc or
via CLI:
npm i -g u/servelink/serve I'm at the point where I'd really like people to try it and tell me where this idea falls apart.
Does this actually sound useful to you? or nah?
I'd especially like feedback from people who use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or other AI coding agents regularly.
Feel free to grill me.
Source: r/mcp · by /u/Imaginary-Bluejay721