vnsh

The Ephemeral Dropbox for AI

Website • Quick Start • How It Works • Self-Hosting • API

What is vnsh?

Stop pasting walls of text into Claude. Pipe your logs, diffs, and images into a secure, host-blind URL. The server sees nothing. The data vaporizes in 24 hours.

# Pipe anything to vnsh, get a secure link
git diff | vn
# https://vnsh.dev/v/aBcDeFgHiJkL#R_sI4DHZ_6jNq6yqt2ORRDe9QZ5xQB6hIRLWHVFa8v8

Handles any context your AI needs:

• 🖼️ Screenshots — UI bugs, error dialogs, terminal output
• 📜 Logs — 5000+ lines of server errors (too long for copy-paste)
• 🔄 Git Diffs — Complex PR reviews, multi-file changes
• 📦 Binaries — PDFs, CSVs, config files, database dumps
• 🔧 Debug Context — Stack traces, environment dumps, crash reports

Philosophy

"Built for the ephemeral nature of AI workflows. Once your session is done, the data should be too."

Unlike Dropbox or pastebins, vnsh implements a Host-Blind Architecture with automatic vaporization:

Quick Start

Option 1: Web Upload

Visit vnsh.dev, drag & drop a file, or paste text. Get an encrypted link instantly.

Option 2: CLI Installation

Zero-install (just run it):

echo "hello" | npx vnsh

NPM (global install):

npm install -g vnsh

Shell script (cross-platform: macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash):

curl -sL https://vnsh.dev/i | sh

CLI Usage

# Upload a file
vn secrets.env

# Pipe from stdin
cat crash.log | vn
docker logs app | vn
git diff HEAD~5 | vn

# Read/decrypt a URL
vn read "https://vnsh.dev/v/aBcDeFgHiJkL#R_sI4DHZ..."

# Custom expiry (1-168 hours)
vn --ttl 1 temp-file.txt   # expires in 1 hour

# Show version and help
vn --version
vn --help

Option 3: Claude Code (MCP Integration)

Native to Claude Code. Unlike Dropbox, vnsh has a first-party MCP server. Claude can "see" inside your encrypted links without leaving the terminal.

Create .mcp.json in your project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vnsh": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "vnsh-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code after adding the config. Now Claude can:

• Read vnsh links automatically when you paste them
• Share large text outputs via `vnsh_

... View full README on GitHub