# artifact-host

> One-call static-site hosting from any MCP-aware AI client. Tell your AI to deploy your HTML/CSS/JS — it signs you up, deploys to a live HTTPS URL, and emails you the keys. No CLI, no signup form.

artifact-host is a hosted MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Users install a small npm package (`artifact-host-mcp`) into their AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Cline, etc.), then ask the AI to deploy a site. The first deploy creates an account automatically. Subsequent deploys are one sentence away.

## Why it exists

Vibe coders — people who use AI to write code without being deep developers — often produce nice static sites but have nowhere frictionless to put them. GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel all require a CLI, a Git workflow, or a dashboard signup. artifact-host removes those steps: install once, then your AI handles every deploy from inside the conversation.

## Tools the AI can use

- `signup(email)` — create an account; auto-saves the API key locally
- `deploy_site(subdomain, files[])` — new site at <subdomain>.hosting.champlinenterprises.com
- `update_site(subdomain, files[])` — atomic-ish file replace
- `list_sites()` — inventory
- `delete_site(subdomain)` — full teardown
- `get_logs(subdomain, lines)` — tail access + error logs

## Install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "artifact-host": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "artifact-host-mcp"],
      "env": { "ARTIFACT_HOST_API_URL": "https://hosting-api.champlinenterprises.com" }
    }
  }
}
```

Or one-liner for Mac/Linux/WSL: `curl -fsSL https://hosting.champlinenterprises.com/install.sh | bash`

## Limits (closed beta, free)

- Static only — no PHP/SSR (security: PHP execution disabled at the server level)
- 5 MB per file, 100 MB per deploy
- 30 deploys/min/user
- Subdomain rules: 1-63 lowercase chars, alphanumeric + hyphens

## Built by

Kevin Champlin at Champlin Enterprises, LLC. Source for the MCP client at https://github.com/Kevinchamplin/artifact-host. Contact: kevin@kevinchamplin.com.

## Docs

- [Marketing site](https://hosting.champlinenterprises.com/)
- [Install JSON](https://hosting.champlinenterprises.com/install.json)
- [Install script](https://hosting.champlinenterprises.com/install.sh)
- [npm package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/artifact-host-mcp)
- [GitHub repo (MCP client)](https://github.com/Kevinchamplin/artifact-host)
- [Privacy Policy](https://hosting.champlinenterprises.com/privacy.html)
- [Terms of Service](https://hosting.champlinenterprises.com/terms.html)