Tollbooth Shortlinks MCP server
online · 93% uptimeEphemeral, human-friendly short URLs for Tollbooth MCP services
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Tollbooth Shortlinks tools (4, 2 write)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postscreate_shortlinkwrite actionFreeCreate an ephemeral short URL that expires after 24 hours.
delete_shortlinkwrite actionFreeDelete a shortlink before it expires.
resolve_shortlinkFreeLook up where a slug points without redirecting.
shortlink_statusFreeHealth check — shows the number of active shortlinks and TTL.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-31 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 1761ms20/20
- Tool poisoning4 tool descriptions checked15/15
- Auth qualityopen endpoint exposes 2 write-action tools with no auth3/15
- Maintenancelast push 3 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (1)
- highWrite-action tools reachable without authentication
auth.open-write
How Tollbooth Shortlinks compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 81/100
- higher than 62% of 48,255 servers
- Tools
- 4
- the typical server has 7
- Tools that change things
- 50%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- Uptime
- 93%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
- Response time
- 426 ms
- faster than 35% of 30,031 servers
What its tools let an agent do: 2 read · 1 create · 1 delete
Release history: 2 versions in the registry since 2026-08-26, latest 2026-10-21, typically one every 57 days.
Install Tollbooth Shortlinks in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http tollbooth-shortlinks https://tollbooth-shortlinks.fastmcp.app/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Tollbooth Shortlinks repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
Tollbooth Shortlinks
Don't Pester Your Customer™ (DPYC™) — Ephemeral, human-friendly short URLs for the Tollbooth ecosystem.
The metaphors in this project are drawn with admiration from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer (1961). Milo, Tock, the Tollbooth, Dictionopolis, and Digitopolis are creations of Mr. Juster's extraordinary imagination. We just built the payment infrastructure.
Why This Exists
OAuth Authorization URLs are long, ugly, and hostile to copy-paste:
https://api.schwab.com/v1/oauth/authorize?client_id=abc123&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2F
fastmcp.cloud%2Foauth%2Fcallback%3Fserver_id%3D...&scope=...&response_type=code&state=...Traditional link shorteners have become opinionated. They inject interstitial pages, track clicks, require accounts, gate features behind paywalls, or silently expire links on their own schedule. When an MCP server needs to hand a patron a one-time URL for an OAuth dance, none of that belongs in the path.
Tollbooth Shortlinks is a community utility with no monetization. It turns any URL into a memorable four-word phrase like brave-otter-finds-gold, stores the mapping in Neon Postgres, and expires it after 24 hours. A companion Val Town HTTP handler does the 302 redirect with zero interstitial.
How It Works
MCP Server Shortlinks MCP Val Town
| | |
|-- create_shortlink(url) ---->| |
|<-- brave-otter-finds-gold ---| |
| | |
| (patron clicks short URL) | |
| | GET /brave-otter-.. |
| |<------------------------|
| | Neon lookup |
| |-- 302 redirect -------->|
| | |
| (24h later) | |
| | link expires silently |Tools
All tools are free -- no credits, no npub, no Tollbooth ledger required.
Install
pip install -e ".[dev]"Run Locally
export NEON_SHORTLINKS_URL="postgres://user:pass@ep-xyz.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech/shortlinks"
python -c "from server import mcp; mcp.run()"Deploy to Horizon
The .fastmcp.yaml at the repo root is ready for fastmcp deploy.
DPYC Identity
Tollbooth Shortlinks is registered as an Advocate in the DPYC Social Contract. Peer MCP servers discover its URL via registry lookup:
from tollbooth import resolve_service_by_name
shortlinks_url = resolve_service_by_name("tollbooth-shortlinks")
redirect_base = resolve_service_by_name("tollbooth-shortlinks-redirect")Related Repos
The Tollbooth DPYC™ ecosystem:
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Tollbooth Shortlinks: common questions
- Is Tollbooth Shortlinks MCP server safe?
- Mostly: it is graded B (81/100). Read the Tollbooth Shortlinks safety report
- How do I install Tollbooth Shortlinks?
- It runs remotely at tollbooth-shortlinks.fastmcp.app. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Tollbooth Shortlinks need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Tollbooth Shortlinks maintained?
- The last commit was 7 days ago (2026-10-28). The latest release is v0.2.0.
- Is Tollbooth Shortlinks up?
- 93% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- How does Tollbooth Shortlinks compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 81/100 (higher than 62% of 48,255 servers); tools 4 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 50% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.