DevRelay

npx add-mcp 'https://api.devrelay.so/mcp'

DevRelay in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Ask, draft and approve from there.

Connect your AI tool to DevRelay. Ask what shipped and why a PR got no post, have it draft and edit, and approve or schedule with a yes you give each time. Or use Ask, the same tools in a chat inside DevRelay.

Claude · DevRelay connectorReadAsks before approving

What shipped this week, and why did the CSV export PR get no post?

devrelay_what_shippeddevrelay_explain_decision

Two releases went out: Send later and faster inbox search. Both have an X post and a changelog entry waiting for review.

CSV export merged on Tuesday but isn't in a release yet, so it's held. It gets drafts when it ships.

devrelay_approve_draft · asks you

Approve the X post for Send later, version 2?

YesNo

Example · Tidydesk is a made-up product

6 clients

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more

Asks every time

before approve or publish

Free plan

read tools

You work in an AI tool all day. Your content lives in another tab.

Checking what's ready, why a release got no post, or approving a draft means leaving what you're doing.

One more dashboard

The inbox only gets opened when someone remembers it, so drafts wait days for a two-minute review.

“Why didn't this get a post?”

The answer is in the opportunity's timeline, three clicks away, so the question goes to Slack instead.

AI tools that act on their own

Giving an assistant write access usually means trusting it not to publish. Here it can't without asking you.

Everything in DevRelay, from the tool you already have open.

Read, draft and edit freely. Approving and publishing wait for your yes.

devrelay_todaywhat needs you now

devrelay_what_shippedreleases and changes in a range

devrelay_explain_decisionwhy a PR got no post

devrelay_search_docsyour docs, as DevRelay sees them

01

Ask about your content where you already work

Ask what shipped, what's waiting for review, why a change was ignored or held, or what people asked on Hacker News this week. Answers come from your workspace, with links back to the page in DevRelay.

02

Draft and edit without switching tabs

Ask for drafts for a PR that merged, rewrite a post for LinkedIn, or refine the X post in your own words. Every draft still goes through the same checks: grounding against your code and docs, release status, brand and secrets.

Asked each time, never remembered Bound to the draft's version Checked again after your yes Shows in Activity with the app's name

03

Approve with a yes, every time

When a tool would approve, publish or schedule, your AI tool shows the question first: which draft, which version, which channel. Say no and nothing happens. Edit the draft in between and the question goes stale instead of approving the old version.

04

Or ask inside DevRelay

Ask is a chat page in the DevRelay app that uses the same tools, as you. Approvals show as cards with Confirm and Cancel. It has a monthly budget per workspace that an admin can change.

It reads freely, edits inside DevRelay, and asks before anything goes out.

Each tool belongs to one of three levels. A token or a connected app only gets the levels you give it, and an admin can turn approve-and-publish tools off for the whole workspace.

Read

Everything in your workspace: Today, opportunities, drafts and their checks, the calendar, the Brain, Engage threads and your docs. Reading never calls a model.

• “What shipped this week?”
• “Why did this PR get no post?”
• “What's scheduled for Thursday?”

Draft and edit

Changes that stay inside DevRelay and can be undone: edit, refine, reject and regenerate drafts, draft from a PR or an idea, add rules, ideas, sources and topics. An edit makes a new version; nothing publishes.

• “Make the X post shorter”
• “Draft posts for PR 412”
• “Add a rule: never say “blazing fast””

Approve and publish

Approve, publish, schedule, change settings and delete. Your AI tool asks you every time, with the exact draft and version. A tool that can't ask gets a link to do it in DevRelay instead.

• “Approve both drafts”
• “Schedule the LinkedIn post for 9am”
• “Turn on the weekly roundup”

Claude.ai and Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Paste the server URL, then Connect and sign in to DevRelay. Claude Desktop and Claude on your phone get it too.

https://api.devrelay.so/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors, turn on Developer mode under Advanced, then Create: paste the server URL, choose OAuth and sign in to DevRelay.

https://api.devrelay.so/mcp

Claude Code

Create a personal token in DevRelay under Settings → MCP, then run this. --scope user makes DevRelay available in every project.

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user devrelay \
  https://api.devrelay.so/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer drly_pat_…"

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or .cursor/mcp.json in one project, with a personal token.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "devrelay": {
      "url": "https://api.devrelay.so/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer drly_pat_…" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code asks for the token the first time and keeps it out of the file.

{
  "inputs": [{ "type": "promptString", "id": "devrelay-token",
    "description": "DevRelay personal token", "password": true }],
  "servers": {
    "devrelay": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.devrelay.so/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:devrelay-token}" }
    }
  }
}

An AI tool in your workspace, on a short leash.

Connecting accounts, members, billing and uploads aren't tools at all. Each token gets 120 read calls and 30 other calls a minute.

Your access, nothing more

Every call runs as you, against your live membership. Lose access to the workspace and the token stops working. Tokens are stored hashed and shown once.

Text from outside stays data

PR descriptions, threads and web pages come back in fields marked as untrusted, so your AI tool doesn't take instructions from them. Secrets are redacted.

Community posts stay manual

Replies, Reddit posts and HN submissions are never posted through a tool. You get the approved text and the link, and you post it yourself.

Questions about the MCP server.

01Which AI tools work with DevRelay?

Any MCP client that speaks Streamable HTTP. We document Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. The server URL is https://api.devrelay.so/mcp.

02Can I use it as a changelog or release notes MCP server?

Yes. Ask your AI tool what shipped and it reads the changelog entries and release announcements DevRelay drafted from each GitHub release, with the evidence behind them. It can edit them, and on the DevRelay plan approve and publish them to your hosted changelog page, with your yes each time.

03Can my AI tool publish without asking me?

No. Approving, publishing, scheduling, changing settings and deleting ask you in your AI tool every time, with the draft and version. If your tool can't ask, it gets a link to do it in DevRelay instead. An admin can also turn these tools off for the workspace.

04What can it do on the free plan?

On the free plan every read tool works: what shipped, drafts, why a change was held, your Brain and docs. Drafting, editing, approving and Ask are on the DevRelay plan.

05What's the difference between Ask and the MCP server?

They use the same tools. The MCP server puts them in your own AI tool. Ask is a chat page inside DevRelay for people who don't use one, with approvals as Confirm and Cancel cards.

06Can it reply to threads or post to Reddit for me?

No. Community replies, Reddit posts and HN submissions are always posted by a person. The tool returns the approved text and the link to the thread.

07How do I see what my AI tool did?

Settings → MCP lists your recent tool calls with their outcome, and every change it made shows in Activity with the name of the app that made it. You can revoke a token or disconnect an app there.