Val Town

Deploy serverless TypeScript on Val Town: HTTP vals, cron, SQLite, email, OAuth.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "val-town": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "val-town"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

Agent plugins for Val Town

Installs the Val Town MCP server and Skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

Skills are markdown files with platform guidance for building on Val Town. Used by Val Town's own tools (Townie, the MCP server) and by AI coding agents. Skills include HTTP vals, crons, SQLite, email, OAuth, frontend, and API integrations.

Install

Installing the plugin makes platform skills available to your agent and registers the hosted Val Town MCP server (https://api.val.town/v3/mcp). On first use of an MCP tool, the agent runs the OAuth flow in your browser.

Claude Code
Codex
Cursor

Claude Code

Install the Val Town plugin by running:

Terminal

claude plugin install valtown@claude-plugins-official

Codex

`codex` CLI

First, run:

Code

codex plugin marketplace add val-town/plugins

Then fire up codex and run:

Code

/plugins

Search for Val Town, hit install, and it'll take you through the OAuth path.

Codex desktop app

Click "Plugins" in the sidebar
In the dropdown that says "Built by OpenAI" click "Add more +"
Copy-paste https://github.com/val-town/plugins and select "Add marketplace"

Cursor

In Cursor, run:

Code

/add-plugin valtown

Or in Cursor Settings, copy-paste https://github.com/val-town/plugins in the search box and select "Add to Cursor."

Contributing

Authoring skills

Skills live in plugin/skills/<name>/SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter:

markdown

---
name: http-endpoints
description: Use when building an HTTP val — a web endpoint, API route, webhook...
triggers: [http, endpoint, webhook, api, request, response]
---

# HTTP Endpoints

...guide body...

name (required) — must match the directory name; lowercase, hyphens, ≤64 chars.
description (required) — written as "Use when…"; this is how Claude decides to load the skill. ≤1024 chars.
triggers (optional) — keyword hints that boost searchSkills ranking; ignored by Claude Code's native loader.

Keep content audience-neutral: only platform knowledge true for every consumer. No product-flow or chat-only advice.

Then build:

Terminal

npm install
npm run build   # generate src/generated/skills.ts, then tsc
npm test        # build + smoke tests

npm run generate validates every skill against both our schema and Claude Code's frontmatter constraints — a skill that wouldn't load in Claude Code fails the build.

Relationship to the Val Town monorepo

This package is the source of truth for skill content. The Val Town app and MCP server consume it as a dependency rather than holding their own copy. See docs/SKILLS_PLUGIN.md in the main repo for the full design.

Versioning

This repository uses Changesets for publishing. See their documentation for more information.

For each change that should trigger a new version, you should run npx @changesets/cli and fill out the interactive prompts to describe the changes. This will generate a new changeset in the .changesets directory.
Each change in that directory will prompt the release.yml GitHub action to create a new release PR.
Merging a release PR will automatically publish a new version of this module.

Configuration

Claude Code

The official Claude plugin marketplace pulls from .plugins/marketplace.json.

Codex

Codex reads the native marketplace at .agents/plugins/marketplace.json (and falls back to the Claude .claude-plugin/marketplace.json for compatibility).

Cursor

Cursor reads .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json and the per-plugin plugin/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json.

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Frequently Asked Questions about Val Town

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "val-town": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Val Town"] } }

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Val Town

Deploy serverless TypeScript on Val Town: HTTP vals, cron, SQLite, email, OAuth.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "val-town": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "val-town"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

Agent plugins for Val Town

Installs the Val Town MCP server and Skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

Claude Code

Install the Val Town plugin by running:

Terminal

claude plugin install valtown@claude-plugins-official

Codex

`codex` CLI

First, run:

Code

codex plugin marketplace add val-town/plugins

Then fire up codex and run:

Code

/plugins

Search for Val Town, hit install, and it'll take you through the OAuth path.

Codex desktop app

Click "Plugins" in the sidebar
In the dropdown that says "Built by OpenAI" click "Add more +"
Copy-paste https://github.com/val-town/plugins and select "Add marketplace"

Cursor

In Cursor, run:

Code

/add-plugin valtown

Or in Cursor Settings, copy-paste https://github.com/val-town/plugins in the search box and select "Add to Cursor."

Contributing

Authoring skills

Skills live in plugin/skills/<name>/SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter:

markdown

---
name: http-endpoints
description: Use when building an HTTP val — a web endpoint, API route, webhook...
triggers: [http, endpoint, webhook, api, request, response]
---

# HTTP Endpoints

...guide body...

name (required) — must match the directory name; lowercase, hyphens, ≤64 chars.
description (required) — written as "Use when…"; this is how Claude decides to load the skill. ≤1024 chars.
triggers (optional) — keyword hints that boost searchSkills ranking; ignored by Claude Code's native loader.

Keep content audience-neutral: only platform knowledge true for every consumer. No product-flow or chat-only advice.

Then build:

Terminal

npm install
npm run build   # generate src/generated/skills.ts, then tsc
npm test        # build + smoke tests

npm run generate validates every skill against both our schema and Claude Code's frontmatter constraints — a skill that wouldn't load in Claude Code fails the build.

Relationship to the Val Town monorepo

Versioning

This repository uses Changesets for publishing. See their documentation for more information.

For each change that should trigger a new version, you should run npx @changesets/cli and fill out the interactive prompts to describe the changes. This will generate a new changeset in the .changesets directory.
Each change in that directory will prompt the release.yml GitHub action to create a new release PR.
Merging a release PR will automatically publish a new version of this module.

Configuration

Claude Code

The official Claude plugin marketplace pulls from .plugins/marketplace.json.

Codex

Codex reads the native marketplace at .agents/plugins/marketplace.json (and falls back to the Claude .claude-plugin/marketplace.json for compatibility).

Cursor

Cursor reads .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json and the per-plugin plugin/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json.

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Reviews

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Frequently Asked Questions about Val Town

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "val-town": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Val Town"] } }

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CategoryDatabases

27Quality signal: Emerging · 27/100How this signal is calculated ▾

Server availabilityNot measured

Not scored for repo-hosted servers — we can't reach the running server, only its GitHub page. Hosted MCP endpoints are health-checked live.

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Adoption & activity1/15

Community engagement0/10

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Val Town

Quick Install

Client Config & Setup

Documentation Overview

Agent plugins for Val Town

Install

Claude Code

Codex

codex CLI

Codex desktop app

Cursor

Contributing

Authoring skills

Relationship to the Val Town monorepo

Versioning

Configuration

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Related MCP Servers

Reviews

Frequently Asked Questions about Val Town

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Technical Specs & Signals

AllMCPs Server

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Val Town

Quick Install

Client Config & Setup

Documentation Overview

Agent plugins for Val Town

Install

Claude Code

Codex

codex CLI

Codex desktop app

Cursor

Contributing

Authoring skills

Relationship to the Val Town monorepo

Versioning

Configuration

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Related MCP Servers

Reviews

Frequently Asked Questions about Val Town

AllMCPs Directory Badge

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