VaultPDF MCP 🔒

Local PDF tools for AI agents. An MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT Apps, or any MCP host work with PDFs on the user's own machine — files are never uploaded.

Part of the VaultPDF family of privacy-first tools. Built early for the fast-growing, still-uncrowded MCP / agent-app ecosystem.

Tools

Free (no license needed):

Pro (one-time license — see below):

All operations run locally via pdf-lib. Nothing leaves the machine.

Related MCP server: PDF Document MCP Server

Pro license — one-time, crypto, no subscription

The free tools work forever. To unlock the Pro tools:

1. Send 9 USDC on Base to 0xe339997037C7e1C81829fA3e110d3e82B4bDd48E

2. Open an issue with your tx hash and email.

3. A bot verifies the payment on-chain and replies with your license key (usually within minutes).

4. Set it once and restart:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "vaultpdf": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": ["github:AlexeySamosadov/vaultpdf-mcp"],
         "env": { "VAULTPDF_LICENSE": "<your-key>" }
       }
     }
   }

The key is an offline ECDSA-signed token — it's verified locally, never phoned home. No account, no tracking.

Run

# from npm (after publish):
npx vaultpdf-mcp
# or straight from GitHub, no install:
npx github:AlexeySamosadov/vaultpdf-mcp

Use in Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vaultpdf": { "command": "npx", "args": ["github:AlexeySamosadov/vaultpdf-mcp"] }
  }
}

Then ask Claude: "merge /path/a.pdf and /path/b.pdf into /path/out.pdf".

Distribution (early = low competition)

• MCP Registry + awesome-mcp-servers (PRs).

• npm as vaultpdf-mcp (so npx vaultpdf-mcp works) — needs an npm login.

• ChatGPT App via the Apps SDK (wrap this MCP server behind a hosted endpoint) — needs an OpenAI developer account.

• Claude Skills directory entry. Same capability, listed everywhere — that's how agent tools get reach in 2026.

Why

PDF manipulation is one of the most common things people ask AI agents to do, and almost no MCP server does it locally / privately. Free + open to drive adoption; funnels to the paid VaultPDF web tools and a future hosted Pro tier.

MIT licensed.