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AkiMCP

The AkiMCP page

Run AkiMCP, connect your apps, choose what an AI may use and give it a public address.

What is on the AkiMCP page?

AkiMCP is the separate tool that lets an AI read files and run the commands you approve on your computer. Its page in AIObox installs, updates, starts and stops it, an AkiMCP you started yourself included, and holds the parts of AkiMCP's own control panel as cards that fold. A closed card already says its state in one line; only Run and Ready to connect start open.

How do I connect an app?

  • Ready to connect, Any MCP app: Copy puts AkiMCP's mcpServers entry on the clipboard, for Postman, Cursor or any app that takes one. The token never reaches the page; paste the entry again after Roll token.
  • Local apps: Apply writes AkiMCP into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or AGY on this computer and leaves when it was applied, or why not, on the app's row.
  • Web AIs such as Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Notion and ClickUp connect with the Connect AkiMCP macro, which needs a public address. It says Connected only once that run proved it, and All runs counts how each provider's runs proved it.

How do I choose what an AI may use?

  • Tool providers: each group of tools on, off or always on, with Look for apps again.
  • Folders: the folders AkiMCP's tools reach, added with the system folder picker.
  • Allowed shell commands: each command with any subcommand or only those listed, and the trusted folders.
  • Rules: install or update the rules an AI reads.

Anything that lets an AI do more, loosens a guard or loses data asks first and says in plain words what changes. Turning off, removing and narrowing save at once.

How does AkiMCP get a public address?

Remote access lists the tunnels made on the Tunnels page that have a hostname, each with Use. AIObox hands AkiMCP the tunnel's credentials itself, never on the page. Use asks first: from AkiMCP's next start anyone on the internet reaches its sign-in page, and only an AI with the passphrase or the access token gets in. Without a tunnel, AkiMCP tries Tailscale Funnel; a PUBLIC_ORIGIN you set comes first.

What else is there?

  • Temporary tokens: a kickoff text for a chat with no MCP connector, with Extend, Revoke and Revoke all.
  • Recent callers, Blocked with Release and the rate limits, and Logs.
  • Postman: Launch, New window and Quit for AkiMCP's Postman control.