Offload

Delegate a real-world digital task to a vetted human, straight from your AI chat.

Offload's MCP server gives any MCP client (Claude, Cowork, Cursor, ChatGPT, …) three tools:

Tool	What it does	Auth
offload_get_quote	Describe a task → instant AI-scoped category, time estimate, and fair price.	None (free)
offload_post_task	Post the task to the marketplace → escrow-protected checkout link.	Optional key
offload_task_status	Check a posted task by ID.	Optional key

The wedge: you're mid-conversation, hit something you don't want to do, and instead of context-switching you just say "offload this." The AI does the automatable ~80%; a vetted human finishes the rest. Escrow-protected, and Offload never asks for your passwords.

Interactive quote card (MCP Apps). In hosts that support MCP Apps (Claude, Claude Desktop, VS Code), offload_get_quote renders an inline card with the category, time estimate, price, and the AI-vs-human split, plus a one-tap Post task button that returns the escrow checkout link. Every other host shows the same information as text, so nothing is lost.

Quick start (local / stdio)

npm install
npm run build
npm start          # runs the stdio server

Use it in Claude Desktop / Cowork

Add to your MCP config (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "offload": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "offload-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OFFLOAD_API_BASE": "https://offloads.io"
      }
    }
  }
}

offload_get_quote works with no API key. To enable posting and status, add OFFLOAD_API_KEY.

Remote / hosted (for the Connectors Directory)

Deploy to Render

One-click deploy with the included Dockerfile + render.yaml. See DEPLOY.md for the 3-minute, no-terminal walkthrough.

Or run it yourself:

npm run build
npm run start:http   # POST /mcp  (Streamable HTTP), GET /healthz

Deploy anywhere (Render, Fly, Railway, a container) to get a stable https://…/mcp URL, then submit it to the Anthropic Connectors Directory. A linked privacy policy is required — we point to https://offloads.io/trust.

Configuration

Env var	Default	Purpose
OFFLOAD_API_BASE	https://offloads.io	Offload API base URL
OFFLOAD_API_KEY	(empty)	Enables post_task / task_status
PORT	8787	Port for the HTTP server

Backend contract

The tools call these public Offload endpoints (implemented as edge functions on the Offload backend):

POST /api/public/mcp/quote        { description }                              -> Quote
POST /api/public/mcp/task         { title, description, urgency?, budget?, email? } -> CreatedTask
GET  /api/public/mcp/task/:id                                                   -> TaskStatus

See src/offloadClient.ts for the exact response shapes.

Where to list it

Same server, multiple front doors: Glama, mcp.so, Smithery, PulseMCP, and the punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers GitHub list.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

2026-06-15 (Claude, portfolio pass)

.gitignore secured BEFORE any push: added health-log.jsonl (the local monitoring log was NOT ignored - *.log does not match .jsonl) and dist-ui/ (the UI build - dist/ does not match dist-ui/). The health-monitor is now safe to stage. GATE (Deo): the actual commit + push of offload-mcp to PUBLIC GitHub is your go - verify nothing sensitive is in the diff first.