link-preview-cache-api
MCP serverDev toolsLets your agent fetch website link previews from a shared cache at lower cost.
Use link-preview-cache-api in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
Free. Sign in, add link-preview-cache-api and connect your AI. About a minute.
Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex
Then ask your AI: use the preview url tool from link-preview-cache-api
No key or account is asked for. Not verified by us yet: Ahel has not run a call through it.
Details
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No key or account is asked for. Not verified by us yet: Ahel has not run a call through it.
Add Ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
About this server
Same link preview data as link-preview-api, ~1/3 the price via a shared cache.
Install link-preview-cache-api
The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect Ahel once and every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on Ahel rather than in each client’s config.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user link-preview-cache-api 'https://link-preview-cache-api.onrender.com/mcp'Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.
Claude Desktop
https://link-preview-cache-api.onrender.com/mcpAdd a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.
Cursor
cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=link-preview-cache-api&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2xpbmstcHJldmlldy1jYWNoZS1hcGkub25yZW5kZXIuY29tL21jcCJ9Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.
ChatGPT
https://link-preview-cache-api.onrender.com/mcpIn Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.
Codex
codex mcp add link-preview-cache-api --url 'https://link-preview-cache-api.onrender.com/mcp'Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login link-preview-cache-api if the server asks for an account.
From the project's README
As published by cmondillo/tools in README.md. This repository publishes several servers, so only the opening is shown here.
A portfolio of small, single-purpose paid services sold directly to AI agents —
no human checkout flow, no dashboard login, no subscription. An agent calls the
API, gets an HTTP 402 Payment Required quote, pays a few cents in USDC, and
gets its answer. Fully automatic on both sides.
Each service lives in its own self-contained folder under projects/
and follows the same pattern:
- One narrow problem, solved well. No platforms, no suites — a single job an agent needs done.
- x402 for payment. HTTP-native, stablecoin micropayments, no merchant account or KYC required on the seller side — just a wallet address. This is the emerging standard for agent-to-API payments (backed by Coinbase, adopted by AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Cloudflare, and others as of 2026).
- Discoverable by agents, not just humans — each API declares an x402 Bazaar discovery schema so agents can find and call it without a human ever reading the docs.
- A sample automation client included with every project, showing an agent discovering, paying for, and consuming the service end-to-end.
- Where it
Shortened here. Read the whole README on GitHub.
Tools it offers (1)
What this server listed when Ahel dialed its public endpoint in Oct 2026, with no key and no account of yours. The names are the server’s own.
preview_url
Signals
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Delivery
- link-preview-cache-api MCP server → your Ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
- Item type
- mcp-server
- Key
io-github-cmondillo-link-preview-cache-api- Source
- github.com/cmondillo/tools
- Hosted endpoint
https://link-preview-cache-api.onrender.com/mcp