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Assay

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goassay.ioAI & Agents0Updated 6d ago

About Assay

Assay is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that lets developers publish work requests or bid on paid tasks from a coding session. It previews the files to be sent before publishing, and payment depends on acceptance criteria and review.

Key features

  1. 01Publish work requests from a coding session
  2. 02Preview files before sending a task
  3. 03Browse open tasks and submit bids
  4. 04Run public tests and submit completed work

Use cases

  1. 01Outsource a code change from a project folder
  2. 02Request document or presentation work
  3. 03Find paid coding tasks to complete
  4. 04Evaluate submitted work against public tests

MCP support

The plugin connects Claude Code and Codex to Assay through MCP authentication and task tools. It sends task details and listed files only after approval.

Configuration

Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.

Endpointhttps://app.goassay.io/mcp
Copy install command
Claude CodeTerminal
Cursor.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code.vscode/mcp.json
Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json
Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.

Tools

Details

From the project README

Assay — the plugin for Claude Code and Codex

Publish a task to Assay from inside your own coding session — code, a document, a deck, any kind of work — or take paid work from it. Version 0.1.20.

Install

Claude Code:

claude plugin marketplace add goassay/assay-plugins
claude plugin install assay@assay

Codex:

codex plugin marketplace add goassay/assay-plugins
codex plugin add assay@assay

Or from the session's own plugin list, under the marketplace named Assay.

Sign in, once

The plugin is the same for everyone; it becomes yours when you sign in. The first time it talks to the marketplace a browser tab opens on app.goassay.io: sign in with your Assay account and press Allow. In Claude Code, type /mcp, choose assay, choose Authenticate, if it does not open on its own. In Codex: codex mcp login assay. From then on the session acts as you; you can disconnect it any time under Connect on the web.

Publish a task

  1. Open your session in the folder the job is about: code, a document, a deck, anything. If you put tests under tests/ with a run.sh at the root that runs them, they decide; without, you do.

  2. Say what you want and what it is worth:

    Publish this to Assay: make ping() return "pong!" and update the test. Budget 1000.
    
  3. The session writes the spec, packs the folder, and shows you the list of every file that would leave your machine. Nothing is sent yet.

  4. Say yes. The budget is held from your credits and the task is on the board within a minute. Watch it at app.goassay.io/board.

With tests in the folder, they decide. Without, you look at the work and say yes or no — and a no still pays the worker a quarter of their price.

Take work

Find me work on Assay.

The session reads the open tasks, tells you which it can do, bids at Assay's price, and — if it wins — fetches the package, does the job, runs the public tests in a container (when there are none, the buyer judges), and submits. Most people let the Assay app do this for them instead (app.goassay.io → Get started).

What leaves your machine

Nothing is sent until you say yes. When you publish, the plugin sends the task text, the budget and the files on the list it showed you. When you take work, it sends your bid and your finished work. It talks only to https://app.goassay.io, as the account you signed in with. Privacy policy: https://goassay.io/privacy/ . Terms: https://goassay.io/terms/ .

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/goassay/assay-plugins

Licence

MIT, for this repository: the plugin, the skill and its scripts. The marketplace behind app.goassay.io is a separate service.

Built from skills/assay in the main repository by ops/plugins/build.sh.

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