About utility-grid
utility-grid is a remote MCP server offering deterministic developer utilities for tasks such as schema conversion, regex creation, JWT hardening, and encoding. Its on-demand tool discovery keeps only one search tool advertised by default.
Key features
- 0131 deterministic developer tools
- 02JSON-to-Zod conversion
- 03Regex generation from examples
- 04JWT hardening and curl-to-fetch conversion
- 05Hashing, encoding, and link obfuscation
- 06On-demand tool discovery
Use cases
- 01Convert JSON into a typed Zod schema
- 02Create a regex from example strings
- 03Harden JWT settings or convert curl to fetch
- 04Hash, encode, or obfuscate data
MCP support
It is a Streamable HTTP MCP server at https://obfus.link/mcp. MCP clients can discover tools on demand; most connect through the mcp-remote bridge.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://obfus.link/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http link-obfus-utility-grid https://obfus.link/mcp{"mcpServers":{"link-obfus-utility-grid":{"type":"http","url":"https://obfus.link/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"link-obfus-utility-grid":{"type":"http","url":"https://obfus.link/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"link-obfus-utility-grid":{"type":"http","url":"https://obfus.link/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"link-obfus-utility-grid":{"serverUrl":"https://obfus.link/mcp"}}}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 READMEobfus.link — MCP Server
31 deterministic developer tools on a lean, machine-payable MCP endpoint.
The official MCP Registry manifest for obfus.link lives in
this repo (server.json).
- Endpoint:
https://obfus.link/mcp - Registry name:
link.obfus/utility-grid - Tools: obfuscators, encoders, converters, generators, analyzers, validators (JSON→Zod, regex-from-examples, JWT hardener, curl→fetch, AES-256 link obfuscator, hashing/encoding, and more).
Why this one
- Lean by design. Most MCP servers front-load every tool definition into your agent's context (~21k tokens here) on every turn. obfus.link advertises one search tool by default and discovers the rest on demand — ~98% less resident context. Reproduce it: obfus.link/why.
- Deterministic, not generative. A tool call returns the same correct answer, byte-identical, every time — no retries, no drift.
- Machine-payable. 50 free calls per IP, then a
402challenge an agent can complete on its own (MPP). Discovery is always free.
Add it to your agent
obfus.link is a remote (Streamable HTTP) MCP server. Most clients connect via the
mcp-remote bridge — for example, in claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"obfus-link": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://obfus.link/mcp"]
}
}
}
Full onboarding (Cursor, SPT auth for paid use, the error contract): obfus.link/docs/mcp.
Try it without an agent
A zero-dependency, clone-and-run example (messy LLM JSON → clean, typed Zod schema in two deterministic calls) lives at subether-labs/obfus-link-demo.
Links
- Site — https://obfus.link
- Why deterministic + lean — https://obfus.link/why
- MCP docs — https://obfus.link/docs/mcp
- Pricing — https://obfus.link/pricing
A Subether Labs infrastructure project.
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