Bray runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 245 installs a week from npm. Last commit 1 Nov 2026.
Trust-aware Nostr for AI agents -- 235 tools covering social, DMs, zaps, trust, and identity
What the code does
We read the source, 22 h ago · rules 995398eba69f
Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.
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Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Bray and you get told the day something new turns up.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add bray -e 'NOSTR_SECRET_KEY=<NOSTR_SECRET_KEY>' -e 'NOSTR_RELAYS=<NOSTR_RELAYS>' -- npx -y nostr-bray{
"mcpServers": {
"bray": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"nostr-bray"
],
"env": {
"NOSTR_RELAYS": "<NOSTR_RELAYS>",
"NOSTR_SECRET_KEY": "<NOSTR_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.bray]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "nostr-bray"]
env = { NOSTR_SECRET_KEY = "<NOSTR_SECRET_KEY>", NOSTR_RELAYS = "<NOSTR_RELAYS>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"bray": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"nostr-bray"
],
"env": {
"NOSTR_RELAYS": "<NOSTR_RELAYS>",
"NOSTR_SECRET_KEY": "<NOSTR_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"bray": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"nostr-bray"
],
"env": {
"NOSTR_RELAYS": "<NOSTR_RELAYS>",
"NOSTR_SECRET_KEY": "<NOSTR_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own values in place of
<NOSTR_SECRET_KEY> (Nostr secret key (nsec, hex, or BIP-39 mnemonic)), <NOSTR_RELAYS> (Comma-separated list of Nostr relay WebSocket URLs).
The author’s registry entry marks them as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
NWC_URI (Nostr Wallet Connect URI for Lightning zaps).
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