Show HN: Give Claude a secure coding env to automate work in your apps

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Connect your AI to your apps—securely run code, automate tasks, and stay in control.

Keyboard is a universal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server allowing you to connect all your apps to your favorite AI client, like Claude. It provides a flexible and secure platform for connecting your internal applications to your AI client and executing complex tasks across various domains via direct code execution and task automation.

Below is a quick demo of Claude creating an online survey through Keyboard using the Typeform API.

See the full demo here

Ask Claude to execute a task using your connected tools
Review & approve the generated code in the desktop app
Watch it execute safely in your own GitHub Codespace

Keyboard’s MCP server enables remote code execution in a GitHub codespace tied to your GitHub account that can then execute tasks in the connected apps via their APIs. When you ask your AI Client to have Keyboard to execute a task for you, Keyboard spins up a codespace and writes a node.js script to execute that task for you. The AI Client will walk you through the steps it’s taking and you have the ability to approve any code before it gets executed in the AI Client on your behalf. Once the code is executed you then have the option accept or reject sending the response back to a MCP client like Claude to better ensure your privacy.

When should I use Keyboard?

When you want your AI Client (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to execute tasks on your behalf. Connect your tools to your own secure GitHub Codespace, ask Claude to execute something in one of them and watch Keyboard go to work. With Keyboard, you don’t need to install an MCP server for each app or service you’d like to connect to your AI Client. Instead, any app with an API key can be connected to Keyboard while giving you control to approve or deny the actions.

Connect Your Tools: One MCP, all your tools. Provide Keyboard access to third party tools in your own GitHub environment.
Private: Keyboard doesn't have access to your API keys, it only has access to the GitHub Codespace.
Secure Workflows: Run code safely within your own controlled environment with human oriented approval workflows.
Human Control: You approve what code is executed, you also approve what data is sent is back to MCP clients like Claude.

Keyboard is available to use today for free. If you want to use Keyboard see the quickstart guide to get started quickly.

Full docs can be found at https://docs.keyboard.dev/ but see below for direct links to a few docs that will help you use Keyboard after you get set up:

Run & Contribute to Keyboard

If you want to run the whole codebase and contribute to both the MCP server and the desktop client see the instructions below.

1️⃣ Clone the monorepo (with submodules)

git clone --recursive https://github.com/keyboard-dev/keyboard-local.git cd keyboard-local

2️⃣ Start Approver Client (Electron Desktop App)

cd apps/approver-client git checkout main git pull origin main npm install && npm run dev

3️⃣ Start Keyboard MCP Server

In a separate terminal:

cd apps/keyboard-mcp git checkout main git pull origin main npm install && npm run build

🔥 Important: How to Contribute

✅ DO THIS:

Make changes in apps/approver-client/ or apps/keyboard-mcp/
Create branches and commits like normal
Submit PRs to the individual repos:

Approver Client changes → https://github.com/keyboard-dev/approver-client

Keyboard MCP changes → https://github.com/keyboard-dev/keyboard-mcp

❌ DON'T DO THIS:

Don't submit PRs to this monorepo (unless changing this README)
Don't worry about "updating submodules" - handled automatically

That's It! Work like you normally would. This repo just saves you from cloning multiple repositories.

Use at your own risk. Keyboard is experimental software that executes code in your GitHub Codspace environment. While we've designed it with security in mind, you should: