DEV Community

Raullen Chai
Raullen Chai

Posted on

Stop pasting 5,000 lines of logs into Claude. Use a secure context tunnel instead

#ai #cli #productivity #webdev

Stop pasting 5,000 lines of logs into Claude. Use a secure context tunnel instead.

Tags: #ai #productivity #cli #security

The Problem: The "Wall of Text" Friction

We've all been there. You're debugging a nasty crash. You have a 2MB log file. You try to paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.

  • ❌ The UI freezes.
  • ❌ The text gets truncated.
  • ❌ You realize you just pasted your API keys into a cloud chat history.

The Solution: vnsh (Vanish)

I built an open-source tool called vnsh. Think of it as an ephemeral "Dropbox" designed specifically for AI agents.

How it works:

  1. You pipe data in your terminal: cat error.log | vn
  2. It encrypts it locally (AES-256-CBC).
  3. It gives you a secure link.
  4. You give that link to Claude.

Because I built a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for it, Claude can actually "see" inside the encrypted link and read the file directly.

Quick Start

If you are on Mac/Linux (Homebrew):

brew tap raullenchai/vnsh
brew install vnsh
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Or via NPM (Node.js):

npm install -g vnsh-cli
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

The "Magic" Workflow
Next time you have a git diff that is too long to explain:

git diff | vn
# Output: [https://vnsh.dev/v/abc...#k=](https://vnsh.dev/v/abc...#k=)...
Paste that URL to Claude. It stays fast, the server (me) can't read your code, and the data self-destructs in 24 hours.
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Self-Hosting
Since it deals with sensitive data, I made it host-blind (the decryption key is in the URL hash fragment, never sent to the server). But if you are paranoid (like me), you can self-host the whole stack on your own Cloudflare account.

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh

Top comments (0)