Quiver

Quiver is an open-source, self-hosted, AI-powered marketing command center for product teams. Every session starts with your actual positioning, ICP, messaging, and past results, so outputs improve as your team logs more work.

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Feature Overview

Quiver includes:

• Marketing context system with version history and proposal review workflow
• Five AI session modes (Strategy, Create, Feedback, Analyze, Optimize) with skill loading
• Artifact library with versioning, status workflow, and campaign linking
• Campaign workspace tying sessions, artifacts, content, research, and performance together
• Performance log with close-the-loop queue and context update proposals
• Content layer with markdown body, SEO/OG metadata, distribution tracking, and metric snapshots
• Customer research layer with async AI processing, quote extraction, and VoC quote library
• MCP server access over stdio (mcp/) and HTTP (/api/mcp) for external AI clients
• Public Content API for website pulls from Quiver as source of truth
• Light/dark mode with persisted user preference

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Self-Hosting (30 minutes)

1. Fork this repo
2. Create a Supabase project
3. Get an Anthropic API key
4. Deploy to Vercel with the button above
5. Run Prisma migration against your database:

   npx prisma migrate deploy

6. Visit your deployment URL and complete onboarding

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Environment Variables

Copy .env.example to .env.local and fill in values:

Variable	Required	Notes
DATABASE_URL	Yes	Postgres connection string (pooled)
DIRECT_URL	Yes	Direct DB connection for Prisma migrations
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL	Yes	Supabase project URL
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY	Yes	Supabase anon/public key
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY	Yes	Server-only Supabase service role key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Yes	Anthropic API key
NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL	Yes	App URL (https://... or http://localhost:3000)
QUIVER_SHARE_SECRET	Yes	Secret for session share links (openssl rand -base64 32)
MCP_AUTH_SECRET	No	Optional Bearer auth for /api/mcp
TABSTACK_API_KEY	No	Reserved for Issue #50 content import (not implemented in this checkout)

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Content API

Published content is available from Quiver via a public, unauthenticated API:

GET /api/public/content/[slug]   # single published piece with markdown body + SEO/OG
GET /api/public/content          # paginated list of published pieces

Query params for list endpoint:

• contentType (optional)
• limit (default 20, max 50)
• offset (default 0)

Both endpoints are rate-limited to 60 requests/minute per IP (in-memory limiter per app instance).

Use this API at build time or runtime in your website. Quiver stays the source of truth.

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MCP Server

Quiver ships with an MCP server that exposes the full product surface as tools for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible clients.

Why this matters

A better-informed Claude instance (project memory + connected services + Quiver MCP tools) can log performance, save research, update context, and manage content directly, while Quiver remains the storage and tracking system.

Build (stdio server)

cd mcp
npm install
npx prisma generate
npm run build

Claude Desktop config (stdio)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quiver": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/quiver/mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "your-supabase-connection-string"
      }
    }
  }
}

Note: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is optional for the stdio server. The only tool that uses it is log_performance — it runs AI synthesis after logging results to propose context updates. Without the key, log_performance still works but skips synthesis.

Cursor config (stdio)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quiver": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/quiver/mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "your-supabase-connection-string"
      }
    }
  }
}

Remote HTTP connector (/api/mcp)

Quiver also includes a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint in the Next.js app:

https://<your-domain>/api/mcp

• Set MCP_AUTH_SECRET to require Authorization: Bearer <secret>
• Without MCP_AUTH_SECRET, endpoint allows requests (safe only for private/internal deployments)

Tool domains

Context:

• get_context, get_context_history, propose_context_update, apply_context_update, restore_context_version

Campaigns:

• list_campaigns, get_campaign, create_campaign, update_campaign, update_campaign_status

Artifacts:

• list_artifacts, get_artifact, save_artifact, update_artifact, update_artifact_status

Performance:

• log_performance, get_performance_log, get_close_the_loop_queue, list_proposals, action_proposal

Content:

• list_content, get_content, save_content, update_content, add_distribution, log_content_metrics, get_content_metrics, get_content_calendar

Research:

• list_research_entries, get_research_entry, save_research_entry, list_quotes, get_linear_payload

Sessions:

• list_sessions, get_session

Workspace:

• get_dashboard_summary

propose_context_update vs apply_context_update

• propose_context_update: creates a pending proposal for human review
• apply_context_update: applies changes immediately and creates a new context version

Use apply_context_update only when the user explicitly asks for immediate change.

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Skills System

Quiver loads static markdown skills from /skills (pinned from coreyhaines31/marketingskills).

• Skills are loaded at session start from disk
• Feedback mode uses customer-research
• Create mode skill selection depends on artifact type
• Admins can update to newer pinned skill versions from Settings

See lib/ai/skills.ts for exact mapping.

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System Prompt Assembly

Each session prompt is assembled from:

1. Role definition
2. Active product context
3. Loaded skill content
4. Performance history (create mode)
5. Featured customer quotes (create + strategy)
6. Published content context (create + strategy)
7. Mode instructions
8. Output instructions

See lib/ai/session.ts.

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Tech Stack

Layer	Choice
Framework	Next.js 14, App Router
Language	TypeScript (strict mode)
Styling	Tailwind CSS
Components	shadcn/ui + Radix UI
Database	Supabase (Postgres)
ORM	Prisma
Auth	Supabase Auth
AI	Anthropic SDK
Testing	Vitest
Deployment	Vercel

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for local setup, branch naming, and PR checklist.

Good first contributions:

1. Rich text editing experience for Content body
2. Additional MCP tool domains
3. New session modes and mode-specific UX
4. Expanded artifact-type to skill routing
5. Content import implementation for Issue #50 (TABSTACK_API_KEY, import endpoint, UI)

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Documentation

• Product specification: SPEC.md
• Agent instructions: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md
• Build prompt context: PROMPT.md

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License

MIT

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Built with the marketingskills framework.