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q-ring MCP

An open-source MCP server and CLI that manages secrets by storing API keys in the OS keychain, allowing AI coding agents to retrieve and inject them securely without using .env files or cloud dependencies.

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What you can do with it

  • Store API keys in the OS keychain
  • Inject secrets into agent subprocess environments
  • Configure MCP server for Cursor or Claude Code
  • Audit agent secret access logs

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.18.0
mcp-registry: io.github.I4cTime/q-ring@0.18.0Source repositoryProject website
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@i4ctime/q-ring 0.18.0

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@i4ctime/q-ring package definition
{
  "version": "0.18.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@i4ctime/q-ring",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "QRING_BACKEND",
      "choices": [
        "keyring",
        "file"
      ],
      "default": "keyring",
      "description": "Secret storage backend. Defaults to the OS keychain; set to \"file\" for headless hosts with no Secret Service (CI, containers)."
    },
    {
      "name": "QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE",
      "description": "Passphrase for the encrypted file backend (AES-256-GCM). Required only when QRING_BACKEND=file — without it the file backend fails closed."
    },
    {
      "name": "QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH",
      "format": "filepath",
      "description": "Custom path for the encrypted file store (default: ~/.config/q-ring/file-backend.enc)."
    },
    {
      "name": "QRING_CONFIG_DIR",
      "format": "filepath",
      "description": "Directory for q-ring's registries — hooks, entanglement, approvals, canary webhooks, agent memory (default: ~/.config/q-ring)."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "q-ring-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@i4ctime/q-ring@0.18.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QRING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_QRING_BACKEND>",
        "QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE>",
        "QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH>",
        "QRING_CONFIG_DIR": "<YOUR_QRING_CONFIG_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "q-ring-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@i4ctime/q-ring@0.18.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QRING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_QRING_BACKEND>",
        "QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE>",
        "QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH>",
        "QRING_CONFIG_DIR": "<YOUR_QRING_CONFIG_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "q-ring-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@i4ctime/q-ring@0.18.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QRING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_QRING_BACKEND>",
        "QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE>",
        "QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH>",
        "QRING_CONFIG_DIR": "<YOUR_QRING_CONFIG_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "q-ring-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@i4ctime/q-ring@0.18.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QRING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_QRING_BACKEND>",
        "QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_PASSPHRASE>",
        "QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH": "<YOUR_QRING_FILE_BACKEND_PATH>",
        "QRING_CONFIG_DIR": "<YOUR_QRING_CONFIG_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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