For Developers
Integrate Burn 451 into your AI workflow with our MCP server.
MCP Server
26 tools for AI agents to search and reason over your reading history.
Semantic search across bookmarks
Works with Claude, Cursor, Windsurf
Access Vault as structured data
Free tier included, no API key needed
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Paste one line into your README. Signal to contributors that your project plays nice with Burn's MCP server — and earn a passive backlink for your work.
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Brand-forward — Burn 451 on the right.
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Auto-updates via npm — always shows current version.
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OpenAPI 3.1 Spec
Machine-readable description of the public Burn 451 HTTP API — save bookmarks, fetch Vault collections, extract article content, digest YouTube videos. Use it with Postman, Insomnia, or your favorite code generator.
Indexed by APIs.guru and other public API aggregators. Endpoints documented: POST /api/save, GET /api/vault/{id}, GET /api/vault/article, POST /api/youtube-digest.
I quit my job with 2,000+ unread bookmarks and the sincere belief that I'd read them all someday.
Someday never came.
I built Burn 451 because I needed something that would stop lying to me. Every other app said "save it for later" — but later never arrives. The average person opens 3% of what they save. I was worse.
The 24-hour timer wasn't a feature I designed. It was a rule I made for myself. Turns out it works. What you're not willing to read today, you're not willing to read ever.
And what you do read? That becomes something real — a knowledge base your AI agent can actually use, not a graveyard with a search bar.
That's Burn 451. Built by one person, for the problem I couldn't solve any other way.