Upload any document. Get hosted Markdown filesystems your agents mount and navigate with ls, cat, and grep — no embeddings, no retrieval pipeline.
How it works
Step 01
Upload contracts, manuals, regulations, books, and other complex documents.
Step 02
Shelv maps semantic hierarchy into clean Markdown filesystems with deterministic paths.
Step 03
Mount hosted shelves into any sandbox at inference time. Your agent reads local files — Shelv manages the rest.
Features
Agents follow stable file paths and hierarchy instead of top-k retrieval guesswork.
ls, cat, grep. Keep your workflow simple without custom parsing or retrieval plumbing.
Chapters, sections, clauses, appendices — the document's own shape, not arbitrary chunks.
Get lifecycle events as processing completes and plug into production workflows.
Shelv stores, versions, and serves your shelves. No infrastructure to run — just mount and go.
OpenClaw skill, MCP server, or raw REST API. Works with any agent stack — zero vendor lock-in.
Developer experience
A few lines of curl is all it takes. Upload a document, wait for the webhook, and your agent can start reading structured files immediately.
$ curl https://api.shelv.dev/v1/shelves/shv_9k2f/files \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."
[
{ "path": "/contract/summary.md", "size": 2841 },
{ "path": "/contract/parties.md", "size": 1205 },
{ "path": "/contract/terms/payment.md", "size": 3102 },
{ "path": "/contract/terms/termination.md","size": 1847 }
]
$ curl https://api.shelv.dev/v1/shelves/shv_9k2f/files/contract/summary.md \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."
# Contract Summary
**Parties:** Acme Corp ↔ Widget Inc
**Effective Date:** 2025-01-15
**Term:** 24 months, auto-renewing
...Integrations
Mount shelves into sandboxes with adapters, connect via MCP or OpenClaw, or call the REST API directly.
Ingest documents, monitor processing, and hydrate structured files directly into OpenClaw workflows.
View docsList shelves, read files, and search content from any MCP-compatible client, including Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
View docsPricing
Start free, scale as you grow.
No credit card required
500 pages included