Pinggy Tunnel Skill

Expose a local service (dev server, webhook receiver, MCP endpoint, demo) to the public internet using a Pinggy SSH reverse tunnel. No daemon to install — the user's stock SSH client connects to a.pinggy.io:443 and Pinggy hands back a public HTTP/HTTPS URL.

Free tier: 60-minute tunnels, random subdomain, no signup. Pro tier ($3/mo) is an opt-in with a token.

When to Use

• User asks to "expose this locally", "share my dev server", "make this URL public", "tunnel port N", "get a public URL for a webhook"
• Need to receive a webhook callback during a local task (Stripe, GitHub, Discord, AgentMail)
• Sharing a one-off HTTP demo (MCP server, Ollama/vLLM endpoint, dashboard) with a remote party
• The host has SSH but no cloudflared / ngrok binary, and installing one would be overkill

If the host already has cloudflared configured, prefer the cloudflared-quick-tunnel skill — Cloudflare quick tunnels don't expire after 60 minutes.

Prerequisites

• ssh on PATH (ssh -V). Default on Linux, macOS, and Windows 10+. No other install.
• A local service listening on 127.0.0.1:<port> before the tunnel starts. Pinggy will return URLs but they'll 502 until the local origin is up.