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Etherpad in one click.

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative document editor you can run on your own machine. Launch it in Even Stacks in one click, serve it over trusted HTTPS, and let your AI agents operate it.

What is Etherpad?

Etherpad is an open-source real-time collaborative text editor that runs in the browser. Multiple users can edit the same document simultaneously, with each contributor's text highlighted in a distinct color.

CategoryTools
Default port9002
Container imageetherpad/etherpad:latest
Official siteetherpad.org

Run Etherpad in Even

Even Stacks launches Etherpad as a managed container on your own machine. No compose files, no manual setup.

  1. Open the Even Stacks panel in Even. The container engine starts on demand.
  2. Find Etherpad in the one-click services and click Launch.
  3. Even pulls the image, starts it on port 9002, and serves it over trusted HTTPS at https://etherpad.localhost.

Drive Etherpad with your AI agents

Even ships an MCP, so any agent you run inside Even (Claude Code, Codex, and more) can operate Etherpad directly, at both the UI level and the container level.

Through the Even MCP an agent can run commands inside it, drive its UI in the browser pane, and read its logs. It runs commands inside the container, reads its logs, and for web apps opens and clicks through the interface in Even's own browser pane. Ask once, for example "set up Etherpad and get it ready", and the agent handles it end to end.

How agents reach it: Open or create a pad at http://localhost:9002/p/{pad-name}. Admin interface at http://localhost:9002/admin (requires admin password set in settings.json). REST API at /api/1/ for pad management. Data is stored in the configured DB (default SQLite in /opt/etherpad-lite/var).

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