HomeButlerBLOCK
🏠 Tells you what changed on your server — only what's worth telling. Single Go binary, no database, nothing running on the machines it watches. MCP server built in.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
HomeButler
Only the changes worth mentioning. A single Go binary that remembers what your server looked like last time, and tells you — or an agent — what moved.
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f1ee068b61e4OBSERVED · 2026-10-06Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add homebutler -- npx -y [email protected]
Exposed tools (1)
1 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
portainer | read | Docker management GUI |
Trust audit
BLOCKgrade F · trust 59/100 Do not install this without reading the findings. The audit found something that could harm you or your machine.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | FAIL |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | FAIL |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- declared (13 observation(s))
- Network
- declared (5 observation(s))
- Shell
- declared (4 observation(s))
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- found
Findings (25)
defaultKey = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
filepath.Join(home, ".ssh", "id_ed25519"),
filepath.Join(home, ".ssh", "id_rsa"),
filepath.Join(home, ".ssh", "id_ecdsa"),
key: ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 # optional, tries id_ed25519 and id_rsa by default
Configured under `proxmox:` with an API token. The read credential and the one
const BASE = 'http://127.0.0.1:8791';
if origin == allowed || origin == fmt.Sprintf("http://localhost:%d", s.port) || origin == fmt.Sprintf("http://127.0.0.1:%d", s.port) {const secret = "tok_do_not_write_this_down"
const token = "tok_must_not_be_printed"
const secret = "should-never-appear-in-a-finding"
secret: "aVerySecretWebhookToken",
Password: "correct-horse-battery-staple",
.golangci.yml
.goreleaser.yaml
for _, name := range []string{"../../etc/passwd", "data", "/abs/path"} {paths := []string{"/etc", "/", "../../etc", "/var/run/docker.sock", "-v", "_leading"}readme, err := os.ReadFile("../../README.md"){"../../etc", true},traversalNames := []string{"../../etc/passwd", "../foo", "foo/../../bar"}❌ discord: request to http://127.0.0.1:1 failed: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:1: connect: connection refused
http://127.0.0.1:8901/assets/report-card.svg /tmp/card.png
http://127.0.0.1:8901/assets/social-preview.html assets/social-preview.png
@playwright/test, @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte, @testing-library/svelte, jsdom, svelte, vite, vitest
- the skill told an agent that reads were safe to call unattended, and stopped there (#218). A read changes nothing on the machine, which is what the class means and all the file said. What comes back
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
f1ee068b61e4full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/higangssh__homebutler.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 | f1ee068b61e4 | BLOCK | F | 59 | first audit |
Questions
What is the HomeButler MCP server?
🏠 Tells you what changed on your server — only what's worth telling. Single Go binary, no database, nothing running on the machines it watches. MCP server built in.
What tools does HomeButler expose?
1 in total: 1 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is HomeButler safe to connect to an agent?
No — not without reading the findings first. The audit graded it F (59/100) and found 6 critical or high issues in the source. Each one is listed on this page with the file and line it is on.
What credentials does HomeButler need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does HomeButler run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as homebutler-web at 0.0.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (f1ee068b61e4), read on 2026-10-06. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.