Local DevCAUTION
Let LLMs manage your local dev environments
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
Let AI handle your local development environments while you focus on building amazing things!
✨ What's This?
A local development environment manager that lets LLMs configure and manage dev environments for you. Built for AI assistants to handle environment setup, dependency management, and testing automatically.
🏃 Quick Start
- Install Claude Desktop from the MCP quickstart guide
- Add the following to your Claude Desktop config:
{
"servers": {
"local_dev": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/txbm/mcp-local-dev@main",
"mcp-local-dev"
]
}
}
}- Point Claude at any GitHub repository and ask it to set up a dev environment!
- Have it run the tests and report coverage!
- Have a discussion, poke around or clean it up if you're done!
🎯 Core Features
Test Runners
- 🧪 pytest with coverage reporting
- ⚡️ Vitest with V8 coverage
- 🃏 Jest with detailed coverage metrics
- 🔬 unittest with coverage support
Runtime Support
- 🐍 Python with UV package management
- 📦 Node.js with NPM
- ⚡️ Bun runtime and package manager
Environment Management
- 🏗️ Automatic runtime detection
- 📦 Smart package manager selection
- 🔒 Sandboxed environments
- 🧹 Automatic cleanup
- 🔄 GitHub repository support
- 📂 Local project su
7a7b222fb79eOBSERVED · 2026-10-08Connect
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 stats-example -- npx -y [email protected]
{
"mcpServers": {
"stats-example": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
]
}
}
}Exposed tools (4)
1 read · 3 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
local_dev_cleanup | read | Clean up a local development environment |
local_dev_from_filesystem | write | Create a new local development environment from a filesystem path |
local_dev_from_github | write | Create a new local development environment from a GitHub repository |
local_dev_run_tests | write | Auto-detect and run tests in a local development environment |
Trust audit
CAUTIONgrade B · trust 89/100 Install with care. The audit found things worth knowing before you trust its output.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | WARN |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | WARN |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (4)
bun.lockb
"mcp@git+https://github.com/txbm/python-sdk",
jest
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass, no_license.
7a7b222fb79efull audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/txbm__local-dev.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 7a7b222fb79e | CAUTION | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the Local Dev MCP server?
Let LLMs manage your local dev environments
What tools does Local Dev expose?
4 in total: 1 read-only, 3 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is Local Dev safe to connect to an agent?
With care. The audit graded it B (89/100) and found 4 things worth knowing before you trust this server, listed below with the exact line each was found on.
What credentials does Local Dev need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does Local Dev run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as stats-example at 0.1.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (7a7b222fb79e), read on 2026-10-08. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.