OctoBus — security grade SAFE, quality 68/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 68/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

by chaitin · MCP Server · ★ 201

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About OctoBus

中文版 README OctoBus is a locally running single-binary gateway for managing pluggable Node.js service packages and exposing the gRPC capabilities in those packages to clients or agents by capset. The current implementation provides a Go-built binary that is responsible for: daemon: start the local control plane and public data plane, and manage Node.js subprocesses according to each service runtime mode CLI: manage services, instances, and capsets through the local admin API gateway: expose selected methods as gRPC, and expose unary methods as Connect RPC and MCP streamable HTTP storage: use SQLite to record services, instances, capsets, method bindings, descriptors, and runtime state runtime management: import service packages, prepare runtime dirs, and manage long-running or on-demand Node.js instances Project Overview OctoBus is built around the following core model: service: a service root

access-controlagent-toolsai-agentsapi-gatewayauthorizationconnect-rpcdeveloper-toolsenterprise-integrationenterprise-integrationsgrpc

Quick Facts

Stars201
Forks91
LanguageJavaScript
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseGPL-3.0
Quality Score67.6662574238369/100
Open Issues259
Last Updated2026-09-23
Created2025-12-12
Platformsmcp, node
Est. Tokens~19k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with OctoBus for enhanced workflows:

  • Daisy-workflow — semantic(0.19)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (57%)
  • Daisy-workflow — semantic(0.19)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (57%)
  • daisy-engine — semantic(0.17)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (56%)
  • ToolJet — semantic(0.21)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (52%)

OctoBus alternative? Top 6 similar tools

Looking for a OctoBus alternative? If you're comparing OctoBus with other mcp server tools, these 6 projects are the closest alternatives on Agent Skills Hub — ranked by topic overlap, star count, and community traction.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is OctoBus?

OctoBus is A secure local gateway for AI agents to reliably call approved enterprise APIs, tools, and services.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 201 GitHub stars.

What programming language is OctoBus written in?

OctoBus is primarily written in JavaScript. It covers topics such as access-control, agent-tools, ai-agents.

How do I install or use OctoBus?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the OctoBus GitHub repository at github.com/chaitin/OctoBus. The project has 201 stars and 91 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does OctoBus use?

OctoBus is released under the GPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to OctoBus?

The top alternatives to OctoBus on Agent Skills Hub include uxc, kontext-cli, reshapr. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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