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 erickochen · MCP Server · ★ 415
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An open-source terminal SSH manager for macOS and Linux that keeps in sync with your cloud infra. Spin up a VM on AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Proxmox or 11 other cloud providers and it shows up in your host list. Destroy it and the entry dims. No more hand-editing after every Terraform run, no more grepping cloud consoles for the right IP. A fast Rust TUI with fuzzy search across hundreds of hosts, file transfer, Docker and Podman over SSH, multi-host SSH key push, short-lived HashiCorp Vault SSH certificates and an MCP server for AI agents. Keyboard-driven. Single binary. MIT licensed. Install brew, cargo, nix, AUR or from source brew install erickochen/purple/p
| Stars | 415 |
| Forks | 18 |
| Language | Rust |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 68.7063525758279/100 |
| Open Issues | 7 |
| Last Updated | 2026-08-05 |
| Created | 2026-02-19 |
| Platforms | cli, docker, mcp, rust |
| Est. Tokens | ~24081k |
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purple is Open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust. Fuzzy search hundreds of hosts, sync from 16 clouds, transfer files, manage Docker and Podman over SSH, sign short-lived Vault SSH certs. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 415 GitHub stars.
purple is primarily written in Rust. It covers topics such as cli, cloud-sync, command-line-tool.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the purple GitHub repository at github.com/erickochen/purple. The project has 415 stars and 18 forks, indicating an active community.
purple is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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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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