purple: Open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust

by erickochen · MCP Server · ★ 725

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How to install purple

brew install erickochen/purple/purple
cargo install purple-ssh

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 69/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars725
Forks36
LanguageRust
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score69/100
Open Issues5
Last Updated2026-10-16
Created2026-02-19
Platformscli, docker, mcp, rust
Est. Tokens~24081k

About purple

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.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with purple for enhanced workflows:

  • clsh — semantic(0.29)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (54%)
  • tat-agent — semantic(0.17)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (51%)
  • mcp-ssh-manager — semantic(0.55)+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (48%)
  • ssh-find-agent — semantic(0.33)+complementary+similar_pop+shared_platform (46%)
  • agent-pack-n-go — semantic(0.17)+complementary+similar_pop+shared_platform (46%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. 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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