tunnel-client: Customer-run client for Secure MCP Tunnel: connect private or localhost MCP servers to ChatGPT, Codex

by openai · MCP Server · ★ 616

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Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 64/100

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

Stars616
Forks135
LanguageGo
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score64/100
Open Issues12
Last Updated2026-11-05
Created2025-12-10
Platformscli, codex, go, mcp
Est. Tokens~19k

About tunnel-client

Secure MCP Tunnel client is the customer-run agent behind Secure MCP Tunnel. It connects a private or localhost MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to ChatGPT, Codex, the Responses API, and AgentKit through an OpenAI-hosted MCP tunnel endpoint, while keeping the MCP server off the public internet.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with tunnel-client for enhanced workflows:

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  • hasmcp-ce — semantic(0.44)+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (55%)
  • codex-app-transfer — semantic(0.24)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (53%)

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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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