by btsouth
Local-first MCP gateway. Set up MCP servers once and use them in every AI client, with secrets in the OS keychain, tool integrity checks and quarantine, and on-demand tool search for clients that load every tool.
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/btsouth/toolportLast scanned: 9/4/2026
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toolport is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by btsouth. Local-first MCP gateway. Set up MCP servers once and use them in every AI client, with secrets in the OS keychain, tool integrity checks and quarantine, and on-demand tool search for clients that load every tool. It has 233 GitHub stars.
Yes. toolport passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/btsouth/toolport" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
toolport is primarily written in Rust. It is open-source under btsouth on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh toolport against similar tools.
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Set up your MCP servers once. Use them in every AI client.
Toolport is a local gateway for MCP, the protocol that gives AI apps access to tools like GitHub, Slack, and databases. Connect your servers once, then share them across Claude, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and other clients.
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Installers and release notes are also on GitHub Releases. On Arch and Omarchy, the pacman repository keeps Toolport on your normal update path. It stays on 1.24.2 until the staged 2.x rollout finishes; use the AppImage for 2.x until then.
Working with a team? Toolport Teams shares server configuration and policies while each member keeps their own credentials.
Requires Node.js and stable Rust, plus the platform dependencies described in Contributing.
npm ci
npm run build:gateway
npm run tauri dev
See Contributing for testing and build instructions.
Share server configuration and policies across a team while each member keeps their own credentials. Hosted and self-hosted options.
The desktop app and gateway are MIT licensed.