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tunnel-client MCP Server

Name: openai/tunnel-client
Rating: 3.6 (1 reviews)
Author: openai

openai/tunnel-client

Score: 65.7 Rank #4937 Agent Framework

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Customer-run client for Secure MCP Tunnel: connect private or localhost MCP servers to ChatGPT, Codex, the Responses API, and AgentKit without exposing them to the public internet.

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Overview

openai/tunnel-client is a Go MCP server licensed under Apache-2.0. Customer-run client for Secure MCP Tunnel: connect private or localhost MCP servers to ChatGPT, Codex, the Responses API, and AgentKit without exposing them to the public internet. Topics: agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-workflow, chatgpt, cli, codex, golang, mcp, mcp-client, mcp-gateway, mcp-protocol, mcp-server, mcp-servers, mcp-tools, model-context-protocol, openai, responses-api, secure-mcp-gateway, secure-mcp-tunnel.

Ranked #4937 out of 24846 indexed tools.

Ecosystem

Go Apache-2.0

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Stars 15% 561

561 stars → growing community

Freshness 25% 29d ago

Last commit 29d ago → recently updated

Issue Health 25% 60%

35/58 issues closed → decent issue management

Contributors 10% 3

3 contributors → small team

Dependents 25% 2

2 dependents → few downstream users

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Forks 113

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License Apache-2.0

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Stars: 561
Forks: 113
Open Issues: 23
Closed Issues: 35
Contributors: 3
Dependents: 2
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last Commit: 29d ago

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From the README

# Secure MCP Tunnel client

`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.

Use it when:

- You have an MCP server on a laptop, VM, Kubernetes cluster, or private
  network and need an OpenAI-hosted product to reach it.
- Security will not approve a new inbound firewall rule or public endpoint for
  the MCP server.
- You want an operator-visible daemon with `/healthz`, `/readyz`, `/metrics`,
  and `/ui` before a connector or API call depends on it.

If you searched for "secure MCP tunnel", "MCP tunnel ChatGPT", "connect local
MCP server to ChatGPT", "connect local MCP server to Codex", "localhost to
ChatGPT", or "Codex local MCP", start with `tunnel-client help quickstart`,
then read the onboarding guide below.

## Start Here

- **Need the shortes

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