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TAR Engine MCP Server

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TAR Engine runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 55 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 7 Nov 2026.

Audit AI skill safety before you ship. Static, semantic, adversarial, supply chain scans.

Installs per day peak 26 · avg 10 · -2% w/w
a month agotoday
55
Installs / week
pypi · tar-engine
2
Stars
8 open issues
7 Nov 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
Apache-2.0
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 15 h ago · rules 995398eba69f

A tool parameter reaches a dangerous call

A value the model can set ends up inside a file or shell call. That is not a flaw by itself — for a terminal server it is the job — but it is where things go wrong when it is not.

A tool parameter reaches a dangerous call read_file.path → backend/cockpit/skill_executor.py:308
            r = subprocess.run(
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

        out = subprocess.check_output(
Sends data to a third-party sink backend/cockpit/telegram_bot.py:55
API_BASE = "https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}"

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A tool parameter here reaches a dangerous call

That is not a flaw by itself — but it is where things go wrong when it is not the job. We re-read this code on every release. Watch it and you hear from us the day another one appears.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tar-engine -- uvx tar-engine
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tar-engine": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tar-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tar-engine]
command = "uvx"
args = ["tar-engine"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tar-engine": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tar-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "tar-engine": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tar-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: TAR_ENGINE_URL (Override the audit backend. Default is the hosted playground at https://tarai.dev. Set to http://localhost:8765 (or your own tar-engine deployment) to self-host and keep SKILL.md content on your machine), TAR_ENGINE_BYOK_OPENAI_KEY (OpenAI API key that unlocks the semantic LLM and adversarial prompt-fuzz layers. Static and supply-chain layers run without it), TAR_ENGINE_BYOK_ANTHROPIC_KEY (Anthropic API key alternative to the OpenAI key for the semantic and adversarial layers).

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TAR Engine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for TAR Engine?
TAR Engine runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package tar-engine was installed 55 times last week.
How do I connect TAR Engine?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls tar-engine straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use TAR Engine?
The pypi package tar-engine was installed 55 times in the last week. Week over week that is -2%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is TAR Engine open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python, 2 stars on GitHub and 8 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.