backscroll runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 24 Aug 2026.
Search, retrieve, and diff the full output of past terminal commands recorded locally by backscroll.
What the code does
We read the source, 9 min ago · rules 995398eba69f
Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.
"sudo": true, "doas": true, "env": true, "command": true,
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.
if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(abs, cfg.Machine), 0o700); err != nil {
r = subprocess.run([BKS] + args, env=env, capture_output=True, text=True)
list.innerHTML = cs.map(c => {
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We found things in this code
Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch backscroll and you get told the day something new turns up.
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backscroll — questions
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