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Dashclaw MCP Server

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Dashclaw runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 133 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

Policy checks, approvals, records, and governed HTTP capabilities for unattended agents.

Installs per day peak 311 · avg 26 · -68% w/w
a month agotoday
133
Installs / week
npm · @dashclaw/mcp-server
304
Stars
5 open issues
17 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 23 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

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.

Deletes files or strips permissions app/blog/claude-code-beachhead/page.tsx:60
          rm -rf'd a node_modules I actually needed for a different
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.

File ships in the package but is absent from the source [пакет] bin/dashclaw-mcp.js:1
этот файл ставится пользователю, но в репозитории его нет
    "secrets": ["**/secrets/**", "**/.env", "**/.env.*", "**/*.pem", "**/id_rsa*", "**/*.key", "app/secrets/**"],
const TELEGRAM_API_BASE = 'https://api.telegram.org';

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

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 Dashclaw and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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 dashclaw -- npx -y @dashclaw/mcp-server
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dashclaw": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dashclaw/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.dashclaw]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@dashclaw/mcp-server"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dashclaw": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dashclaw/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dashclaw": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dashclaw/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: DASHCLAW_URL (Base URL of your DashClaw instance (e.g. https://your-app.vercel.app)), DASHCLAW_API_KEY (DashClaw workspace API key (oc_live_...)), DASHCLAW_AGENT_ID (Optional agent identifier used to attribute governed actions). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Dashclaw — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Dashclaw?
Dashclaw 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 npm package @dashclaw/mcp-server was installed 133 times last week.
How do I connect Dashclaw?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @dashclaw/mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Dashclaw?
The npm package @dashclaw/mcp-server was installed 133 times in the last week. Week over week that is -68%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Dashclaw open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 304 stars on GitHub and 5 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.