Open-source control center for the OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel: register local MCP servers (stdio/HTTP), run and supervise the official tunnel-client, and connect ChatGPT / Codex through a desktop app, l
A local control center that connects your local MCP servers to ChatGPT / Codex through the official Secure MCP Tunnel: register servers, bring a tunnel up, and manage it from a desktop window, a local web panel or the CLI.
MCPHelm is an early 0.1.x release (the first public version was 0.1.0) and is still iterating quickly: the CLI flags and the config format may still change in incompatible ways.
Windows users can install the packaged app straight from Releases; the package is not published to npm yet, so other platforms run from source.
The OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel lets ChatGPT / Codex reach MCP servers running on your own machine without exposing them to the public internet: the official tunnel-client opens an outbound connection from your machine, and the platform finds you by tunnel ID.
The official tool is a command-line binary. Past the first tunnel, everyday questions turn into manual work: which tunnel maps to which server, which environment variable holds the key, is the health port taken, where are the logs, is the process still alive. MCPHelm adds a control center that runs only on your machine:
- one config file that registers your local MCP servers and tunnels; - one set of commands that manages their lifecycle (start, stop, status, logs, doctor); - one local-only web panel that lays out status, health probes and logs.
It ships no license key, activation or validation logic, and it never asks you to hand your key to a third party: you create the runtime key on the OpenAI platform and keep it in your own environment variables.
From the project README.
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