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  "slug": "io-github-shaangs-ventriloquist",
  "name": "io.github.ShaanGS/ventriloquist",
  "title": "Ventriloquist",
  "description": "Turn Mac apps into MCP tools via the accessibility API: no screenshots, no model per step.",
  "version": "0.3.0",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T08:36:55.239793Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-26T08:36:55.239793Z",
  "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ShaanGS/ventriloquist",
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      "registryType": "pypi",
      "identifier": "ventriloquist-mcp",
      "version": "0.3.0",
      "transport": "stdio",
      "runtimeHint": "uvx"
    }
  ],
  "remotes": [],
  "envVars": [
    {
      "name": "VENT_ALLOW_HIGH",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to 1 to run tools a pack marks as high risk without asking. Without it, they're offered only to clients that can ask you to confirm each call (MCP elicitation)."
    },
    {
      "name": "VENT_HEAL",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to 1 to let the server call a model to re-ground broken anchors. Off keeps serving model-free."
    },
    {
      "name": "VENT_HOME",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Directory for your own packs and traces. Defaults to ~/.ventriloquist."
    },
    {
      "name": "VENT_READ_ONLY",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to 1 to serve read-only tools only. Every other call is refused, even with VENT_ALLOW_HIGH."
    },
    {
      "name": "VENT_NO_VALUES",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to 1, together with VENT_HEAL=1, to keep field values out of what the healer sends to the model."
    }
  ],
  "category": "search-web",
  "subcategory": "apis",
  "company": "",
  "categoryAuto": true,
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      "id": "source-linked",
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      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "https://github.com/ShaanGS/ventriloquist"
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    {
      "id": "version-pinned",
      "label": "Version pinned",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "Every package has an explicit version"
    },
    {
      "id": "secrets-requested",
      "label": "Secrets requested",
      "result": "info",
      "detail": "Asks for no secrets"
    },
    {
      "id": "known-registry",
      "label": "Known package registry",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB"
    },
    {
      "id": "namespace",
      "label": "Namespace ownership",
      "result": "info",
      "detail": "Name verified via GitHub account ShaanGS"
    },
    {
      "id": "meta-text",
      "label": "Registry text aimed at the AI",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI"
    },
    {
      "id": "install-scripts",
      "label": "Install scripts",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "ventriloquist-mcp 0.3.0 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install"
    },
    {
      "id": "code-flags",
      "label": "Code red flags",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "Read 66 files in ventriloquist-mcp 0.3.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found"
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-text",
      "label": "Text aimed at the AI",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 66 files, including comments and the README"
    }
  ],
  "scannedAt": "2026-10-29",
  "level": "Scanned",
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      "label": "Claude Desktop (pypi)",
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  "stars": 2,
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  "pushedAt": "2026-10-28T12:33:29Z",
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      "release": "2026-10-28T12:17:39Z",
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    "at": "2026-10-31T07:35:52.424Z"
  }
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