Claude KVM

io.github.ARAS-Workspace/claude-kvm

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 19 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-07-06
Health score 49

About Claude KVM

Claude KVM is an MCP server published by the GitHub account ARAS-Workspace. MCP server — control remote desktops via VNC with a native Swift daemon and Apple Vision OCR

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package claude-kvm at version 2.0.12.

It asks for 2 secrets: VNC_USERNAME and VNC_PASSWORD. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs VNC_HOST, VNC_PORT and CLAUDE_KVM_DAEMON_PATH set before it starts.

Version 2.0.12 was published on 6 July 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`VNC_HOST`	Yes	No	VNC server hostname or IP
`VNC_PORT`	Yes	No	VNC server port
`VNC_USERNAME`	No	Yes	VNC/ARD username
`VNC_PASSWORD`	No	Yes	VNC/ARD password
`CLAUDE_KVM_DAEMON_PATH`	Yes	No	Path to claude-kvm-daemon binary

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/ARAS-Workspace/claude-kvm
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: VNC_USERNAME, VNC_PASSWORD
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account ARAS-Workspace
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	claude-kvm@2.0.12 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 4 files in claude-kvm@2.0.12: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 4 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 49 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity14 / 40

19 GitHub stars, 98 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity8 / 25

Last push 2026-07-06, last release 2026-07-06, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

2 closed of 2 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

8 forks, 7 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.ARAS-Workspace/claude-kvm`
Publisher	GitHub account ARAS-Workspace
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account ARAS-Workspace. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `claude-kvm` 2.0.12 (stdio)
Version	2.0.12
Published	2026-07-06
Last updated	2026-07-06
Source repository	https://github.com/ARAS-Workspace/claude-kvm
Website	https://github.com/ARAS-Workspace/claude-kvm
Category	AI & media generation (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-kvm": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-kvm@2.0.12"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VNC_HOST": "<your value>",
        "VNC_PORT": "<your value>",
        "CLAUDE_KVM_DAEMON_PATH": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-aras-workspace-claude-kvm.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.