mcp-hub

io.github.ni-c/mcp-hub

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 3 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-27
Health score 66

About mcp-hub

mcp-hub is an MCP server published by the GitHub account ni-c. Many stdio MCP servers from one container, published over HTTPS with OAuth 2.1 for any MCP client

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @ni-c/mcp-hub at version 0.11.7.

It asks for one secret: PASSWORD_HASH. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs EXTERNAL_URL set before it starts.

Version 0.11.7 was published on 27 October 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
`CONFIG_PATH`	No	No	Path to the mcp.json listing the servers to expose, in Claude Code's mcpServers format (default mcp.json in the working directory)
`IDLE_TIMEOUT_MINUTES`	No	No	Minutes of inactivity before a server is put to sleep; 0 starts every server at launch and keeps it running (default 60)
`TOOL_CACHE_PATH`	No	No	Tool snapshots of sleeping servers (default .mcp-hub/tool-cache.json beside the config)
`LOG_FILE`	No	No	Mirror the hub's log lines into this file; stdout carries the protocol, so logging goes to stderr otherwise
`EXTERNAL_URL`	Yes	No	Public base URL exactly as clients see it, e.g. https://mcp.example.net (no path)
`PASSWORD_HASH`	Yes	Yes	bcrypt hash of the OAuth login password (htpasswd -bnBC 10 "" 'pw' \| tr -d ':\n')
`TRUSTED_PROXIES`	No	No	Comma-separated IPs/CIDRs of the reverse proxy allowed to set X-Forwarded-* headers
`CLIENT_REGISTRATION`	No	No	Which mechanisms a client may use to obtain a client_id: cimd (Client ID Metadata Documents), dcr (RFC 7591 dynamic registration), or both
`CIMD_ALLOWED_ORIGINS`	No	No	Comma-separated https origins whose client ID metadata documents are accepted, e.g. https://chatgpt.com; unset admits every https origin
`PORT`	No	No	Listen port inside the container

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/ni-c/mcp-hub
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: PASSWORD_HASH
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account ni-c
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@ni-c/mcp-hub@0.11.7 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 64 files in @ni-c/mcp-hub@0.11.7: 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 64 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 66 / 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

3 GitHub stars, 757 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-27, last release 2026-10-27, 193 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

9 closed of 9 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 107 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.ni-c/mcp-hub`
Publisher	GitHub account ni-c
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account ni-c. 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 `@ni-c/mcp-hub` 0.11.7 (stdio) oci `ghcr.io/ni-c/mcp-hub:0.11.7` no version given (streamable-http)
Version	0.11.7
Published	2026-10-27
Last updated	2026-10-27
Source repository	https://github.com/ni-c/mcp-hub
Website	https://mcp-hub.ni-c.de
Category	Cloud & infrastructure (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-hub": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/mcp-hub@0.11.7"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EXTERNAL_URL": "<your value>",
        "PASSWORD_HASH": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop · Docker image

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-hub": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "EXTERNAL_URL",
        "-e",
        "PASSWORD_HASH",
        "ghcr.io/ni-c/mcp-hub:0.11.7"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EXTERNAL_URL": "<your value>",
        "PASSWORD_HASH": "<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-ni-c-mcp-hub.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.