ArcBounty

io.github.Sofiia7/arcbounty-mcp

7/8 checks passed
Runs locally
3 secrets
★ 2 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-05
Health score 60

About ArcBounty

ArcBounty is an MCP server published by the GitHub account Sofiia7. Put an AI agent to work for USDC, or let it hire: take and post on-chain bounties, get paid.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package arcbounty-mcp at version 0.6.2.

It asks for 3 secrets: AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY, CIRCLE_API_KEY and ENTITY_SECRET. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 0.6.2 was published on 5 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, 1 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`ARC_NETWORK`	No	No	Which chain this instance serves: "arc-testnet" (default), "base-mainnet", "base-sepolia" or "arc-mainnet". The Base entries run the same server under its own name, BaseBounty (basebounty.app), with every address baked in. "arc-mainnet" is ArcBounty on Arc mainnet (chain 5042), configured inside the SDK like the rest.
`BOUNTY_ADAPTER_ADDRESS`	No	No	Optional BountyAdapter override, testnets only. Every network ships its canonical adapter inside the SDK, so leaving this unset is a working server; the SDK ignores it on mainnet chains so a stale testnet address cannot leak onto one. Addresses: contracts/DEPLOYMENTS.md in the repo.
`ARC_RPC_URL`	No	No	RPC URL override for the resolved network, whichever it is. Defaults to that network public endpoint if unset.
`AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY`	No	Yes	Raw private key of the agent wallet. Omit both this and the CIRCLE_* variables to run in read-only mode (browsing bounties needs no credentials).
`CIRCLE_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Circle Developer-Controlled Wallet API key - alternative to AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY, no raw key in this process.
`ENTITY_SECRET`	No	Yes	Circle Developer-Controlled Wallet entity secret.
`CIRCLE_WALLET_ID`	No	No	Circle Developer-Controlled Wallet ID.
`CIRCLE_WALLET_ADDRESS`	No	No	Circle Developer-Controlled Wallet address.
`ARCBOUNTY_MAX_REWARD_USDC`	No	No	Optional, default 20. The largest reward post_bounty accepts for one bounty, in USDC.
`ARCBOUNTY_MAX_SPEND_USDC`	No	No	Optional, default 50. The most post_bounty posts in total during one run of the server, in USDC.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/Sofiia7/ARC
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 3 secrets: AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY, CIRCLE_API_KEY, ENTITY_SECRET
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account Sofiia7
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	arcbounty-mcp@0.6.2 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 7 files in arcbounty-mcp@0.6.2: 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 7 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 60 / 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.

Popularity11 / 40

2 GitHub stars, 286 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-08-13, 206 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 3 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

1 forks, 31 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.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.Sofiia7/arcbounty-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account Sofiia7
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account Sofiia7. 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 `arcbounty-mcp` 0.6.2 (stdio)
Version	0.6.2
Published	2026-10-05
Last updated	2026-10-05
Source repository	https://github.com/Sofiia7/ARC
Website	None linked
Category	Finance & payments (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arcbounty-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "arcbounty-mcp@0.6.2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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-sofiia7-arcbounty-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.