fortress

io.github.tiliondev/fortress

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 780 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-07-07
Health score 73

About fortress

fortress is an MCP server published by the GitHub account tiliondev. Stealth browser for AI agents: fetch pages behind Cloudflare/DataDome/CAPTCHA, extract clean data.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package tilion at version 0.1.3.

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

Version 0.1.3 was published on 7 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
`TILION_MCP_PREWARM`	No	No	Boot the browser at startup so the first tool call is instant (default 1).
`TILION_MCP_HEADLESS`	No	No	Set 0 to show a visible browser window (default 1).
`TILION_ALLOW_PRIVATE_EGRESS`	No	No	Set 1 to allow tools to reach localhost / private IPs (SSRF guard off).
`TILION_BASE_URL`	No	No	Run browsers on a hosted Tilion server instead of locally.
`TILION_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Bearer key for the hosted Tilion server (cloud mode only).

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/tiliondev/fortress
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: TILION_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account tiliondev
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	tilion 0.1.3 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 7 files in tilion 0.1.3: 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: 73 / 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.

Popularity25 / 40

783 GitHub stars, 194 downloads last week, 2 Hacker News posts (50 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity20 / 25

Last push 2026-10-23, last release 2026-09-30, 7 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

9 closed of 16 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

53 forks, 23 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

2 Hacker News threads linking to the source code. We link to them and copy nothing.

Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked 43 points, 53 comments, 2026-07-08
Show HN: Fortress – open-source Chromium that keeps browser agents unblocked 7 points, 3 comments, 2026-07-04

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

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.tiliondev/fortress`
Publisher	GitHub account tiliondev
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account tiliondev. 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	pypi `tilion` 0.1.3 (stdio)
Version	0.1.3
Published	2026-07-07
Last updated	2026-07-07
Source repository	https://github.com/tiliondev/fortress
Website	https://tilion.dev
Category	Browser automation (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fortress": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tilion==0.1.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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-tiliondev-fortress.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.