DarwinRelay (dcierra/darwinrelay) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. M8ven has not graded it: there is no public source to read and no endpoint we can reach, so there is nothing for us to inspect. No publisher has claimed this listing.

C
Emerging
74/100
6 days ago

DarwinRelay

Enables MCP agents to control macOS natively with shell, PTY, background Chrome automation, and Accessibility-based desktop control.

Emerging. No concerning findings. Grades remain capped until the project builds reputation through adoption. Grades reflect the full trust pyramid: code, verification depth, and reputation. New projects cap at C until adoption is earned.

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dcierra

Source: Glama

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// key findings
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
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You'll be asked for 3 credentials: CONTROL_PLANE_API_KEY, DARWINRELAY_HTTP_TOKEN, DARWINRELAY_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configCODEX_BIN
🔐 secretCONTROL_PLANE_API_KEY
configDARWINRELAY_ADVANCED_BROWSERAn optional raw Browser Harness/CDP adapter exists behind =1. It is disabled by default and fails closed under Strict approvals because arbitrary CDP cannot be soundly reduced to URL scopes.
configDARWINRELAY_ADVANCED_BROWSER_NAME
configDARWINRELAY_ADVANCED_BROWSER_RUNTIME_DIR
configDARWINRELAY_ADVANCED_BROWSER_SOCKET
configDARWINRELAY_AUDIT_LOG
configDARWINRELAY_AUDIT_MODEUse environment variables such as DARWINRELAY_DATA_DIR, DARWINRELAY_LOG_DIR, DARWINRELAY_SHELL, and to isolate development/test instances.
configDARWINRELAY_BACKGROUND_CHROME_GRANT_DIR
configDARWINRELAY_BODY_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS
configDARWINRELAY_CHROME_SOCKET
configDARWINRELAY_DATA_DIRUse environment variables such as , DARWINRELAY_LOG_DIR, DARWINRELAY_SHELL, and DARWINRELAY_AUDIT_MODE to isolate development/test instances.
configDARWINRELAY_DEFAULT_OUTPUT_BYTES
configDARWINRELAY_ENTRY
configDARWINRELAY_FOREGROUND_GUI_APPROVAL_FILE
configDARWINRELAY_FULL_ACCESS_ACKexport =I_UNDERSTAND_THIS_GRANTS_FULL_ACCESS
configDARWINRELAY_GUI_FOCUS_POLICY
configDARWINRELAY_HTTP_PORT
configDARWINRELAY_HTTP_TIMEOUT_MS
🔐 secretDARWINRELAY_HTTP_TOKEN
configDARWINRELAY_HTTP_TOKEN_FILEexport ="$HOME/Library/Application Support/DarwinRelay/http-token"
configDARWINRELAY_LOG_DIRUse environment variables such as DARWINRELAY_DATA_DIR, , DARWINRELAY_SHELL, and DARWINRELAY_AUDIT_MODE to isolate development/test instances.
configDARWINRELAY_MAX_BUFFERED_BYTES
configDARWINRELAY_MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES
configDARWINRELAY_MCP_PING_IDLE_MS
configDARWINRELAY_MCP_SERVERS
configDARWINRELAY_MCP_SERVERS_JSON
configDARWINRELAY_MCP_START_DEADLINE_MS
configDARWINRELAY_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID
🔐 secretDARWINRELAY_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET
configDARWINRELAY_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URIS
configDARWINRELAY_PERSONAL_APPROVAL_FILE
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_HELPER
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_MAX_LIFETIME_MS
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_MAX_SESSIONS
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_PERL
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_RING_BYTES
configDARWINRELAY_PTY_START_TIMEOUT_MS
configDARWINRELAY_PUBLIC_URL
configDARWINRELAY_SETTINGS_FILE
configDARWINRELAY_SHELLUse environment variables such as DARWINRELAY_DATA_DIR, DARWINRELAY_LOG_DIR, , and DARWINRELAY_AUDIT_MODE to isolate development/test instances.
configDARWINRELAY_UI_CURSOR_HELPER
configDARWINRELAY_UI_HELPER
configDARWINRELAY_UNLOCK_FILE
configDARWINRELAY_UNLOCK_RECHECK_MS
// quality suggestions

Shell command execution

16 child_process/subprocess calls in production code — runs shell commands (mcp-http.mjs:320, mcp-http.mjs:583, mcp-http.mjs:1145)

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commit: 506867d298bb95996082fc7d5384f7eba6f49590
code hash: 4b13ce475413077845e15a508e9aa3032b6e0a4dccf23c98c4fe774594ae12bb
verified: 8/20/2026, 9:04:26 AM
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