Pentest MCP Server

Enables AI agents to perform autonomous penetration testing on any Linux distribution via SSH with persistent tmux sessions, supporting interactive tools like Metasploit, reverse shells, and complex multi-step security workflows.

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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 2 credentials: TARGET_PASSWORD, TARGET_SSH_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configTARGET_HOST— ssh kali@<>

configTARGET_PORT

configTARGET_USER— "": "kali",

🔐 secretTARGET_PASSWORD— your_password

🔐 secretTARGET_SSH_KEY— =/path/to/private/key

configMAX_SESSIONS

configMAX_HEAVY_TASKS

configPOLL_INTERVAL

configDEFAULT_TIMEOUT

configMAX_RECONNECT_ATTEMPTS

configRECONNECT_DELAY_BASE— 2 # Exponential backoff base

configTMUX_SOCKET_NAME— mcp-pentest

// full audit trail

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commit: 090c38f9e3db8453c00c2e9fdeb0152e600acc45

code hash: efcc215d012c69c2a1504d4c4ea3bea66998da2f5f20f10b090e037e57500502

verified: 6/18/2026, 11:08:43 AM

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