htb-hosts

Enables sudo-free management of /etc/hosts entries for Hack The Box and lab work, with a zero-dependency MCP server for AI coding agents.

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

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// required environment variables

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

configHTB_HOSTS_FILE— /etc/hosts Target hosts file (handy for testing)

configHTB_HOSTS_BACKUP_DIR— ~/.local/state/htb-hosts Where snapshots are stored

configHTB_HOSTS_KEEP— (empty) Comma-separated domain substrings to keep outside the block on migrate (e.g. a homelab domain: HTB_HOSTS_KEEP=corp.lan,homelab.internal)

configLOGNAME

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commit: c6fc16dc0b41216f2a24bb8c62f6b5632870c1f0

code hash: de82a71411b2dd4b8b852584e0be76cbbf68c40cf10b76236b92cd6a48a4d38f

verified: 7/12/2026, 8:37:13 AM

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