Guaardvark MCP server
io.github.guaardvark/guaardvark·v3.3.0·288 starsLocal AI studio on your GPU: images, video, music, voice, RAG. Needs the Guaardvark app installed.
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Guaardvark tools
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Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-27 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- Code scan70 source files scanned20/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner6/10
Findings (1)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-trueguaardvark-3.3.0/llx/local_tools.py: …Captures output (truncated). Never uses shell=True for safety.""" base = cwd or Path.c…
How Guaardvark compares
Against every graded AI and agents MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 82/100
- higher than 65% of 4,464 AI and agents servers
- GitHub stars
- 288
- more than 95% of 2,697 AI and agents servers
- Downloads a week
- 335
- more than 81% of 1,515 AI and agents servers with a package
Install Guaardvark in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add guaardvark -- uvx guaardvark
What the publisher says
From the Guaardvark repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
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Guaardvark
The self-hosted AI studio. Chat with your own files, hand tasks to agents that use a real desktop and browser, run parallel coding agents, and generate video, images, music and voice. Everything runs locally, on your own GPU.
Quick start · Features · Videos · FAQ · Full capability list · guaardvark.com
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Why Guaardvark
- It runs on your machine. Language models, retrieval, agents and every generator run on your own hardware, through Ollama, ComfyUI and Guaardvark's own GPU services. No cloud API keys, no per-token or per-minute fees, nothing reported home. Web access, posting and every other outbound path stay off until you switch them on or start them, and all of them are declared in one file, egress.json.
- One install is the whole studio. Chat and RAG, screen agents, coding swarms and a full media pipeline share one GPU through a single orchestrator, so a video render and a language model take turns instead of fighting over VRAM.
- Your coding agent can drive it. A built-in MCP server, fifteen agent skills and a Claude Code plugin let Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents run every flow: "make a music video from this song", "film this script", "train a LoRA of this character", "swarm this refactor".
- You approve what matters. Nothing posts and no voice is cloned without an explicit yes from you, and fixes Guaardvark writes for its own code wait for your review. The MCP server hides desktop, shell and browser tools unless you allowlist them.
Quick start
Linux with an NVIDIA GPU (16 GB for video, 12 GB for the Wan 2.2 5B; chat, RAG and agents run on less, see the hardware tiers). A fresh Ubuntu desktop has no curl or git; run sudo apt install -y curl git first.
curl -fsSL https://guaardvark.com/install.sh | bashThen open http://localhost:5173. The script is install.sh from this repository: it clones to ~/guaardvark and runs ./start.sh, which installs everything on the first run. To read it before it runs, download it first (curl -fsSL https://guaardvark.com/install.sh -o install.sh, read it, then bash install.sh), or install by hand.
Add it to Claude Code (two lines, no clone):
/plugin marketplace add guaardvark/guaardvark
/plugin install guaardvark@guaardvarkShortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Guaardvark: common questions
- Is Guaardvark MCP server safe?
- Mostly: it is graded B (82/100). Read the Guaardvark safety report
- How do I install Guaardvark?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Guaardvark need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Guaardvark maintained?
- The last commit was 9 days ago (2026-10-24). The latest release is v3.3.0.
- What can I use instead of Guaardvark?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Runapi MCP server, Agent-Native Assets MCP server and WaveSpeed MCP server. Compare all Guaardvark alternatives.
- How does Guaardvark compare with other AI and agents MCP servers?
- safety score 82/100 (higher than 65% of 4,464 AI and agents servers); github stars 288 (more than 95% of 2,697 AI and agents servers); downloads a week 335 (more than 81% of 1,515 AI and agents servers with a package). Full comparison.
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