openai/tunnel-client

Customer-run client for Secure MCP Tunnel: connect private or localhost MCP servers to ChatGPT, Codex, the Responses API, and AgentKit without exposing them to the public internet.

AI agentsGo#agentic#agentic-ai#agentic-workflow#chatgpt#cli

1.5 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 19, 2026.

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About the project

A Go client daemon for Secure MCP Tunnel: connects a private or localhost MCP server to ChatGPT, Codex, the Responses API, and AgentKit through an OpenAI-hosted tunnel without exposing it to the public internet.

Useful for

Connect a local MCP server to ChatGPT or Codex without inbound firewall rules
Deploy tunnel-client on Kubernetes or Docker and monitor it via /healthz, /readyz, and /metrics
Embed an MCP server directly in a Go process using tunnelclient.New and in-memory transport

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

4 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Go today: #16, +7 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 422
Stars in a day: 8
Forks: 85
Issues and pull requests: 44
Watchers: 4
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v0.0.14 · September 1, 2026
Created: December 10, 2025
Last push: September 19, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 19, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #16, +7 stars

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