Homebutler – Self-healing homelab in a single Go binary

What it does

Other tools give you dashboards. homebutler gives you a conversation. 3 AM. Disk hits 91%. No laptop, no SSH. Ask your AI — it restarts the container, disk drops to 66%. Back to sleep. A single Go binary with built-in MCP server. Connect to Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI agent. AI calls homebutler tools but never gets raw shell access. AI → MCP → homebutler → SSH. Secure by design. Today: CLI + MCP + Web dashboard. Tomorrow: infrastructure that manages itself.

Homebutler turns server maintenance into narrow, readable operations: report what changed, map exposed ports, catch crashes, and verify backups. One Go binary. CLI, web, JSON, or MCP — no SSH key required. Install with brew install Higangssh/homebutler/homebutler , then run homebutler report to see what changed on your server since last time. This page has an interactive demo that needs JavaScript, but everything above is the whole product: a single Go binary you run on your ownfrom homebutler.dev

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