Helio MCP Server

Open-source governance for MCP agents: useful autonomy without unlimited authority

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

At a glance

GitHub popularity: 13 stars on gethelio/helio, recorded 2026-10-02.

Status

Pod has not dialled Helio yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Connect

Published as @gethelio/proxy on npm. Runs locally.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@gethelio/proxy"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Reviewed GitHub reports

35 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

Most discussed

[Feature] Dashboard: session_source filter and Session / Agent column rework

Problem

Audit records carry session_source since #218 (which identity strategy produced the session id: header, meta, legacy_header, transport, or sideband), and the audit detail panel shows it. But there is no way to filter the Feed or Audit views by it, and the Session / Agent column still renders agent_id ?? session_id with no hint of provenance. An operator watching a legacy_header deprecation migration cannot answer "which callers still resolve through the legacy…

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

Most recent

[Bug] A respawned stdio upstream child is never sent initialize

Description

When a stdio upstream child exits unexpectedly, the stdio wrapper respawns it and forwards the next request to the new child without sending initialize first. Nothing in the transport replays the handshake: StdioForwarder.forward writes the request it is given (packages/proxy/src/transport/stdio-wrapper.ts), and onUnexpectedExit only restarts the process.

A server that enforces the MCP handshake (FastMCP-style servers reject requests before initialization) then rejects…

Read the thread · 2026-09-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

See all 19 reviewed GitHub reports — of 35 qualified upstream.

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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Call find_mcp to find Helio, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Helio",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

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curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Helio' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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