# humane-proxy MCP Server

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `humane-proxy` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### [Backend] Upgrade Redis Backend for Multi-Process / Distributed Environments

### 🎯 Objective
Refactor the current Redis storage backend to properly support multi-process (e.g., multiple Uvicorn workers) and distributed environments using atomic operations or distributed locks.

### 💡 Why this matters
Currently, HumaneProxy supports Redis as a backend, but the rate-limiting and trajectory window logic relies on in-memory state or non-atomic Redis operations. If an enterprise deploys HumaneProxy behind a load balancer with 4 Gunicorn/Uvicorn workers, race conditions can oc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Vishisht16/Humane-Proxy/issues/5) · 2026-04-04 · open · 10 comments

### [BUG]  Direct SQLite Bypass in Admin API, CLI, and MCP

## Describe the Bug
The Admin API endpoints, CLI query tools `hp escalations/hp session`, and the MCP tool `list_recent_escalations `bypass the active swappable storage backend (Postgres/Redis) and query a local SQLite database directly using `sqlite3.connect()`.

## To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Configure `humane_proxy.yaml` to use a non-default storage backend:
   ```yaml
   storage:
     backend: "redis"
     redis:
       url: "redis://localhost:6379/0"
2. Log an escala

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Vishisht16/Humane-Proxy/issues/37) · 2026-05-29 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### [Feature] Add --dry-run flag to humane-proxy start

hey @Vishisht16 ,
Operators have no way to validate a full deployment config before going live. A --dry-run flag on humane-proxy start should: parse humane_proxy.yaml, verify Stage 3 API keys with a lightweight probe, send a test ping to configured webhooks, and print the resolved active pipeline config — then exit without binding a port. Lives depend on correct configuration; this makes misconfiguration visible before it matters.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Vishisht16/Humane-Proxy/issues/27) · 2026-05-21 · open · external user · 7 comments

### Security hardening: protect HTTP MCP tools and make risk snapshot reads side-effect free

## Description

While reviewing the MCP and agent-integration surfaces, I noticed that HumaneProxy's HTTP MCP mode can expose sensitive safety/audit tools without an authentication boundary, and the session-risk read path appears to mutate trajectory state.

The MCP server exposes tools such as `check_message_safety`, `get_session_risk`, and `list_recent_escalations`. This is useful for agent workflows, but the HTTP transport currently binds broadly and does not appear to require a token before 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Vishisht16/Humane-Proxy/issues/15) · 2026-05-15 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Insecure Default / Unauthenticated MCP Server Exposure

File: humane_proxy/mcp_server.py Description: In serve_http(), the code checks if the server is binding to a public host (e.g., 0.0.0.0) via _is_public_bind_host(host). If it is public and no authentication token (HUMANE_PROXY_ADMIN_KEY) is provided, it only logs a warning instead of raising an error or enforcing authentication. It then proceeds to call mcp.run(...) without the auth provider. Impact: This exposes the MCP server unauthenticated to the public internet by default if an admin misses

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Vishisht16/Humane-Proxy/issues/46) · 2026-06-02 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for humane-proxy](/mcp/humane-proxy/issues).

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