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Curating Top Open Source Apps for Homelab Enthusiasts
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View guide →Know what changed on your servers — one Go binary, no database.
homebutler is an open-source self-hosted project by Higangssh (Higangssh/homebutler on GitHub). It has 298 GitHub stars and 22 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 3 October 2026.
One file — no database or agent to install.
Tell it which machines to watch.
It reports only changes worth knowing about.
Let AI assistants query your infra through the MCP server.
No database, no dependencies, just run it.
Nothing needs to run on the machines it watches.
Reports only changes that are worth telling.
AI assistants can query your infrastructure.
Fits naturally into chat-based ops workflows.
Free for personal and commercial use.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/Higangssh/homebutler.git
cd homebutlerEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at Higangssh/homebutler with 22 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
MIT licensed — commercial use allowed with attribution.
No — it is agentless; nothing runs on the watched machines.
It lets AI assistants query your infrastructure through the Model Context Protocol.
No — the single Go binary keeps things simple.
Curating Top Open Source Apps for Homelab Enthusiasts
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Free and open — grab the source, star the repo, and start creating.