portal-tunnel

Name: portal-tunnel Review
Item: portal-tunnel
Rating: 3.0
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Usable

Works inClaude Code

Usable Scanned — metadata only

Enables secure, self-hosted connectivity between local development environments and autonomous AI agents.

Publishes localhost services to the agentic web through self-hostable, trustless relays.

Expose local development services to external AI agents via secure relays
Create trustless tunnels to connect localhost applications to the web
Host your own relay server to maintain control over service access

291 starsMIT (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup

Usable rating — This tool is functional but has notable gaps. Review the evaluation notes below before deploying.

Why it matters

Enables secure, self-hosted connectivity between local development environments and autonomous AI agents. This mitigates the security risks of exposing internal services while allowing agentic workflows to interact with private local resources.

Best for

DevOps engineers and AI researchers building secure integration layers between local services and agentic web protocols.

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Source

https://github.com/gosuda/portal-tunnel

By gosuda

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

claude plugins install gosuda/portal-tunnel

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

Auto-generated from the tool's public listing — not hands-on verified. Cross-check against the source repo's README before running.

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me expose local development services to external AI agents via secure relays

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars291Last updated2026-10-27LicenseMIT (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-10-27 · scanner v1

Community Pulse Emerging

Discussed on Hacker News

Show HN: Portal – Relay network to expose local services to public web endpoint — Hacker News · 2 pts

1 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 291 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license MIT.

Things to check

Scanned, not hands-on tested — this entry was auto-scanned from public metadata (GitHub metrics, license, security flags). No reviewer has run it, and no tool-specific limitations have been documented yet.

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

3/5

Versatility

3/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score3.00 / 5.00 UsableEvaluatedOct 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 291 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license MIT.

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