# expty-mcp

> High-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interactive PTY processes, SSH, and Serial streams with zero-loss continuous ingestion and atomic Expect state machine.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/expty-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/weyou/expty-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/weyou/expty-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: antigravity, claude, cursor, expect, interactive, mcp, model-context-protocol, pty, serial, ssh, terminal
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:expty-mcp

### Description (declared)

# expty-mcp

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**`expty-mcp`** is a high-performance **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** server that equips AI assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, VS Code) with persistent, zero-loss **Interactive PTY Process and Serial Communication** capabilities.

Engineered specifically for **persistent SSH sessions, remote server administration, local shells, REPLs, container debugging, and hardware serial ports (UART/U-Boot)**. It features an **Atomic Expect Engine**, continuous background ingestion daemon, transport-level microsecond timestamping with intelligent 50ms continuation detection, and full cross-chunk ANSI sanitization.

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## Architecture Design

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## Key Features

- **Zero-Loss Background Daemon**: Dedicated reader daemon continuously ingests bytes into memory in real time—eliminating dropped output during LLM reasoning pauses.
- **Unified PTY & Serial Transports**: Seamlessly spawn local processes (`bash`, `python`, `gdb`), SSH sessions (`ssh user@router`), or connect to physical UART devices (`/dev/ttyUSB0`, `COM3`).
- **Accurate Transport-Level Timestamping**: Timestamps are stamped at the moment bytes leave the OS kernel/driver system call, avoiding queue or scheduling jitter.
- **Smart 50ms Packet Continuation**: 
  - Packet fragments arriving within `< 50ms` are smoothly merged into a single line.
  - Fragments arriving after `>= 50ms` (e.g. driver pause, slow command) are split into separate lines tagged with `↳ ` and their own timestamp—enabling effortless correlation against test framework logs (Pytest, RobotFramework).
- **Atomic Expect Engine (`expect`)**: Match regex or substring prompt patterns atomically (`['password:', '# ', '>>>']`) with…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (1, declared)
- infra.devices (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/expty-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-15T14:25:17.775Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/expty-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/expty-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:expty-mcp