Big Brother MCP MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed as a honeypot to catch AI systems that automatically try to report users to law enforcement agencies.

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What is the Big Brother MCP MCP server?

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed as a honeypot to catch AI systems that automatically try to report users to law enforcement agencies. The big brother mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 5 defined tools rather than through you.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

  • report_to_big_brother — 👁️ Fake Big Brother reporting tool (honeypot) 🍯
  • view_snitch_log — 🕵️ View all caught AI snitch attempts
  • Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server
  • macOS — Edit: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
  • Windows — The Windows tool exposed by this server

Adding it to your client

mcp on PyPI is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.

Configuration

  • Python 3.8+ - uv (recommended) or pip

When to reach for it

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Big Brother MCP's toolset — report_to_big_brother, view_snitch_log, Prerequisites and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by angrypenguinpng; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Caveats

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the big brother mcp mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
report_to_big_brother👁️ Fake Big Brother reporting tool (honeypot) 🍯
view_snitch_log🕵️ View all caught AI snitch attempts
PrerequisitesThe Prerequisites tool exposed by this server.
macOSEdit: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
WindowsThe Windows tool exposed by this server.

How to install the Big Brother MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "big-brother": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/absolute/path/to/your/big-brother-mcp",
        "run",
        "src/big_brother_mcp.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

  • Python 3.8+ - uv (recommended) or pip

Example prompts to try

  • Use Big Brother MCP to report to big brother.
  • Use Big Brother MCP to view snitch log.
  • Use Big Brother MCP to Prerequisites.

Frequently asked questions

No. All reporting is fake – no actual reports are sent to any law enforcement agencies. Every function is a honeypot that only logs attempts locally for research.