devspace

devspace is a self-hosted MCP server that gives an AI assistant like ChatGPT controlled access to your local projects. Instead of uploading your code anywhere, it exposes read, edit, search, and run operations on files already on your machine through a secure tunnel. MIT-licensed and free.

What you get is a cloud model working directly against a real codebase on your disk: it can edit files, search the tree, and run commands in your project. Setup is moderate, you run the server locally and stand up the tunnel yourself, but once it is connected the assistant operates on your actual code rather than pasted snippets.

It is a community project, not an official vendor integration, and the server itself is free. The cost is whatever AI client and model you point at it. This is worth it if you want ChatGPT or another MCP client working on local code without sending it to the cloud, and pointless if you already use a built-in agent like Claude Code that does this natively.

The catch is the security model. You are handing an AI read, write, and execute access to your machine through a tunnel, so the convenience is only as safe as that setup. Trust the tunnel and the allowlist before you trust the workflow, and do not point it at anything you cannot afford to have an agent touch.