Four short guides that answer the questions a home AI server actually raises — what an MCP server is, whether yours faces the internet, the checklist that keeps it safe, and how to read the verdict HomeShield gives you. Every guide ends at the same place: the free check, which reads your endpoint's real response.
Paste your home MCP endpoint's public URL into HomeShield's free check: it reads the response and grades it EXPOSED, REACHABLE, COVERED, or UNKNOWN — plus a tool-surface risk grade.
The home-lab MCP checklist: bind address, authentication, tunnel awareness, tool-surface minimisation, updates, and re-probing — each item mapped to what HomeShield checks.
An MCP server is a program that offers tools and data to AI apps over the Model Context Protocol. If you set up a home AI assistant, you probably run one — here is what it does and why it can end up facing the internet.
EXPOSED, REACHABLE, COVERED, UNKNOWN, and the tool-surface grades (None seen, Low, Medium, High): what each HomeShield result actually says about your home AI server, and what to do next for each.
These guides cover what the internet can see. For what it cannot — your LAN, your router, the services that never face outward — work through the local-scan guide and its companion script.
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