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WangYihang/Platypus

:hammer: A modern, cross-platform machine manager observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/WangYihang/Platypus · Go · LGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

67/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2941
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1656 stars · 227 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Platypus is a cross-platform reverse-shell and host management hub written in Go. Agents on managed machines dial back to a central server over TLS + protobuf, giving operators interactive shells, file transfer, and network tunneling through a REST/WebSocket API and a Wails desktop client.

Use cases

  • manage reverse shell sessions from multiple hosts in one place
  • get an interactive shell on remote machines behind NAT
  • set up SOCKS5 and port-forward tunnels through compromised or managed hosts
  • upload and download files to remote hosts from a central console
  • run commands across a fleet of Linux servers at once
  • build automation on top of a C2-style REST API with a Python SDK

When to choose

  • you need a modern, self-hosted reverse shell manager with a desktop GUI and REST API
  • you manage many machines across different networks and want one hub with multiple ingress ports
  • you need encrypted (TLS) agent channels and chunked file transfer out of the box
  • you want Docker Compose one-click deployment with a web UI

When to avoid

  • you need a lightweight single-binary reverse shell without a server/client architecture
  • you require a built-in web UI in the server itself (the server is API-only; UI ships separately)
  • you need a full-featured commercial C2 with advanced evasion or post-exploitation modules
  • your use case is legitimate fleet configuration management rather than interactive shell access

Facets

application · maturity active

security networking http-server websocket cli gui security penetration-testing networking developer-tools windows cross-platform self-hosted go reverse-shell c2 remote-shell host-management port-forwarding socks5-proxy red-team file-transfer wails-desktop linux macos docker

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Member repositories

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