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Search the Arch Wiki and the AUR, audit a PKGBUILD before you install it, and inspect your own system — from the conversation.

by nihalxkumar ↗Package Registries & Dependency Supply ChainCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

The AUR audit is the tool worth installing this for.

Reading a PKGBUILD carefully is the one step everybody skips, and having it checked against a red-flag list plus a maintainer trust score turns that into something you actually do. The guided update prompt does the same for the other classic mistake: check critical news, verify disk space, list what is coming, and check services — in that order, before you type the upgrade command.

What it is

An unofficial community server bridging AI assistants to the Arch Linux ecosystem: the Wiki, the AUR, the official repositories, and, when you are on Arch, the local pacman database and systemd state. Search and analysis tools work on any operating system.

What you get

  • Search anywhere: search_archwiki returns ranked Wiki results, search_aur sorts by relevance, votes, popularity or last modified, get_official_package_info covers the repositories
  • Safety before install: analyze_pkgbuild_safety checks a PKGBUILD against 50+ red flags, analyze_package_metadata_risk scores trust from votes, maintainer and age, and install_package_secure blocks packages it judges malicious
  • Maintenance on Arch: manage_orphans always dry-runs first, verify_package_integrity finds modified or missing files, manage_install_reason and query_file_ownership sort out what belongs to what
  • System state: get_system_info, check_disk_space, check_failed_services, get_boot_logs, check_database_freshness, and query_package_history over the pacman log
  • News that matters before an update: get_latest_news, check_critical_news for entries needing manual intervention, and get_news_since_last_update
  • Guided prompts that chain the above: troubleshoot_issue, audit_aur_package, analyze_dependencies and safe_system_update

Requirements

Python 3.11+ and uv; uvx arch-ops-server runs it with nothing to clone. Wiki, AUR, PKGBUILD analysis and news work on any system; the pacman, systemd and mirror tools are marked Arch-only or systemd-only and will not help elsewhere. No account and no API key.

Setup effort

One command — uvx arch-ops-server

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