# Homebutler

> 🏠 Tells you what changed on your server — only what's worth telling.

- **Website:** https://github.com/Higangssh/homebutler
- **Pricing:** unknown
- **Categories:** Developer Tools, Data & Analytics
- **Tags:** developer-tools, data-analytics, design
- **Platforms:** Web, CLI
- **Last verified:** 2026-09-10
- **Canonical page:** https://linkrena.com/tools/homebutler

## About

A single Go binary that remembers what your server looked like last time, and tells you — or an agent — what moved.

Section rules, labels, and severities are colour-coded in a terminal. Colour is dropped automatically when output is piped, redirected, or run from cron.

That is the whole idea. Most homelab tools show you a graph of right now, and leave "does this matter?" to you. HomeButler remembers what your server looked like last time, decides what is worth saying, and says it — six containers before and six after is not "no change" when one of them is a different container.

Every line is three columns: what kind of change , what it happened to , and what exactly happened . The kind is one of eight words, and it is the same word in --json , so an agent branches on it without reading prose:

The header names the snapshot being compared against, so "what changed" is never ambiguous about the window it covers.

Can I install this self-hosted app without hand-writing another compose file?

No daemon required. No database. No always-on web service. Just one Go binary you can use from the terminal, scripts, a web dashboard, or AI tools.

The design goal is simple: give humans and agents a narrow, structured interface to the server. HomeButler returns readable summaries and JSON instead of asking you to trust a black-box shell session.

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