{"id":"vlakam-socks5-server","name":"socks5-server","af_score":18.8,"security_score":25.8,"reliability_score":5.0,"what_it_does":"socks5-server is a network service that implements the SOCKS5 protocol to relay client traffic through the server (functionally similar to a SOCKS5 proxy).","best_when":null,"avoid_when":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:32:03.346681+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["SOCKS5 username/password authentication (common for SOCKS5 implementations; exact method not verifiable from provided data)","IP allowlist / network-based access (possible; not verifiable from provided data)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["This is a network proxy (SOCKS5), not a structured API; an agent cannot 'call endpoints'—it must establish TCP connections and speak the SOCKS5 protocol.","If authentication is enabled, agents must correctly implement the SOCKS5 auth handshake; otherwise connections will fail.","Proxying arbitrary traffic complicates logging, auditing, and safe retries; naive retries can cause duplicated side effects for stateful protocols."],"error_quality":0.0}