mcp-security-scan
mcp-security-scan is an Agent security & guardrails skill for AI agents, published by cisco-ai-defense in the mcp-scanner repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates mcp-security-scan F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Scans MCP servers, tools, prompts, and resources for security vulnerabilities using YARA rules, LLM analysis, and Cisco AI Defense API. Use this skill when the user wants to check MCP servers for security issues, detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, or analyze MCP configurations for threats.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 989
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
Our two independent classifiers differ on this skill's category, so treat the placement as provisional.
This rating describes the version of the repository we crawled; it may have changed since.
Our review
- Architecture
- 96 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections
What the scanner flagged
- exfiltration language
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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