MCP Supply Audit

mcp-supply-audit

Audits MCP servers as software artifacts: registry entries, packages, configs, tool definitions.

An MCP server. Static checks only. It never runs the code it inspects.

Status: pre-release, in development. Not yet published. Nothing here is a security guarantee.

Why this exists

Most MCP security scanners focus on tool descriptions. This project looks at the server as a supply-chain artifact: does the registry entry match its package and repo, is the name close to a popular one, what do the package version's own metadata and advisories say, and what does the config you are about to copy actually do.

What works today

Six tools, served over stdio by a FastMCP server (tool surface). All are read-only and take names or pasted text, never a path.

• audit_server: runs the checks below that apply to one server (a registry name, or a package name plus pypi/npm) concurrently under a 30 s deadline, and returns one merged report. A check that fails or times out is listed as skipped; the rest of the report still returns.
• audit_registry_entry: an MCP Registry entry's repository consistency with its packages, owner match, package and version existence, ownership markers, status, and remote URLs (as text).
• audit_package: one PyPI or npm package version's OSV.dev advisories, yanked or deprecated state, install scripts (npm only), provenance, publish recency (PyPI only) and declared repository.
• check_typosquat: whether a name is close to one in a dated reference list (curated PyPI and npm names; for registry names, also names crawled from the MCP Registry).
• scan_mcp_config: an MCP client config's servers, for unpinned runners, plain-http remotes, hardcoded secrets, shell wrappers, broad paths, non-registry sources and risky env.
• scan_tool_definitions: checks a tools/list snapshot for hidden Unicode, instruction-like phrasing, cross-tool references, exfiltration phrasing, encoded blobs, and other indicators.

Outbound requests go only to registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, pypi.org, registry.npmjs.org and api.osv.dev.

Quick start

Not on PyPI yet: these commands work once the package is published. Until then, run it from a source checkout.

For Claude Code, with uv:

claude mcp add mcp-supply-audit -- uvx mcp-supply-audit

Pinned to one version (uvx's package@version form):

claude mcp add mcp-supply-audit -- uvx mcp-supply-audit@0.1.0

scan_mcp_config flags the first form in the configs it scans (CF001, unpinned package runner).

From a source checkout

Run it from a checkout of this repository with uv:

cd mcp-supply-audit

uv sync

Then point an MCP client at the mcp-supply-audit console script in that checkout. For Claude Code:

claude mcp add mcp-supply-audit -- uv --directory /path/to/mcp-supply-audit run mcp-supply-audit

For clients configured with JSON (e.g. Claude Desktop's mcpServers):

{

"mcpServers": { "mcp-supply-audit": { "command": "uv", "args": ["--directory", "/path/to/mcp-supply-audit", "run", "mcp-supply-audit"] } } }

Then ask, for example, "Is the MCP server / safe to install?" and the client can call audit_server. Read the report's skipped checks: a report with no findings is not proof of safety.

Design principles

• Never executes a scan target. Static analysis and metadata only. No tool accepts a filesystem path.
• Hostile input by default. Text from a target is sanitized, capped, and returned only as quoted evidence under untrusted_text. Hidden characters are shown as visible \uXXXX escapes.
• Deterministic rules, no LLM in detection. Results are reproducible and unit-tested.
• Findings are indicators, not verdicts. Every report lists which checks ran and which were skipped, and states that no findings is not proof of safety.
• Mapped to the OWASP MCP Top 10 (beta, v0.1), by ID.

Limits

Static checks cannot see runtime behavior. Audit and telemetry gaps, shadow servers, and context over-sharing are outside what this tool can detect.

Per-check limits: registry checks, package checks, typosquat checks, config checks.

Evaluation

No benchmark has been run yet.

Development

uv sync

uv run pytest -q uv run ruff check uv run ruff format --check

Security

To report a vulnerability in this project, see SECURITY.md.

License

MIT