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auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning
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By mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (GitHub) · security · 35,906 stars · scanned at commit 54a7988
Audit MCP servers for tool poisoning, tool shadowing, rug pulls, SSRF, and unauthenticated exposure using Invariant Labs' mcp-scan for static/runtime scanning plus manual SSRF/auth checks and description pinning. Use before adding a new MCP server to an agent stack, when reviewing an internal MCP server, detecting rug pulls, or investigating an agent's unexpected tool-driven behavior.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this.
Found in 21 places.
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- skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 55
uvx --with "mcp-scan[proxy]" mcp-scan@latest proxy --help - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 58
pip install requests mcp - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 86
uvx mcp-scan@latest - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 89
uvx mcp-scan@latest ~/.vscode/mcp.json - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 92
uvx mcp-scan@latest --json ~/.cursor/mcp.json > mcp_scan_report.json - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 101
uvx mcp-scan@latest inspect ~/.cursor/mcp.json - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 111
uvx mcp-scan@latest ~/.cursor/mcp.json - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/SKILL.md, line 180
uvx --with "mcp-scan[proxy]" mcp-scan@latest proxy - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/references/api-reference.md, line 5
Run via uvx (no global install): `uvx mcp-scan@latest` - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/references/api-reference.md, line 16
uvx mcp-scan@latest ~/.vscode/mcp.json - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/references/api-reference.md, line 17
uvx mcp-scan@latest inspect ~/.cursor/mcp.json - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/references/api-reference.md, line 18
uvx --with "mcp-scan[proxy]" mcp-scan@latest proxy - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/references/api-reference.md, line 25
Install: `pip install mcp` - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/scripts/agent.py, line 56
runner = shutil.which("uvx") or shutil.which("mcp-scan") - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/scripts/agent.py, line 59
if "uvx" in runner else [runner, "--json", args.config]) - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/scripts/agent.py, line 69
findings["scanner"] = {"error": "uvx/mcp-scan not found; install uv: " - skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning/scripts/agent.py, line 70
"curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh"}
and 1 more places
Sends data to these websites: astral.sh, mcp-host
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a security skill.
Found in 3 places.
Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this. Expected for a security skill.
Found in 8 places.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '54a798831d2266a3ca61ce68a7acb80b81160d57' -- 'skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' ~/.agents/skills/'auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' ~/.claude/skills/'auditing-mcp-servers-for-tool-poisoning' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-08 | 54a7988 | 77 |
| 2026-11-07 | 54a7988 | 77 |