mcp-airlock MCP Server
Governance proxy for MCP servers: allowlist, forced dry run, human confirmation, blast radius, audit
Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.
At a glance
Source code: Open repository
GitHub popularity: 27 stars on shalimov04/mcp-airlock, recorded 2026-10-02.
Status
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Connect
Published as mcp-airlock on pypi. Runs locally.
Reviewed GitHub reports
9 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.
Most discussed
OTLP span exporter behind an env var
Spans are produced already (execute_tool <tool> with gen_ai.* attributes, principal, verdict) but the only exporter wired in is the console one writing to --otel-file. Anyone running a collector has to patch the source.
What to do
src/mcp_airlock/__main__.py, setup_otel(). Add an OTLP HTTP exporter when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set, keeping the file exporter as it is so both can be on at once. Use BatchSpanProcessor for OTLP, not SimpleSpanProcessor. The dependency…
Read the thread · 2026-09-15 · open · 1 comment
Most recent
Helm chart for running the proxy in a cluster
The usual place for this proxy is next to an MCP server in Kubernetes, but the only deployment artifacts are a Dockerfile and a docker run line. A small chart would remove most of the work for anyone trying it in a cluster.
What to do
A charts/mcp-airlock/ chart, deliberately plain: Deployment, Service, ConfigMap for the policy file, and that is close to it. Notes on what matters:
- The policy goes in a ConfigMap mounted at
/data/policy.yaml;--policyalready points there in the…
Read the thread · 2026-09-15 · open · 0 comments
See all 9 reviewed GitHub reports.
Firsthand observations
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{
"query": "mcp-airlock",
"limit": 5
}
Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.
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curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
--data-urlencode 'query=mcp-airlock' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=5'
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