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mcp-observatory MCP Server

MCP security scanner. CI-native testing, attack simulation, health scoring, and SARIF.

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Connect

Published as @kryptosai/mcp-observatory on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

89 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Call for autonomous agent maintainers: tool reliability targets

This thread is for autonomous agent/runtime maintainers who want their agents to trust MCP tools without adding more operational burden.

MCP Observatory can help agent projects by checking the MCP tools they depend on for:

  • server startup and protocol compatibility
  • tool/prompt/resource schema drift
  • common schema/security footguns
  • simple evidence artifacts that agent maintainers can inspect or attach to CI

The ask is not “add a badge” or “use a hosted service.” The useful paths are smal

Read the thread · 2026-07-01 · closed · 6 comments

Call for MCP server maintainers: real-world compatibility targets

MCP Observatory is looking for maintainers of real MCP servers who want lightweight compatibility/security checks without adding another service account or dashboard.

The useful contribution paths are intentionally small:

  • share the safest startup command for your MCP server so we can add it as a real-world test target
  • add a read-only GitHub Action with npx @kryptosai/mcp-observatory setup-ci --all --command "<your server command>"
  • contribute a fixture or report artifact that teaches us

Read the thread · 2026-07-01 · closed · 4 comments

Drop an MCP server, get a receipt

This is the public MCP Observatory receipt intake thread.

Drop one public MCP server or package in a comment and we will try to turn it into a safe, reproducible receipt.

A normal receipt answers: what happened in this run? A delta receipt answers: what changed since the last trusted run?

A useful request includes:

  • public repo, package, docs, or directory listing
  • safe startup command, for example npx -y example-mcp
  • whether secrets are required
  • which agent/workflow depends on it
  • w

Read the thread · 2026-07-06 · closed · 3 comments

Add receipt keygen and receipt verify commands

What

Complete the Ed25519 receipt signing loop with two new subcommands on mcp-observatory receipt:

receipt keygen

Generates an Ed25519 key pair and writes them to files (or prints to stdout):

$ mcp-observatory receipt keygen
Public key saved:  mcp-observatory.pub
Private key saved: mcp-observatory.key

Keep the private key secure. Share the public key with anyone who needs to verify your receipts.

receipt verify <file> --key <pubkey>

Verifies a signed receipt against

Read the thread · 2026-07-17 · closed · 2 comments

Add scan result summary line showing passed/failed/warning counts

Summary

Add a summary line at the end of every scan output showing "X servers passed, Y failed, Z warnings" for quick scanning of results.

Files to modify

  • src/reporters/terminal.ts

What to change

  1. After all per-server results are printed, add a divider line and a summary block.
  2. Count servers by their worst result: all checks passed → "passed", any FAIL → "failed", only WARN → "warnings".
  3. Print the summary like:
    ─────────────────────────────
3 servers sca

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

Interoperability: CCS signed receipts as mcp-seatbelt verification backend

Context

I noticed the recent merge of "Add canonical MCP receipts" (#154) and "receipt signer binding" in the latest commits. The Observatory's receipt model — target, evidence, verdict, action — maps closely to what CCS produces, and I want to surface a potential composition point before the receipt format hardens further.

What CCS does

CCS (Correctover Conformance Shape) is an in-process runtime verification layer that sits between LLM decision and tool execution. Every MCP `tools/cal

Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Slice of #164: gate-check preflight command + declarative policy (score and finding thresholds)

Slice of #164 — close the loop on the client side.

#164 shipped the server-side runtime pieces: enforce (seatbelt policy generation + proxy wiring) and wrap/protect (fail-closed handshake against a passing receipt), plus the ObservatoryMonitor runtime. The honest remaining gap is a preflight gate-check that clients (opencode / Claude Code / Cursor / Codex) can query before allowing a connection, driven by declarative policy-as-code ("require score >= 70, no HIGH findings")

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

cloud login: speak the live /auth/device endpoints and auto-open the URL

Context

cloud login today implements RFC 8628 against a generic OIDC issuer (.well-known/openid-configuration), but the hosted IdP (mcp-observatory-cloud) exposes custom endpoints: POST /auth/device mints device_code/user_code and POST /auth/device/token exchanges a JSON {device_code} for a session token. The CLI cannot discover or call these, so login is a manual copy-paste flow that doesn't actually complete against production.

Scope

  • Add performCloudDeviceFlow() to `sr

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · open · 0 comments

Should lock verification canonicalize JSON Schema property order before reporting drift?

I was reviewing verifyAgainstLock in src/lockfile.ts at commit 826545468f11e5c762b246eb1d6d53a85b75af57.

Tool schemas are compared with JSON.stringify(locked.inputSchema) !== JSON.stringify(current.inputSchema). Two semantically equivalent JSON Schemas can have the same keys inserted in a different order, which appears capable of producing a “schema changed” result even though the accepted inputs are unchanged.

Is property-order-only variation intended to count as drift, or should sche

Read the thread · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Add --timeout flag to demo command

What

mcp-observatory demo scans a built-in or discovered MCP server using the default 15s timeout. Some servers (especially ones that need to download packages) take longer and fail unnecessarily.

Add --timeout <ms> flag:

$ mcp-observatory demo --timeout 30000

Files

  • src/commands/demo.ts — add .option('--timeout <ms>', 'Timeout in milliseconds', '15000') and pass it to runTarget() via targetConfig.timeoutMs

Acceptance

  • --timeout 30000 sets a 30s timeout

Read the thread · 2026-07-17 · closed · 0 comments

Add --browser flag to cloud login for direct OAuth redirect

What

mcp-observatory cloud login uses device authorization flow (RFC 8628) which requires the user to open a URL and type a code. For desktop users, a direct browser redirect is faster.

Add --browser flag that:

  1. Starts a local HTTP server on a random port (e.g. http://localhost:18923/callback)
  2. Opens the browser to the OIDC authorize URL with redirect_uri=http://localhost:18923/callback
  3. Listens for the callback, extracts the authorization code
  4. Exchanges it for tokens at th

Read the thread · 2026-07-17 · closed · 1 comment

Add --ci-provider flag to setup-ci command

What

The setup-ci command / initCi() already supports 5 CI providers internally (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps) but there's no CLI flag to select one. Auto-detection works, but users can't override.

Add a --ci-provider flag:

$ mcp-observatory setup-ci --all --ci-provider gitlab-ci
$ mcp-observatory setup-ci --all --ci-provider circleci
$ mcp-observatory setup-ci --all --ci-provider bitbucket-pipelines
$ mcp-observatory setup-ci --all --ci-provider az

[Read the thread](https://github.com/KryptosAI/mcp-observatory/issues/289) · 2026-07-17 · closed · 1 comment

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for mcp-observatory](/mcp/mcp-observatory/issues) — of 89 qualified upstream.

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