MCP Watchdog MCP Server

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MCP Watchdog runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 102 installs a week from pypi.

MCP security proxy - detects and blocks 40+ MCP attack classes. Zero config.

Installs per day peak 52 · avg 21 · -20% w/w

a month agotoday

102

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Watchdog every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-watchdog -- uvx mcp-watchdog

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-watchdog": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-watchdog"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-watchdog]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-watchdog"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-watchdog": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-watchdog"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-watchdog": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-watchdog"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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MCP Watchdog — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Watchdog?

MCP Watchdog runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package mcp-watchdog was installed 102 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Watchdog?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-watchdog straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use MCP Watchdog?

The pypi package mcp-watchdog was installed 102 times in the last week. Week over week that is -20%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.