MCP Safeguard MCP Server

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MCP Safeguard runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 125 installs a week from pypi.

MCP server security scanner: detects prompt injection, credential leaks, SSRF, tool poisoning.

Installs per day peak 226 · avg 30 · -39% w/w

a month agotoday

125

Installs / week

pypi · mcp-safeguard

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0 releases in 90 days

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Safeguard 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-safeguard -- uvx mcp-safeguard

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

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MCP Safeguard — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Safeguard?

MCP Safeguard 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-safeguard was installed 125 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Safeguard?

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

How many people use MCP Safeguard?

The pypi package mcp-safeguard was installed 125 times in the last week. Week over week that is -39%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.