Censys MCP Server

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Censys MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 312 installs a week from npm.

Query Censys Search: host lookup by IP and host search with the Censys query language.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 197 · avg 22 · +746% w/w

a month agotoday

312

Installs / week

npm · censys-mcp

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Stars

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Last commit

6 releases in 90 days

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License

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What the code does

We have not read this server's code yet, 15 d ago · rules ccca72095570

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Package points at a different repository mrfentmen/premium-mcps

пакет censys-mcp ссылается на mrfentmen/awesome-servers

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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 censys-mcp -- npx -y censys-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censys-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "censys-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.censys-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "censys-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censys-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "censys-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "censys-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "censys-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Censys MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Censys MCP?

Censys MCP 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 npm package censys-mcp was installed 312 times last week.

Is Censys MCP still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Censys MCP?

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 censys-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Censys MCP?

The npm package censys-mcp was installed 312 times in the last week. Week over week that is +746%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.