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MCP Guardian MCP Server

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MCP Guardian runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 199 installs a week from npm. Last commit 8 Jun 2026.

Security, cost, and health governance proxy for MCP infrastructure

Installs per day peak 130 · avg 12 · +611% w/w
a month agotoday
199
Installs / week
npm · @mcp-guardian/server
4
Stars
0 open issues
8 Jun 2026
Last commit
no releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 3 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

    "regex": "(?:bash -i >&|nc\\s+-[nlvp]|ncat\\s+-[nlvp]|netcat\\s+-[nlvp]|socat\\s+|mkfifo\\s+|/dev/tcp/|python -c 'import socket)"
Deletes files or strips permissions src/agentic/protocol-fuzzer/mcp-fuzzer.ts:21
  { id: 'fuzz-008', category: 'sse-frame', payload: 'data: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"execute_command","arguments":{"command":"rm -rf /"}},"id":1}\n\n', target: 'tools/call', description: 'SSE frame injection' },
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.

Builds a file path from a variable src/wrap/client-wrap.ts:124
        path.join(installRoot, opts.policyPath),
    "regex": "(?:\\$\\(|`)\\s*(?:cat|head|tail|less|strings|bat|more|type)\\s+.*(?:~/\\.ssh\\/|id_rsa|id_ed25519|id_ecdsa|authorized_keys|known_hosts|\\.ssh\\/config)"
Dumps the whole environment src/proxy/proxy-server.ts:164
    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(process.env)) {
Page executes code built at runtime test-report-interactive.html:294
    el.innerHTML = stats(r) + r.results.map(function(x) {

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

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch MCP Guardian and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-guardian -- npx -y @mcp-guardian/server
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-guardian": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp-guardian/server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-guardian]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@mcp-guardian/server"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-guardian": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp-guardian/server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-guardian": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp-guardian/server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: MCP_GUARDIAN_DB_PATH (Path to SQLite history database), ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL (Slack or Discord webhook for critical alerts), METRICS_ENABLED (Expose Prometheus metrics).

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MCP Guardian — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Guardian?
MCP Guardian 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 @mcp-guardian/server was installed 199 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Guardian?
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-guardian/server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Guardian?
The npm package @mcp-guardian/server was installed 199 times in the last week. Week over week that is +611%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Guardian open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 4 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.