MCP Shield MCP Server

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MCP Shield runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 34 installs a week from npm. Last commit 9 Jun 2026.

Security scanner for MCP servers. SSRF, path traversal, injection, auth, secrets. Grade A-F.

Installs per day peak 11 · avg 6 · +77% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @sophiacave/mcp-shield

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0 open issues

9 Jun 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Shield 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-shield -- npx -y @sophiacave/mcp-shield

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-shield": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sophiacave/mcp-shield"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-shield]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@sophiacave/mcp-shield"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-shield": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sophiacave/mcp-shield"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-shield": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sophiacave/mcp-shield"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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MCP Shield — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Shield?

MCP Shield 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 @sophiacave/mcp-shield was installed 34 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Shield?

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 @sophiacave/mcp-shield straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use MCP Shield?

The npm package @sophiacave/mcp-shield was installed 34 times in the last week. Week over week that is +77%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is MCP Shield open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.