Skills/npm/xero-mcp

xero-mcp@2.2.3

VERIFIED· startup only

Publisher claims: "A Model Context Protocol server allows Clients to interact with Xero" Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry npm (MCP server)Publisher john-zhang-dev · publishing for 605 daysInstalls 873Last detonated 7 h ago
$claude mcp add xero-mcp -- npx -y xero-mcp
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Coverage

Startup only; authenticated tool behavior not tested.
Tested
server startup over stdio (initialize sent) · every file read, file written and host contacted by what ran
Not tested
the tool list (the server exited before answering) · what the tools do when called with real credentials

What this means for the label: Verified here covers what ran. The server's tools were not exercised with a real credential, so nothing about their behavior is asserted; the credential summary below says what to do with that.

Before you give it your token

It will ask for
XERO_CLIENT_SECRETConfiguration, not credentials: XERO_CLIENT_ID, XERO_REDIRECT_URI
Where it talks to
xero.com (its own)Also githubusercontent.com, twitter.com — not the publisher's domain; check what for before connecting.
What the honeypot saw
no credential files read · no network
What we could not test
the tool list (the server exited before answering) · what the tools do when called with real credentials

Connect it with a scoped credential, under the guard, and read the third-party hosts first. The code names githubusercontent.com, twitter.com as well as its own vendor. The guard injects XERO_CLIENT_SECRET only into requests to xero.com (and its subdomains) and refuses the rest.

$vet-skills run --secrets XERO_CLIENT_SECRET=xero.com -- npx -y xero-mcp

Never paste a credential into a chat, a ticket or a report, including ours. How the guard holds it.

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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (2 scenarios; startup only; authenticated tool behavior not tested) on 2026-11-14 and scored it 95/100 (Verified). In what ran, nothing we could detect went wrong: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. What it does with a real credential was not observed; the static findings and the publisher carry the rest of the score. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 36 s · 2 scenarios · 0 deviations
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
15sprocessdependency install exit 0
35sclaimedstartup only: exited (0) before answering · at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:103:5) at async onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:681:26) at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:117:5) Node.js v22.23.5
35sprocessscript backend runs setup only
35sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

No findings across 11,684 lines in 30 files.

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded
≈51 tok
1 file · 30 in bundle
Tool list per prompt
≈0 tok
0 tools · 0 per tool
Handshake
no reply
launch to tools/list, stdio
Undocumented tools
0
description under 20 chars · avg 0

Tokens estimated at four characters each. The tool list is re-read by the agent on every turn, so it is the number to compare between servers that do the same job: ranked across the index.

Known vulnerabilities

No advisories in OSV for xero-mcp@2.2.3 as of 6 h ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.

xero-mcp@2.2.3 safety verdict: Verified (startup only) — KillerSkills