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mcpshape@0.1.2

VERIFIED· not started

Publisher claims: "A local proxy that reshapes what MCP servers expose." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher void-freud · publishing for 66 daysInstalls 264Last detonated 3d ago
$claude mcp add mcpshape -- uvx mcpshape
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Coverage

Not started: dependency install failed; the server itself was not observed.
Tested
the dependency install step · every file read, file written and host contacted by what ran
Not tested
server startup · the tool list · tool behavior

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
GH_TOKEN or --oauth
Where it talks to
no vendor host named in the codeAlso githubusercontent.com, claude.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
server startup · the tool list · tool behavior

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

$vet-skills run --net declared -- uvx mcpshape

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

Is [email protected] safe to install?

KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (2 scenarios; not started: dependency install failed; the server itself was not observed) on 2026-11-11 and scored it 86/100 (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 · 0 s · 2 scenarios · 0 deviations
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
0.1sprocessdependency install exit 1 ·
0.1sclaimednot started: dependency install failed (exit 1); the server itself was not observed
0.1sprocessscript backend runs setup only
0.1sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

MEDIUM
Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/mcpshape/autostart.py:204 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run(["launchctl", "unload", str(path)], check=False) # noqa: S603, S607Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/mcpshape/autostart.py:213 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run(["loginctl", "enable-linger", getpass.getuser()], check=False) # noqa: S603, S607Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagesrc/mcpshape/cli/__init__.py:20 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeepilog=example("add github --stdio 'npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github'"),Fix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/mcpshape/autostart.py:208 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run(["systemctl", "--user", "daemon-reload"], check=True) # noqa: S607Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/mcpshape/autostart.py:200 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run(["launchctl", "load", "-w", str(path)], check=True) # noqa: S603, S607Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/mcpshape/autostart.py:209 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run( # noqa: S603Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagesrc/mcpshape/cli/__init__.py:58 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted code"add", epilog=example("add github --stdio 'npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github'")Fix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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MCP server using network transport (SSE/HTTP)src/mcpshape/cli/proxy.py:362 · MCP server using network transport (SSE/HTTP) — data sent over networkplain(json_snippet(("mcpServers",), server, {"type": "http", "url": url}))Fix: Namespace tool names and keep tool descriptions literal; no instructions to the agent inside them.
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Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/mcpshape/cli/serve.py:113 · Python subprocess execution detectedreturn subprocess.Popen( # a fixed command line, run from sys.executableFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagesrc/mcpshape/cli/upstream.py:178 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeepilog=example("upstream add github --stdio 'npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github'"),Fix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
AST06

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded
≈47 tok
1 file · 47 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 mcpshape@0.1.2 as of 3d ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.