mendeley-mcp@0.8.0
VERIFIED· not startedPublisher claims: "MCP server for Mendeley reference manager - search, retrieve, and manage your academic library" Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.
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
MENDELEY_ACCESS_TOKENMENDELEY_CLIENT_SECRETMENDELEY_REFRESH_TOKENor--client-secretConfiguration, not credentials: MENDELEY_CLIENT_ID- Where it talks to
- mendeley.com (its own)
- 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. It asks for MENDELEY_ACCESS_TOKEN, MENDELEY_CLIENT_SECRET, MENDELEY_REFRESH_TOKEN and talks to mendeley.com. Give the credential to the guard, not the server: the value never enters the server's environment and only travels to the host you bind. What the tools do with a real credential was not observed.
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 85/100 (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 deviationsStatic findings
fd, temporary = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=CREDENTIALS_FILE.parent, prefix=".credentials-")Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.process = subprocess.Popen(Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.RUN pip install --no-cache-dir /src && rm -rf /srcFix: Build commands from fixed arguments; do not interpolate untrusted strings into a shell.result = subprocess.run(Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.result = subprocess.run(Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.Cost to the agent
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 mendeley-mcp@0.8.0 as of 3d ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.