Skills/PyPI/ninova-mcp

ninova-mcp@0.2.0

VERIFIED· not started

Publisher claims: "Credential-based MCP server for ITU Ninova and OBS: courses, announcements, files, assignments, grades, transcript, graduation progress, course-registration planning with prerequisites and schedule-conflict checks, and hocametre instructor ratings — from Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher hikmedit · publishing for 195 daysInstalls 104Last detonated 31 h ago
$claude mcp add ninova-mcp -- uvx ninova-mcp
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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
ITU_PASSWORDNINOVA_PASSWORDConfiguration, not credentials: ITU_USERNAME, NINOVA_BASE_URL, NINOVA_DISABLE_PLAYWRIGHT_FALLBACK, NINOVA_ENV_FILE, NINOVA_PUBLIC_BASE_URL, NINOVA_REMOTE_HOST, NINOVA_REMOTE_MCP_PATH, NINOVA_REMOTE_PORT, NINOVA_STATE_DIR, NINOVA_USERNAME, NOTKUTUSU_API_URL, OBS_BASE_URL
Where it talks to
no vendor host named in the codeAlso itu.edu.tr, notkutusu.com, claude.ai, 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 itu.edu.tr, notkutusu.com, claude.ai, claude.com as well as its own vendor. The guard injects ITU_PASSWORD, NINOVA_PASSWORD only into requests to the host you bind (and its subdomains) and refuses the rest.

$vet-skills run --net declared -- uvx ninova-mcp

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 2026-11-13 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
Access to sensitive file pathstests/test_env.py:85 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesenv_path = temp_path / ".env"Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
HIGH
Access to sensitive file pathssrc/ninova_mcp/server.py:12 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesfrom .env import load_ninova_envFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
MEDIUM
Access to sensitive file pathstests/test_env.py:42 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesenv_path = temp_path / ".env"Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
MEDIUM
Access to sensitive file pathstests/test_env.py:64 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesenv_path = temp_path / ".env"Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
HIGH
Access to sensitive file pathssrc/ninova_mcp/remote.py:15 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesfrom .env import load_ninova_envFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
HIGH
Access to sensitive file pathssrc/ninova_mcp/env.py:19 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filescandidate = directory / ".env"Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
HIGH
Access to sensitive file pathssrc/ninova_mcp/obs_client.py:12 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesfrom .env import load_ninova_envFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
HIGH
Access to sensitive file pathssrc/ninova_mcp/obs.py:17 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesfrom .env import load_ninova_envFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05
HIGH
Access to sensitive file pathssrc/ninova_mcp/client.py:12 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system filesfrom .env import load_ninova_envFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST05

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded
≈110 tok
1 file · 34 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 ninova-mcp@0.2.0 as of 31 h ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.