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nucleus-apple-mcp@0.3.0

VERIFIED· not started

Publisher claims: "Nucleus Apple MCP server (macOS EventKit via Swift sidecar)." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher zish-rob-crur · publishing for 291 daysInstalls 76Last detonated 27 h ago
$claude mcp add nucleus-apple-mcp -- uvx nucleus-apple-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
NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_ACCESS_KEY_IDNUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEYNUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_SESSION_TOKENConfiguration, not credentials: NUCLEUS_APPLE_MCP_CACHE_DIR, NUCLEUS_APPLE_MCP_CONFIG, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_ICLOUD_ROOT, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_BUCKET, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_ENDPOINT, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_PREFIX, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_REGION, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_USE_PATH_STYLE, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_STORAGE_BACKEND, NUCLEUS_SWIFT, NUCLEUS_SWIFTC, SWIFT, SWIFTC
Where it talks to
no vendor host named in the code
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 NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, NUCLEUS_HEALTH_S3_SESSION_TOKEN and talks to its vendor. 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.

$vet-skills run --net declared -- uvx nucleus-apple-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 90/100 (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
0.2sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

MEDIUM
Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/nucleus_apple_mcp/sidecar/builder.py:115 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run(cmd, check=True, capture_output=True, text=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
AST05
MEDIUM
Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/nucleus_apple_mcp/sidecar/client.py:19 · Python subprocess execution detectedproc = subprocess.run(Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
AST05
MEDIUM
Python subprocess execution detectedsrc/nucleus_apple_mcp/sidecar/builder.py:71 · Python subprocess execution detectedsubprocess.run(cmd, check=True, capture_output=True, text=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
AST05

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded
≈54 tok
1 file · 69 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 nucleus-apple-mcp@0.3.0 as of 27 h ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.