openresearch-mcp@0.2.1
VERIFIED· not startedPublisher claims: "Zero-auth cross-domain research MCP server — web, academic, GitHub, news, weather, macro/finance, SEC, biomedical, Bluesky, YouTube, and more." 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
GITHUB_TOKENConfiguration, not credentials: MCP_HOST, MCP_PORT, MCP_TRANSPORT, OPENALEX_EMAIL, SEC_USER_AGENT, STACKEXCHANGE_KEY- Where it talks to
- no vendor host named in the codeAlso algolia.com, stackexchange.com, openalex.org, worldbank.org, frankfurter.dev, ebi.ac.uk, bsky.app, duckduckgo.com, youtube.com, ycombinator.com, coingecko.com, githubusercontent.com, gdeltproject.org, sec.gov, open-meteo.com, arxiv.org — 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 algolia.com, stackexchange.com, openalex.org, worldbank.org, frankfurter.dev, ebi.ac.uk, bsky.app, duckduckgo.com, youtube.com, ycombinator.com, coingecko.com, githubusercontent.com, gdeltproject.org, sec.gov, open-meteo.com, arxiv.org as well as its own vendor. The guard injects GITHUB_TOKEN only into requests to the host you bind (and its subdomains) and refuses the rest.
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 89/100 (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
_validate_url("file:///etc/passwd")Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.redirect = FakeResp(status=302, headers={"Location": "http://169.254.169.254/"}, is_redirect=True)Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.result = read_pdf("http://10.0.0.5/internal.pdf")Fix: Replace encoded or assembled strings with plain literals and remove undeclared network calls.result = read_url("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/")Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.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 openresearch-mcp@0.2.1 as of 15 h ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.