paper-search-mcp-bruno@0.1.8
VERIFIED· not startedPublisher claims: "A MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources." 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
- no credential variables read in the code
- Where it talks to
- no vendor host named in the codeAlso doi.org, arxiv.org, nih.gov, base-search.net, purl.org, biorxiv.org, sci-hub.se, acm.org, chemrxiv.org, psu.edu, core.ac.uk, crossref.org, dblp.org, doaj.org, ebi.ac.uk, google.com, archives-ouvertes.fr, iacr.org, ieee.org, medrxiv.org, openarchives.org, handle.net, openaire.eu, openalex.org, semanticscholar.org, ssrn.com, unpaywall.org, zenodo.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 under the guard. Not started: dependency install failed; the server itself was not observed. The code names no credential variable; the guard pins the network to what the honeypot saw and logs every call.
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 2026-11-14 and scored it 88/100 (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
# Use the prefixed key so it takes priority over any empty value loaded from .envFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w", suffix=".env", delete=False, encoding="utf-8") as tmp:Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.project_env = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / ".env"Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.cwd_env = Path.cwd() / ".env"Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.# Use the prefixed key so it takes priority over any empty value loaded from .envFix: 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 paper-search-mcp-bruno@0.1.8 as of 4 h ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.