Skills/PyPI/rachio-mcp

rachio-mcp@0.1.4

VERIFIED· not started

Publisher claims: "MCP server for Rachio sprinkler controllers using the reverse-engineered mobile gRPC API" Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher randy · publishing for 212 daysInstalls 221Last detonated 14 min ago
$claude mcp add rachio-mcp -- uvx rachio-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
RACHIO_ACCESS_TOKENRACHIO_PASSWORDConfiguration, not credentials: RACHIO_EMAIL
Where it talks to
no vendor host named in the codeAlso rach.io — 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 rach.io as well as its own vendor. The guard injects RACHIO_ACCESS_TOKEN, RACHIO_PASSWORD only into requests to the host you bind (and its subdomains) and refuses the rest.

$vet-skills run --net declared -- uvx rachio-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 2026-11-15 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
0.2sprocessdependency install exit 1 ·
0.2sclaimednot started: dependency install failed (exit 1); the server itself was not observed
0.2sprocessscript backend runs setup only
0.2sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

HIGH
Hex-encoded string detectedsrc/rachio_mcp/proto/location_pb2.py:36 · Hex-encoded string detected — may contain obfuscated payloads…11\n\ttime_zone\x18\t \x01(\t\x12(\n\x1cinclude_all_weather_stations\x18\n \x01(\x08\x42\x02\x18\x01\x12\r\n\x05owner\x18\x0c \x01(\x08\x12%\n\tthreshold\x18\r \x03(\x0b\x32\x12.Locati…Fix: Put hosts, commands and strings in plain source. Decoding at runtime looks identical to malware and costs points on its own.
AST07
HIGH
Hex-encoded string detectedsrc/rachio_mcp/proto/device_service_pb2.py:52 · Hex-encoded string detected — may contain obfuscated payloads…\ncycle_soak\x18\x03 \x01(\x08\x12\x1f\n\x13\x63ycle_soak_duration\x18\x04 \x01(\x05\x42\x02\x18\x01\x12\x33\n\x0e\x63ycle_duration\x18\x05 \x01(\x0b\x32\x1b.google.protobuf.Int32Value\x12…Fix: Put hosts, commands and strings in plain source. Decoding at runtime looks identical to malware and costs points on its own.
AST07

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded
≈57 tok
1 file · 81 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

Not checked against OSV yet; the weekly check has not reached this version.