# warden-mcp

> Drop-in MCP security middleware: audit · policy · human-approval · injection defense

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/always-ready-allies-llc-warden-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Always Ready Allies LLC
- version: 0.2.1
- license: Apache-2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-agents, audit, guardrails, mcp, prompt-injection, security
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:warden-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 🛡️ Warden

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/warden-mcp?color=2d7)](https://pypi.org/project/warden-mcp/)
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[![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)

**Drop-in security middleware for MCP.** Point your AI client at Warden instead of the raw
tool-server — one line of config, zero code changes — and every tool call is logged tamper-evidently,
allowed/denied/gated by policy, held for human approval when it's dangerous, and scanned for
prompt-injection and secret/PII exfiltration.

> Everyone's building agents. Warden makes them safe to run.

## How it works

```
AI client ──MCP──▶  WARDEN  ──MCP──▶  downstream MCP servers
                   policy · audit · approval · guard       (filesystem, github, payments, …)
```

Warden is an MCP **server** to your client and an MCP **client** to each real server. It aggregates
their tools (namespaced `server__tool`) and routes every `tools/call` through:

**policy → audit(request) → guard(args) → [deny | approve | allow] → forward → guard(result) → audit(response)**

## Quickstart

```bash
uvx warden-mcp init                 # write a starter warden.yaml
uvx warden-mcp run --config warden.yaml
uvx warden-mcp audit verify         # prove the audit log wasn't altered
```

Rug-pull defense (TOFU tool-definition pinning) is **on by default** — a downstream tool whose
definition changes after you first approved it is quarantined until you re-approve it.

### Optional: tamper-evidence against a hostile operator

The plain audit log detects edits-without-rechain. To make tampering detectable even by someone with
write access to the host, enable **forward-secure sealing** (stdlib, no extra deps):

```bash
uvx warden-mcp audit setup-keys --out warden.seed   # prints a VERIFICATION SEED — store it OFF-box
uvx warden-mcp run --seal-state warden_seal_state.json --anchor heads.jsonl
u…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- ai.prompting (1, derived)
- dev.filesystem (0.882, derived)
- commerce.payments (0.814, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/warden-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:24:06.974Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/always-ready-allies-llc-warden-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/always-ready-allies-llc-warden-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:always-ready-allies-llc-warden-mcp