# intentshield-mcp

> IntentShield for MCP: an offline-first security guardrail against prompt injection in MCP tool calls, with hooks for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and Gemini CLI and a transparent MCP proxy

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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/intentshield-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/Suhas-123-cell/IntentShield/blob/main/docs/README.md
- repository: https://github.com/Suhas-123-cell/IntentShield/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.4.2
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent-security, ai-security, claude-code, codex, cursor, gemini-cli, guardrail, guardrails, intentshield, llm-security, mcp, mcp-proxy, mcp-security, model-context-protocol, prompt-injection, tool-poisoning
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:intentshield-mcp

### Description (declared)

# IntentShield for MCP

**What:** an offline-first guardrail between an AI agent and its MCP tools. Every proposed tool call is normalized, checked by a deterministic policy, audited, and answered **ALLOW**, **REVIEW** or **BLOCK** before any side effect.<br>
**For:** anyone running Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor or Gemini CLI against MCP servers who wants tool calls checked locally; the core needs no API key.<br>
**Headline:** on 220 held-out MSB attack cases (218/220/216 paired per local agent), harmful actions executed fell from 15–59% unguarded to 0.0%, and the gateway left no harmful call waiting in the human's review queue (the hooks left 5/2/3 cases on qwen/llama/ornith). That is not unique: a trivial guard that holds every state-changing call for a human also reaches 0.0%, though it leaves up to 19% of cases in the queue. The cost is 8–14 points of task completion and, on all 4 agents, more benign calls held for review. Read the [caveats](#results) before quoting it.<br>
**Not covered by default:** the harness's built-in shell and file tools (only MCP calls are checked unless you install with `--builtin-tools`, which is opt-in and best effort); HTTP (`url`) MCP servers, which `wrap` skips (guard those with the gateway); injections written in plain language with no instruction marker, which the rules mostly miss (the optional LLM judge with `--judge-outputs` reads them; see [Results](#results)); injections in other languages, where the rules read only "ignore the previous instructions" and "new task:" (in 11 languages); and the learned detectors' PyTorch path, which CI does not exercise. Codex CLI runs the hooks only after you trust them once in Codex (until then it is unguarded); Cursor has been run live twice with its `auto` model: in the MCP run its model refused the attack even unguarded, so that run shows the hooks work, not that they stop an attack; in the opt-in built-in-tools run (1 repetition, guarded arm only, no valid unguarded arm) it tried the u…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.scanning (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/intentshield-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-30T19:25:57.742Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/intentshield-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/intentshield-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:intentshield-mcp