# mcp-firewall

> The open-source security gateway for AI agents. Policy enforcement, threat detection, and compliance-ready audit logging for MCP.

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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/mcp-firewall/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/ressl/mcp-firewall/tree/main/docs
- repository: https://github.com/ressl/mcp-firewall/tree/main/docs
- version: 0.1.0
- license: AGPL-3.0-or-later
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, security, firewall, ai-agents, gateway, compliance, dora, audit, policy, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-firewall

### Description (declared)

# 🛡️ mcp-firewall

**The open-source security gateway for AI agents.**

mcp-firewall sits between your MCP client and server, intercepting every tool call with enterprise-grade policy enforcement, real-time threat detection, and compliance-ready audit logging.

```
AI Agent ←→ mcp-firewall ←→ MCP Server
               ↕
         Policy Engine
         Audit Trail
         Threat Feed
```

## Why

AI agents can now execute tools — read files, run commands, query databases, make HTTP requests. Without guardrails, a single prompt injection can exfiltrate your credentials, execute arbitrary code, and chain tools for privilege escalation.

mcp-firewall is the WAF for AI agents.

## Quick Start

```bash
pip install mcp-firewall

# Wrap any MCP server with zero config
mcp-firewall wrap -- npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /tmp

# Generate a starter policy
mcp-firewall init
```

## Features

### 🔒 Defense-in-Depth Pipeline
Every tool call passes through 8 inbound + 4 outbound security checks:

**Inbound** (request screening):
1. Kill Switch — Emergency deny-all
2. Agent Identity — RBAC per AI agent
3. Rate Limiter — Per-agent, per-tool, global
4. Injection Detector — 50+ patterns
5. Egress Control — Block SSRF, private IPs, cloud metadata
6. Policy Engine — OPA/Rego + YAML policies
7. Chain Detector — Dangerous tool sequences
8. Human Approval — Optional interactive prompt

**Outbound** (response scanning):
1. Secret Scanner — API keys, tokens, private keys
2. PII Detector — Email, phone, SSN, IBAN, credit cards
3. Exfil Detector — Embedded URLs, base64, DNS tunneling
4. Content Policy — Custom domain-specific rules

### 📋 Policy-as-Code

Simple YAML for common rules:
```yaml
agents:
  claude-desktop:
    allow: [read_file, search]
    deny: [exec, shell, rm]
    rate_limit: 100/min

rules:
  - name: block-credentials
    match: { arguments: { path: "**/.ssh/**" } }
    action: deny
```

Full OPA/Rego for complex policies:
```rego
package mcp-firewall.policy

…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.filesystem (1, derived)
- dev.terminal (1, derived)
- security.scanning (0.859, derived)
- data.database (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-firewall/ (first seen 2026-09-10T01:20:51.662Z)

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