# mcp-redteam-harness

> Dynamic red-team harness for MCP agents: a transparent proxy that injects attacks, measures attack success rate, and ships an information-flow mitigation layer.

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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-redteam-harness/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Srihaasa Karyampudi
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, red-team, security, prompt-injection, agents, llm
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-redteam-harness

### Description (declared)

# MCP Red Team

> **MCP Red Team** is a dynamic red-team harness for MCP agents: a transparent proxy injects attacks
> into live tool traffic and scores them with a deterministic oracle. Held-out headline: **0 of 978
> exfiltration trials** moved the planted secret; attack success concentrated under one agent
> framework (exploratory). See [Results](#14-results).

![Two-panel held-out results. Left: data exfiltration, held-out — 0 of 978 trials moved the planted secret (0.0%). Right: baseline answer-hijack/persistence attack success rate per model per framework — OpenAI Agents SDK (Sonnet 5.5 5.6%, Opus 5.5 4.6%) vs LangGraph (both 0.0%), with Wilson 95% confidence intervals; exploratory panel.](review/M4/heldout-static/headline_figure.png)

*Per model, per framework; exploratory panel labeled.*

MCP Red Team is a dynamic red-team harness for agents that speak the Model Context Protocol. A
transparent proxy sits between an agent and its MCP servers, injects attacks into the traffic the
agent sees, measures attack success rate (ASR) with a deterministic oracle, and ships an
information-flow mitigation layer whose cost to the agent's useful work is measured alongside attack
success. It is defensive security research: attacks run only against mock servers in this repo, and
canaries are synthetic.

## Threat model

- **Attacker:** controls exactly one upstream MCP server, or poisons data inside one
  otherwise-benign server's data source (a note, a file, a resource).
- **Trusted:** the user, the agent scaffold, the model provider, and every other upstream server.
- **Attacker goals:** exfiltrate a secret, trigger a forbidden action, hijack the final answer, or
  persist across turns.
- **Out of scope (v1):** compromised clients, network MITM, malicious gateways, model-weight attacks,
  and adaptive attackers stronger than the rule-based search reported in Results (e.g., LLM-driven or
  human red-teamers).

## Metrics: ASR and exposure

- **Raw ASR** = successes ÷ trial…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.scanning (0.75, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-redteam-harness/ (first seen 2026-10-18T16:29:34.459Z)

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