# mcp-server-audit

> Audit MCP servers for install-time issues before you install them.

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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-server-audit/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/Yveshby27/mcp-server-audit
- repository: https://github.com/Yveshby27/mcp-server-audit
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT License
        
        Copyright (c) 2026 Yves Habchi
   …
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-agents, audit, cli, mcp, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-server-audit

### Description (declared)

# mcp-audit

Audit MCP servers for install-time issues before you install them.

`mcp-audit` is a CLI utility that runs a set of install-time validation checks
against any [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server,
so you can see the problems before you wire the server into your agent config
and lose an afternoon debugging silent failures.

**Status:** v0.1 alpha. Install-time validation only. Security-boundary check
lands in v0.2, runtime spec-compliance in v0.3. See "Roadmap" below.

## The problem

MCP is a fast-growing ecosystem - thousands of servers exist across public
directories, community registries, and internal deployments. Quality varies
wildly. If you have installed more than a handful, you have hit one of:

- Manifest / init response missing required fields; agent client refuses to load.
- Server declares tools in its `capabilities` but `tools/list` returns method-not-found.
- Tool `inputSchema` is not valid JSON Schema; agents pass malformed args and the tool crashes at call time.
- Server hangs on `initialize`; agent times out silently and the tool disappears from your session.

`mcp-audit` runs 4 checks in about a second and tells you which of these the
server has before you install it.

## Install

```bash
pip install mcp-server-audit
```

Requires Python 3.10+.

The PyPI package name is `mcp-server-audit`; the CLI command is `mcp-audit`.

## Use

```bash
mcp-audit "python -m my_mcp_server"
mcp-audit "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /tmp"
mcp-audit "uvx some-mcp-server" --json
mcp-audit "node build/index.js" --timeout 60 --verbose
```

The single positional argument is the shell-style command that spawns the MCP
server over stdio. `mcp-audit` will launch the subprocess, run the handshake,
probe `tools/list` / `resources/list` / `prompts/list`, run its 4 checks, and
close the server cleanly.

Default timeout is 30 seconds per request. For `npx -y` cold-cache first runs
(which can take 20-60s to download + start…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.filesystem (0.882, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-server-audit/ (first seen 2026-09-10T03:19:58.492Z)

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