Is Computer Use MCP server safe?
Yes, with the usual care.
Safe to use. Minor gaps such as a missing repository or slower maintenance.
What to know before installing
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
How Computer Use compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 74/100
- higher than 40% of 48,243 servers
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
What its tools let an agent do: 1 read
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-27 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high
- Code scan13 source files scanned13/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 18 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (1)
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
exec.shell-concatdist/main.js: …leURLToPath(import.meta.url))); execSync(`xattr -cr "${projectRoot}/node_modules"`, { stdio: 'i…
Overall 74/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON