Is Distil MCP server safe?
Yes, with the usual care.
Safe to use. Minor gaps such as a missing repository or slower maintenance.
No critical or high findings in the latest scan.
How Distil compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 77/100
- higher than 50% of 48,255 servers
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-24 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
2 medium
- Code scan134 source files scanned15/25
- –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 0 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (2)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truedistil_llm-1.30.0/distil/cli.py: …_proxies() rc = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True).returncode if rc == 0: pri…
- mediumeval / new Function used
exec.evaldistil_llm-1.30.0/distil/codec/train_transformer.py: …}") # --- evaluation --- model.eval() tp = fp = fn = tn = 0 with tor…
Overall 77/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON