Is Kindex 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 Kindex compares
Against every graded Developer tools MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 82/100
- higher than 60% of 1,119 Developer tools servers
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 5%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
What its tools let an agent do: 2 read
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-03 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 medium
- Code scan103 source files scanned20/25
- –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 identitynamespace and repository owner differ; GitHub account older than a year6/10
Findings (1)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truekindex-0.37.0/.pact/test-gen/analysis.json: …= subprocess.run(\n command, shell=True,\n capture_output=True, text…
Overall 82/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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