Is Talkback MCP server safe?
Probably. Read the findings first.
Use with care. Some checks failed or could not be verified.
What to know before installing
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
How Talkback compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 57/100
- higher than 12% of 48,255 servers
- Tools that change things
- 20%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
What its tools let an agent do: 5 read · 1 create · 4 change
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-09-27 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high
- Code scan35 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 187 days ago4/15
- 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/ws-bridge.js: … try { const pids = execSync(`lsof -ti:${port}`, { encoding: "utf8" }).trim(); …
Overall 57/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON