Is BACH FileCommander 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 BACH FileCommander compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 75/100
- higher than 45% of 3,472 Web search servers
- Tools that change things
- 20%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
What its tools let an agent do: 35 read · 9 change
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-09-28 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high
- Code scan11 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 5 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year9/10
Findings (1)
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
exec.shell-concatdist/index.js: … try { const result = execSync(`which ${cmd}`, { encoding: 'utf-8' }).trim(); …
Overall 75/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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