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Is Openlex MCP server safe?

Yes, with the usual care.

B77/100grade B

Safe to use. Minor gaps such as a missing repository or slower maintenance.

No critical or high findings in the latest scan.

How Openlex compares

Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
77/100
higher than 55% of 3,471 Web search servers
Tools that change things
13%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break

What its tools let an agent do: 8 create

Release history: 2 versions in the registry since 2026-08-02, latest 2026-09-27, typically one every 56 days.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-11-05 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

2 medium
  • Code scan22 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 4 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10

Findings (2)

  • mediumsubprocess with shell=Trueexec.shell-true
    openlex_mcp-0.3.0/audits/2026-05-29T052144-Z-openlex-mcp/verification-results.json: … [ "No os.system / subprocess / shell=True / eval / exec / os.popen anywhere in sr…
  • mediumeval / new Function usedexec.eval
    openlex_mcp-0.3.0/audits/2026-05-29T112502-Z-openlex-mcp/verification-results.json: … [ "No os.system(), shell=True, eval(), exec(), or os.popen() found in src/ (…
Overall 77/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

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