Is Palinode MCP server safe?
Probably. Read the findings first.
Use with care. Some checks failed or could not be verified.
How Palinode compares
Against every graded Developer tools MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 66/100
- higher than 23% 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: 3 read
Release history: 4 versions in the registry since 2026-09-15, latest 2026-10-14, typically one every 12 days.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-15 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
2 medium
- Code scan216 source files scanned; 216 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 qualitystatic API keys via environment variables6/15
- Maintenancelast push 1 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner7/10
Findings (2)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truepalinode-0.23.0/palinode/core/git_tools.py: …form is used deliberately — never ``shell=True``, never string-interpolated commands …
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truepalinode-0.23.0/palinode/core/git_tools.py: …form is used deliberately — never ``shell=True``, never string-interpolated commands …
Overall 66/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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