Is Release Gate 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 Release Gate compares
Against every graded Developer tools MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 58/100
- higher than 12% 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 v0.1.9 · 2026-09-26 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high2 medium
- Code scan62 source files scanned3/25
- –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 identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (3)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truerelease_gate-0.8.4/release_gate/agent/client.py: …r handed to a shell for interpretation. shell=True would # let an eval input or a…
- mediumeval / new Function used
exec.evalrelease_gate-0.8.4/release_gate/agent_analysis.py: …EvalRunner().run()` ✘ never flag * `eval(user_input)` / `os.system(cmd)` where `c…
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
exec.shell-concatrelease_gate-0.8.4/release_gate/verify.py: … r"|\bexec\s*\([^)]*\$\{" # exec(`...${x}`) — interpolated command ) def …
Overall 58/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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