Is Wellknown 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
- highWrite-action tools reachable without authentication
How Wellknown compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 83/100
- higher than 70% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Tools that change things
- 11%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
What its tools let an agent do: 8 read · 1 change
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-15 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high
- Code scan2 source files scanned25/25
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 1158ms20/20
- Tool poisoning9 tool descriptions checked15/15
- Auth qualityopen endpoint exposes 1 write-action tools with no auth3/15
- Maintenancelast push 36 days ago12/15
- Maintainer identityendpoint served from the registry-verified namespace domain8/10
Findings (1)
- highWrite-action tools reachable without authentication
auth.open-write
Overall 83/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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