Is Perplexity Agent MCP server safe?
Yes, with the usual care.
Safe to use. Minor gaps such as a missing repository or slower maintenance.
No critical or high findings in the latest scan.
How Perplexity Agent compares
Against every graded AI and agents MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 75/100
- higher than 45% of 4,464 AI and agents servers
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-24 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 medium
- Code scan2 source files scanned20/25
- –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 0 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (1)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-trueperplexity_agent_mcp-0.4.0/pyproject.toml: …([sys.executable, str(SERVER)]) — never shell=True, never # attacker-controlled input. Ban…
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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