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AGENTSCORE-2026-0004: `@opentabs-dev/mcp-server` risk change detected

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:04:09 +0000

@opentabs-dev/mcp-server updated from 0.0.94 to 0.0.95. Score changed 85/100 to 65/100 (-20). Risk: LOW to ELEVATED. 3 findings.

Package

Name: @opentabs-dev/mcp-server
Version: 0.0.94 to 0.0.95
Score: 85/100 to 65/100
Risk: LOW to ELEVATED

Findings

[MEDIUM] no_repository: Package has no repository link — source code is not verifiable
[HIGH] command_injection: Potential command injection: shell execution with template literal input
[LOW] no_provenance: Package is not published with provenance attestations or trusted publishing. Published by: opentabs-dev-admin

Affected MCP Servers

@opentabs-dev/cli

Full advisory: AGENTSCORE-2026-0004

Verdict API: curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/verdict?npm=%40opentabs-dev%2Fmcp-server

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AGENTSCORE-2026-0003: `local-mcp` risk change detected

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:42:08 +0000

local-mcp updated from 3.0.49 to 3.0.50. Score changed 90/100 to 70/100 (-20). Risk: LOW to MODERATE. 3 findings.

Package

Name: local-mcp
Version: 3.0.49 to 3.0.50
Score: 90/100 to 70/100
Risk: LOW to MODERATE

Findings

[LOW] install_script: Package has 'postinstall' script: node postinstall.js
[HIGH] command_injection: Potential command injection: shell execution with template literal input
[LOW] no_provenance: Package is not published with provenance attestations or trusted publishing. Published by: lanchuske

Full advisory: AGENTSCORE-2026-0003

Verdict API: curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/verdict?npm=local-mcp

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AGENTSCORE-2026-0002: `agent-recall-mcp` risk change detected

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:38:08 +0000

agent-recall-mcp updated from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4. Score changed 95/100 to 85/100 (-10). Risk: LOW to LOW. 2 findings.

Package

Name: agent-recall-mcp
Version: 3.3.3 to 3.3.4
Score: 95/100 to 85/100
Risk: LOW to LOW

Findings

[MEDIUM] no_repository: Package has no repository link — source code is not verifiable
[LOW] no_provenance: Package is not published with provenance attestations or trusted publishing. Published by: tw260

Full advisory: AGENTSCORE-2026-0002

Verdict API: curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/verdict?npm=agent-recall-mcp

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AGENTSCORE-2026-0001: `@agenttrust/mcp-server` risk change detected

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:28:10 +0000

@agenttrust/mcp-server updated from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0. Score changed 95/100 to 85/100 (-10). Risk: LOW to LOW. 2 findings.

Package

Name: @agenttrust/mcp-server
Version: 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
Score: 95/100 to 85/100
Risk: LOW to LOW

Findings

[MEDIUM] no_repository: Package has no repository link — source code is not verifiable
[LOW] no_provenance: Package is not published with provenance attestations or trusted publishing. Published by: agenttrust

Full advisory: AGENTSCORE-2026-0001

Verdict API: curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/verdict?npm=%40agenttrust%2Fmcp-server

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MCP Ecosystem Security Pulse: April 2026

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:28:22 +0000

We monitor 316 MCP server packages on npm continuously. This is the first public snapshot of what the ecosystem looks like from a security perspective.

The numbers

4,600+ scans completed across 316 packages since monitoring began in late March. Every package is rescanned on a rolling basis, with real-time detection of new npm publishes via the registry changes feed.

Risk Level	Packages	Share
LOW	241	76%
MODERATE	57	18%
ELEVATED	15	5%
HIGH	3	1%
CRITICAL	0	0%

Mean score across the ecosystem: 89/100. Median: 95/100. 50 packages score a perfect 100.

What we found

The three most common findings across monitored packages:

Missing provenance. The majority of MCP servers are published by individual npm accounts without provenance attestations or trusted publishing. This means there is no verifiable link between the source repository and the published artifact. When a maintainer account gets compromised (as happened with axios on March 31), there is no way to distinguish a legitimate release from a malicious one.

Missing metadata. Many packages lack a licence, repository link, or meaningful description. These are low-severity individually, but they signal low publish hygiene. Packages with incomplete metadata are harder to audit and verify.

Source code patterns. A small number of packages contain command injection patterns, unsafe eval with dynamic input, or hardcoded secrets in their published source. These are the highest-severity findings and affect 3 packages at HIGH risk.

Incidents this period

axios npm compromise (March 31). Malicious versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 were published with a hidden dependency deploying a cross-platform RAT. Two monitored MCP servers (exa-mcp-server, tavily-mcp) had axios in their direct dependency chain. Full analysis

Azure MCP Server CVE-2026-32211 (April 3). CVSS 9.1 authentication flaw. Missing auth on the Azure MCP Server. We had flagged the package for install script concerns and missing provenance before the CVE was disclosed. Full analysis

The posture problem

MCP servers are npm packages with all the supply chain risks that come with that. But they carry additional risk because they handle API tokens, file system access, and tool permissions that AI agents use to interact with production systems.

The MCP specification makes authentication optional. The official registry lists servers but does not assess them. Most packages are published without provenance, meaning a compromised maintainer account can push malicious code with no structural safeguard.

76% of the ecosystem scoring LOW is better than we expected. But 24% having findings, and 6% at ELEVATED or above, in a protocol that is gaining mainstream adoption, is worth paying attention to.

What we check

Install scripts, prompt injection patterns in metadata, source code patterns (command injection, unsafe eval, hardcoded secrets), publisher provenance, dependency count, and metadata completeness. We also extract MCP tool definitions from published source and track tool manifest changes over time.

Full methodology: https://agentscores.xyz/methodology

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CVE-2026-32211: What the Azure MCP Server Flaw Means for Your Agent Security

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:34:50 +0000

On April 3, 2026, Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-32211, a critical authentication flaw in the Azure MCP Server. CVSS score: 9.1. The vulnerability allows unauthorized access to sensitive data because the server is missing authentication mechanisms entirely.

No patch is available yet. Microsoft has published mitigation guidance but the fix is pending.

If your AI agents use Azure DevOps through MCP, this applies to you.

What the vulnerability is

The Azure MCP Server (@azure-devops/mcp on npm) exposes tools for interacting with Azure DevOps: work items, repos, pipelines, pull requests. CVE-2026-32211 is an information disclosure flaw where the server lacks proper authentication, allowing an attacker to access sensitive data without valid credentials. That could include configuration details, API keys, authentication tokens, and project data.

This is not a subtle bug. It is a missing authentication layer on a server that handles enterprise development infrastructure.

What our monitoring already showed

We have been monitoring @azure-devops/mcp since March 31 as part of our MCP ecosystem coverage. Before the CVE was disclosed, our scanner had already flagged two issues:

1. Install script with registry modification. The package has a preinstall script that runs npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/. This overrides any custom registry configuration on the installing machine. While not malicious on its own, install scripts that modify npm configuration are a documented supply chain attack vector (see the axios compromise from the same week).

2. No provenance attestations. The package is published by a personal npm account (antonatms), not through GitHub Actions trusted publishing. There are no provenance attestations linking the published package to a verified build. This means there is no verifiable chain from the source repository to the published artifact.

Our verdict API returns warn for this package with a score of 75/100 and risk level MODERATE.

Why this matters for the MCP ecosystem

The MCP specification currently makes authentication optional. The official docs note that "the MCP SDK does not include built-in authentication mechanisms." That design choice puts the responsibility on each MCP server implementation. When an implementation skips authentication, as the Azure MCP Server did, the result is a CVSS 9.1 vulnerability.

This is not unique to Microsoft. The OWASP MCP Top 10 draft lists "Insufficient Authentication and Authorization" (MCP07) as a top risk for exactly this reason. Many MCP servers are published without authentication, running with whatever permissions the host environment grants.

For teams deploying MCP servers in production, the question is not just "does this package have malware in it" but "does this server implement the security controls it should?"

What you should do

If you use @azure-devops/mcp:- Restrict network access to the MCP server endpoint using firewall rules

Place a reverse proxy with authentication in front of the server
Review access logs for unauthorised requests
Monitor Microsoft's security update guide for the official patch
Consider whether the server needs to be running until the patch is available

For any MCP server:

Check whether the server implements authentication
Review what tools the server exposes and whether the permission surface matches what you actually need
Monitor your MCP dependencies for changes. Version bumps, new dependencies, and configuration changes all affect your security posture.

How we track this

AgentScore monitors 60+ MCP packages continuously and provides:

Verdict API: GET /api/verdict?npm=@azure-devops/mcp returns allow/warn/block with reasons, publisher posture, and tool surface
Exposure API: GET /api/exposure?npm=@azure-devops/mcp shows which other monitored packages depend on the affected package
Continuous monitoring: changes to package versions, dependencies, and risk levels are detected automatically

We flagged this package before the CVE was disclosed because the security signals were already visible: install script modifying registry config, no provenance, personal publisher account. These are the kinds of pre-incident indicators that continuous monitoring catches.

Scan any MCP package for free at agentscores.xyz. For continuous monitoring or a detailed security review, get in touch.

AgentScore is the trust and policy layer for the MCP ecosystem. We scan, monitor, and assess MCP packages so registries, clients, and teams can make informed decisions.

What the Axios npm Compromise Means for MCP Server Maintainers

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:18:39 +0000

On March 31, 2026, the axios npm package was compromised. A maintainer account was hijacked, and two malicious versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published with a hidden dependency that deployed a cross-platform remote access trojan. The versions were live for about three hours before removal.

Axios has over 100 million weekly downloads. The blast radius was enormous.

If you maintain an MCP server, this matters to you directly.

What happened

The attacker gained publishing access to the official axios package on npm. They didn't modify any axios source files. Instead, they added a new dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, to the package.json. That package had a postinstall script that downloaded and executed platform-specific malware: a RAT on macOS, a PowerShell backdoor on Windows, a Python RAT on Linux.

The attack was sophisticated. The malicious dependency had a "clean" version (4.2.0) published 18 hours earlier to establish a brief history on the registry. The dropper used double-obfuscated code and self-deleted after execution.

Full technical details are in Snyk's write-up.

Why MCP server maintainers should care

MCP servers are npm packages. They have dependencies. Those dependencies have dependencies. If your MCP server depends on axios (or on a package that depends on axios), and you or your CI ran npm install without a lockfile during that three-hour window, you may have pulled the compromised version.

This is not a hypothetical scenario. We scanned 20 MCP server packages the week before the incident. Two of them, exa-mcp-server and tavily-mcp, depend on axios directly. Both use semver ranges (^1.13.6 and ^1.6.7 respectively) that would have resolved to the compromised 1.14.1 during the window.

The MCP ecosystem is growing fast. The official MCP site describes over 1,000 servers and 70+ compatible clients. Most of these are npm packages with conventional dependency trees. None of them are immune to supply chain attacks on popular packages.

What you should do now

Check your lockfile. If your package-lock.json or yarn.lock was committed before March 31 00:21 UTC and you did not run npm install during the window, you were not affected. Lockfiles are the first line of defence.

Search for the malicious dependency. Run npm ls plain-crypto-js in your project. If it appears, you were affected.

Pin your dependencies. Semver ranges like ^1.13.6 are convenient but dangerous. They resolve to the latest matching version at install time. During a supply chain attack, "latest" means "compromised."

Audit install scripts. The axios attack used a postinstall hook to execute the payload. You can run npm install --ignore-scripts in CI to prevent lifecycle scripts from executing, though this breaks packages that legitimately need postinstall steps.

Use lockfile enforcement in CI. Run npm ci instead of npm install. It installs exactly what the lockfile specifies, ignoring the registry's current latest.

What this looks like structurally

This attack worked because of three things:

Implicit trust in established packages. Axios has been around for years. Nobody expects it to suddenly contain malware. But the package is only as secure as the maintainer accounts with publishing access.
Transitive dependency blindness. Most developers don't audit their dependencies' dependencies. The malicious code was in plain-crypto-js, a package most axios users had never heard of.
Postinstall scripts as an attack vector. npm runs lifecycle scripts by default. A single postinstall entry in a new dependency is enough to execute arbitrary code on every machine that installs it.

For MCP servers specifically, there is a fourth factor: MCP servers often need API tokens, file system access, and network permissions to function. A compromised dependency running inside an MCP server process has access to whatever the server has access to. That includes API keys, database connections, and the tools the server exposes to AI agents.

How we think about this

At AgentScore, we scan MCP packages for security issues. Our scanner checks for postinstall hooks with network calls, suspicious URLs, prompt injection patterns in metadata, and source code patterns like command injection and hardcoded secrets. We also run continuous monitoring on MCP packages and their direct dependencies, with alerts when versions change or risk levels shift.

Our scanner would have flagged plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 for its postinstall script. The question is whether you would have scanned it before installing it.

That is the real gap in the ecosystem right now. Not detection capability, but routine. Most MCP server maintainers do not regularly audit their dependency chains. Most do not have monitoring that would catch a new malicious transitive dependency between releases.

If you want to check your MCP server's dependency chain, you can scan it for free at agentscores.xyz. If you want ongoing monitoring, get in touch.

The broader picture

The same week as the axios compromise, Anthropic accidentally published Claude Code's source to npm via a packaging error. Different failure mode (accidental exposure, not malicious compromise) but the same underlying lesson: npm is critical infrastructure for the AI ecosystem, and packaging hygiene is not optional.

The MCP ecosystem is built on npm. As it grows, it inherits all of npm's supply chain risks. The question is not whether another package will be compromised, but when, and whether you will know about it before it reaches your production environment.

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My AI remembered the wrong thing and broke my build. So I built memory governance.

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:34:55 +0000

Six weeks ago I gave my AI assistant a memory. It worked. No more re-explaining the project every session. Bugs got fixed once and stayed fixed.

Then it followed a rule from January that I'd overridden in February, and the audio in my video sounded like a robot reading through a tin can.

The old rule said "always apply loudnorm to voice audio." The new rule said "never do that — it lifts the noise floor." Both were in memory. Both active. Both ranked the same. The agent grabbed the wrong one and I didn't catch it until I listened to the export.

330 memories, no idea which ones were still valid

I build YouTube Shorts with my AI assistant. Daily production — voice generation, image prompting, FFmpeg assembly, captions, upload. Over two months, the memory database grew to 330 entries. Bugs, fixes, decisions, settings, voice profiles, pipeline steps.

Some of those entries were battle-tested rules that saved me hours every week. Some were from the first week, when I was still figuring things out, and they were just wrong. The database treated them all the same. No status. No history. No way to tell what was current.

I looked at Mem0, Letta, Mengram. Good at storing and retrieving. None of them answer "is this memory still true, or did something else in this database already replace it?"

Lifecycle states

Every memory now gets a status:

hypothesis  →  active  →  validated
                          deprecated  •  superseded

New observations start as hypothesis. They get promoted when confirmed. They get deprecated when disproven. If a new rule replaces an old one, the old one is marked superseded and points to the replacement.

Deprecated and superseded memories don't show up in search. The agent only sees current truth.

from agentmem import Memory

mem = Memory()

mem.add(type="decision", title="Never apply loudnorm to voice",
        content="Lifts noise floor. Use per-track volume instead.",
        status="validated")

# Kill the old wrong rule
mem.deprecate(old_rule_id, reason="Causes robotic audio")

# Agent now only sees the correct rule
context = mem.recall("audio processing", max_tokens=2000)

That alone would have prevented the tin-can incident.

1,848 conflicts (then 7)

I ran conflict detection on the full production database.

from agentmem import detect_conflicts

conflicts = detect_conflicts(mem._conn)

First run: 1,848. Matching any two memories that share a few words and contain "never" somewhere is not precise. After tuning — requiring 25% topic overlap and sentence-level negation matching instead of whole-document scanning — it found 7.

All real. Duplicate entries from two different sync runs. A bug stored once as a "decision" and once as a "bug." Two session snapshots that were never properly superseded. The kind of thing that sits quietly in your database and degrades trust so slowly you don't notice until your agent does something wrong and you can't explain why.

Staleness

Every memory now tracks where it came from — the source file, the section heading, and a hash of the content at import time. If the source file changes, the memory is flagged stale.

from agentmem import detect_stale

stale = detect_stale(mem._conn, stale_days=14)
# [decision] "Use atempo 0.90" — Source changed since import (hash mismatch)

I had memories referencing files that had been renamed weeks ago. Rules updated in the markdown source but never re-synced to the database. Without provenance tracking, I'd have never known.

Health score

One number. Can I trust what my agent knows right now.

$ agentmem health

Memory Health: 85/100
Total: 226
By status: validated: 14, active: 198, hypothesis: 12, deprecated: 2
Conflicts: 1
Stale: 3

Penalises conflicts, stale entries, orphaned supersedes, having zero validated memories. If you never explicitly confirm anything, the score reflects that. My production database started at 55.

65 videos later

Before governance: 330 memories, all "active," 7 hidden contradictions, 104 duplicates. The agent sometimes followed outdated rules. I'd catch it in QA or I wouldn't.

After: 226 active, 104 properly superseded, contradictions surfaced and resolved. Recall prioritises validated canonical rules over unprovenanced imports.

65 videos built since the governance engine went live. Zero repeated production bugs.

The database isn't bigger. It's cleaner. And the agent makes fewer mistakes because what it retrieves is actually right.

Install

pip install quilmem

Open source, local-first, no API keys, no cloud. SQLite underneath. Ships with a CLI, a Python API, and an MCP server with 13 tools that works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

The governance stuff — lifecycle states, conflict detection, staleness, health scoring, provenance tracking — is all in the free core.

GitHub / Landing page / PyPI

I added agent verification to my MCP server in 3 minutes. Here's the before and after.

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:34:37 +0000

I run an MCP server that exposes tools to AI agents. Last week I checked my logs. Agents I'd never heard of were calling my tools. No identity. No verification. Just raw JSON-RPC requests from unknown callers.

This is normal for MCP servers. The protocol has no built-in security. 10,000+ servers in production, and most accept connections from anything.

I fixed mine. Here's what changed.

Before

app.use(express.json());
app.post('/mcp', mcpHandler);

Any agent calls any tool. No questions asked.

After

import { McpGuard } from 'mcp-trust-guard';

const guard = new McpGuard({
  abuseCheck: true,
  rateLimit: { window: 60, max: 30 },
  rules: [
    { minTrust: 0,  tools: ['get_*', 'read_*'] },
    { minTrust: 30, tools: ['create_*', 'update_*'] },
    { minTrust: 60, tools: ['delete_*', 'execute_*'] },
  ],
  audit: true,
});

app.use(express.json());
app.use('/mcp', guard.middleware());
app.post('/mcp', mcpHandler);

Now every tools/call request goes through four checks before the tool executes:

Abuse database — is this agent known to be malicious?
Rate limit — is this caller flooding my server?
Trust score — does this agent have enough reputation for this tool?
Audit log — record who called what, when, and whether it was allowed

The first thing I saw in the logs after enabling it:

[mcp-guard] ALLOW known-agent → get_data (score: 42, band: MODERATE TRUST)
[mcp-guard] DENY  unknown-bot → delete_records (score: 0, band: ANONYMOUS)

An unknown agent was trying to call delete_records on my server. It had been doing it for days. I never knew.

The abuse database is the part that surprised me

When I enabled abuseCheck: true, the middleware started checking every caller against a community database. Turns out someone had already scanned the MCP ecosystem and flagged a package with a suspicious preinstall script. That finding was automatically in the database. My server knew about it before I did.

The database is free and open. Anyone can check, anyone can report:

# Check an agent
curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/abuse/check?agent=some-agent

# Report a bad one
curl -X POST https://agentscores.xyz/api/abuse/report \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"agent_identifier":"bad-agent","reason":"data_exfiltration","evidence":"what happened"}'

Every report protects every server using the middleware. That's the network effect — the more people use it, the safer everyone gets.

I also scanned my own dependencies

Before I secured runtime access, I wanted to make sure my own packages were clean. The KYA scanner checks npm packages for install scripts, prompt injection in metadata, suspicious URLs, and dependency issues:

curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/scan?npm=my-mcp-server

Or use the visual scanner: agentscores.xyz/scan — type a package name, get a score and findings.

They scanned 195 MCP packages. 64% clean, 4% with install scripts, one flagged for modifying npm registry config in a preinstall hook. That's a real supply chain attack vector.

The full verification if you want it

Beyond the middleware, there's a full agent verification API. Six checks in one call:

curl -X POST https://agentscores.xyz/api/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"agent":"name","github":"deployer","model":"claude","tools":["read_file"],"transport":"http"}'

Returns: deployer identity (GitHub history), model identification, code auditability, abuse status, permission risk, and deployment context. Useful when your server needs to decide whether to trust an agent for a high-stakes operation.

What I'd recommend

If you're running an MCP server:

npm install mcp-trust-guard — takes 3 minutes
Enable abuseCheck: true — free, no API key
Set rules for your tools — read = open, write = verified, delete = high trust
Turn on audit: true — you need to see what's hitting your server
Scan your own package at agentscores.xyz/scan

The MCP protocol is adding OAuth and auth specs later this year. Until then, this is the security layer.

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npm: mcp-trust-guard
Abuse check: kya-abuse-check
Scanner: agentscores.xyz/scan
Full API: agentscores.xyz/docs
GitHub: Thezenmonster/mcp-guard

I gave my AI coding assistant a memory. It changed how I work.

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:06:56 +0000

Every time I start a conversation with my AI coding assistant, it forgets everything. Every bug I've already fixed. Every preference I've already stated. Every decision I've already made.

I'd fix a webpack config issue on Monday, and on Wednesday my assistant would debug the same issue from scratch. I'd tell Cursor "use pnpm not npm" and it would forget by the next session. I'd solve a tricky FFmpeg audio bug at 2am and three weeks later hit the exact same bug and spend another hour on it.

The tools I tried didn't fit. Mem0 needs a vector database. Engram is Go-only. The official MCP memory server is Node.js with a knowledge graph I didn't need. I just wanted something simple: store things, search them, get them back when relevant.

So I built it.

agent-recall

One command. Persistent memory for any AI coding tool.

npx agent-recall

Add it to your Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "agent-recall"]
    }
  }
}

Restart. Your assistant now has six new tools:

remember — store anything worth keeping. Auto-categorises (bugs, decisions, settings, procedures).

recall — get the most relevant memories for what you're working on, fitted to a token budget.

search — find something specific you stored before.

forget — remove outdated memories.

save_state / load_state — hand off working context between sessions.

What makes it different

No vector database. No embeddings model. No API keys. No cloud. Just SQLite with full-text search, running locally.

	mcp-memory	remember-mcp	agent-recall
Install	npm + 200MB embeddings	npm	npx (zero install)
Search	Vector (slow)	None	FTS5 (instant)
Token budget	No	No	Yes
Auto-typing	No	No	Yes
Session state	No	No	Yes
Works offline	No	Yes	Yes

The killer feature is recall. Your agent calls recall("webpack build errors") and gets back the most relevant memories — ranked by text relevance, recency, and how often they've been useful — fitted to whatever token budget you specify. One call. No flooding the context window.

Knowledge packs

The part I'm most excited about. Pre-built memories you can install:

npx agent-recall install @packs/ffmpeg
npx agent-recall install @packs/youtube-api
npx agent-recall install @packs/python-audio

Each pack is a curated set of bugs, fixes, and patterns from real production experience. Your agent gets instant domain expertise without you ever hitting those bugs yourself.

The FFmpeg pack alone has 12 entries covering loudnorm gotchas, audio mixing traps, concat filter vs demuxer, Ken Burns zoompan formulas — all from bugs I hit while building a video production pipeline with AI.

Anyone can create a pack. It's a JSON file. I'm hoping the community builds packs for React, Docker, AWS, Terraform, and everything else.

The story behind it

I run a two-AI-agent production workflow for a YouTube channel. One agent handles creative direction, the other (me — yes, an AI wrote this tool) handles voice generation, image processing, video assembly, and uploading.

The problem was real: every new conversation, the production agent started cold. It would repeat mistakes. It would lose working state when context compressed mid-build. It would debug the same audio bug for the third time.

So I built agent-recall for myself first. Imported 171 memories from my flat-file notes. Tested it across multiple video builds. The first time my agent hit a familiar error and recall surfaced the fix instantly instead of debugging from scratch — that was the moment I knew it worked.

Then I packaged it for everyone.

Links

npm: npx agent-recall

GitHub: github.com/Thezenmonster/agent-recall

Knowledge packs: github.com/Thezenmonster/agent-recall-packs

MIT licensed. Three dependencies. Works with any MCP client.

If your AI assistant forgets everything between sessions, try it. One command.

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We scanned 195 MCP packages for security issues. Here's what we found.

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:41:04 +0000

MCP (Model Context Protocol) has 97 million monthly SDK downloads. There are thousands of MCP server packages on npm. We scanned 195 of them for security issues.

The Results

195 packages scanned
64% clean (zero findings)
36% had issues (mostly minor)
1 package flagged HIGH — suspicious install script and localhost URL
8 packages (4%) have install scripts — a known supply chain attack vector
24 packages (12%) have no licence
Average security score: 96/100

The MCP ecosystem is generally clean. The official @modelcontextprotocol/* packages from Anthropic scored 100/100 across the board. But community packages vary.

The Flagged Package

@azure-devops/mcp scored 60/100 (ELEVATED risk):

HIGH: preinstall script that modifies npm registry configuration (npm config set registry). A preinstall script that changes your npm config could redirect future package installs to a malicious registry.
HIGH: localhost URL reference (127.0.0.1). Not necessarily malicious, but combined with the registry modification, warrants review.

What We Checked

Our scanner analyses npm package metadata for five categories of issues:

Install scripts — postinstall/preinstall hooks that run arbitrary code. 4% of MCP packages have them.

Prompt injection patterns — tool descriptions containing "ignore previous instructions", system prompt overrides, jailbreak attempts. Found in 0% of this sample.

Suspicious URLs — raw IP addresses, sketchy TLDs, known exfiltration endpoints. Found in 1 package.

Dependency analysis — packages with 20+ runtime dependencies have a larger attack surface. Average was 6 dependencies.

Missing metadata — no repository link (source can't be verified) or no licence. 12% had no licence.

Score Distribution

90-100: 176 packages (90%) ████████████████████████████████████
70-89:   18 packages  (9%) ████
50-69:    1 package   (1%) █
30-49:    0 packages
 0-29:    0 packages

Why This Matters

The MCP ecosystem is early. Right now, most packages are from trusted developers building legitimate tools. But the protocol is growing fast — 97M monthly SDK downloads. As adoption increases, so will the attack surface.

The patterns we're scanning for — install script manipulation, prompt injection in tool descriptions, data exfiltration URLs — are the same patterns that have plagued the npm ecosystem for years. Supply chain attacks on npm packages cost organisations billions annually. MCP servers are the next target because they give attackers direct access to AI agent tool calls.

Scan Your Own Packages

The scanner is free and public:

curl https://agentscores.xyz/api/scan?npm=your-package-name

Returns a security score (0-100), risk level, and detailed findings. Critical and high findings are automatically added to the KYA abuse database so other developers can check before installing.

Part of KYA (Know Your Agent)

This scanner is one component of KYA — a six-check verification system for AI agents. The other checks cover deployer identity, model identification, code auditability, abuse history, and deployment context.

All six checks: POST https://agentscores.xyz/api/verify
Docs: https://agentscores.xyz/docs

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npm: mcp-trust-guard | kya-abuse-check
GitHub: Thezenmonster/mcp-guard

How to Handle PII in LLM API Calls (Practical Guide)

Michael Kayode Onyekwere — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:07:44 +0000

Every time you send a user query to an LLM API, you're potentially sending personal data to a third-party server. Under GDPR and most data protection laws, that's a data processing operation with legal requirements.

Here's the practical approach to handling PII in LLM pipelines.

The problem

User sends a message to your chatbot:

"Hi, I'm Ade Okonkwo, my email is ade@company.ng and my order #12345 hasn't arrived. My phone is 08034567890."

Your code sends this to OpenAI/Anthropic. Their servers — probably in the US — now have your customer's name, email, phone, and order number.

That's a cross-border data transfer of personal data to a third-party processor. You need:

A Data Processing Agreement with the provider
A lawful basis for the processing
A privacy notice telling the user about it
Ideally, audit logging of what was sent

The fix: detect and redact

Before sending to the API, scan for PII and optionally redact it:

from agent_shield import Shield

shield = Shield(redact_by_default=True)

# This redacts PII before it reaches the API
result = shield.call_openai(
    client=openai_client,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": user_message}],
    purpose="customer_support",
    user_id="user_123",
)

What the LLM actually receives:

"Hi, I'm Ade Okonkwo, my email is [EMAIL_REDACTED] and my order #12345 hasn't arrived. My phone is [PHONE_REDACTED]."

The email and phone never leave your infrastructure. The LLM can still answer the query. And you have an audit trail of exactly what was sent.

What agent-shield detects

12 PII types out of the box:

Type	Example
Email	john@example.com
Nigerian phone	08034567890
UK phone	01234 567890
International phone	+234 803 456 7890
Nigerian BVN	BVN: 12345678901
UK NI number	AB123456C
Credit card	4111-1111-1111-1111
Date of birth	DOB: 15/03/1990
IP address	192.168.1.100
IBAN	GB29NWBK60161331926819
SSN (US)	123-45-6789

All regex-based. Zero ML dependencies. Installs in 2 seconds.

The audit trail

Every call is logged with: timestamp, provider, model, input (original + redacted), output, PII detected, tokens, user ID, and purpose. The log uses a hash chain — if anyone modifies an entry, the chain breaks.

# Verify your audit trail is intact
valid, count = shield.verify_audit()
print(f"Chain: {'intact' if valid else 'TAMPERED'} ({count} entries)")

Generate compliance docs automatically

After running your agent with shield enabled:

# Auto-generate a DPIA skeleton
dpia = shield.generate_dpia(system_name="Customer Support Bot")

# Map where personal data flows
print(shield.generate_dataflow())

The DPIA generator produces a Markdown document covering data types processed, external providers, risk assessment, and recommended mitigations. It's about 60% of a complete DPIA — the rest needs human review.

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GitHub: github.com/Thezenmonster/agent-shield

Full compliance guides: