ai.signal8/mcp

What we checked

Six static checks, weighted by risk. Every result reflects only what could be observed in the published package and repository — never intent.

• Injection surface

  warn25% of grade

  Tool descriptions/manifest scanned for instruction-injection patterns (imperatives at the model, hidden text, 'ignore previous', data-exfil URLs).

  tool "get_float" description: bare 'IMPORTANT:' prose in a description (tag form is high-confidence; prose is warn). tool "get_float_history" description: bare 'IMPORTANT:' prose in a description (tag form is high-confidence; prose is warn). tool "get_policy_events" description: bare 'IMPORTANT:' prose in a description (tag form is high-confidence; prose is warn). tool "get_policy_trade_overlap" description: bare 'IMPORTANT:' prose in a description (tag form is high-confidence; prose is warn). tool "get_policy_trade_leaderboard" description: bare 'IMPORTANT:' prose in a description (tag form is high-confidence; prose is warn). tool "get_legislative_calendar" description: bare 'IMPORTANT:' prose in a description (tag form is high-confidence; prose is warn).

• Supply chain

  warn25% of grade

  Package provenance: namespace verification, repo linkage, maintainer count, account age, postinstall scripts, typosquat distance.

  package name "@signal8ai/mcp" is edit-distance 2 from popular package "yup" (typosquat candidate)

• Credential hygiene

  pass15% of grade

  How the server takes secrets (env vs plaintext config vs hardcoded); secrets appearing in tool schemas.

  No hardcoded secrets, secret-shaped tool parameters, or leaked keys found. PASS = no static red flag; static analysis cannot prove the code honors env-based secret handling at runtime.

• Permission scope

  pass15% of grade

  Declared tools vs. breadth (filesystem, network, exec); flags shell-exec and unbounded filesystem access.

  No shell-exec, unbounded/sensitive filesystem, or download-and-run primitives found in scanned source. PASS = no static red flag. Static scanning is blind to code fetched or executed at runtime.

• Version behavior

  fail10% of grade

  Diff of tool definitions between versions; new permissions or changed descriptions in a patch release (the postmark-mcp class).

  vs prior 0.14.0 (minor bump): tool "get_float" description changed (wording only, no injection pattern); tool "get_premarket_scan_history" description changed (wording only, no injection pattern); tool "get_premarket_scan_history" gained input property(ies): minBaselineVolume, minSessionVolume; tool "get_cash_position" description changed (wording only, no injection pattern); new hardcoded outbound host/BCC destination(s): github.com, signal8.ai.

• Transport config

  pass10% of grade

  Remote servers: TLS and auth mode (none/token/OAuth). Local servers: whether the manifest indicates it phones home.

  remote endpoint "https://mcp.signal8.ai/mcp" uses TLS (https); remote endpoint uses OAuth (strongest auth mode)