io.github.ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad

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

  pass25% of grade

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

  Scanned 597 text field(s); no instruction-injection patterns found. PASS = no static red flag. A server can serve different tool descriptions at runtime (the rug-pull class), which static scanning cannot see.

• Supply chain

  pass25% of grade

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

  Python build script has no build-time network/exec; repository linkage verified

• 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 0.20.0 (patch bump): new tool "get_schematic_summary" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_components" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_labels" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_wires" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_global_labels" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_hierarchical_labels" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_sheets" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_junctions" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_no_connects" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_schematic_bus_entries" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_symbol_pins" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_pin_positions" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_net_connections" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "place_component" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_component" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_label" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_wire" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_junction" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_wires" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_label" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_junctions" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_lib_symbol" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "move_component" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "set_component_property" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "set_page_size" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_global_label" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_hierarchical_label" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_hierarchical_label" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "modify_hierarchical_label" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_power_symbol" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "auto_place_decoupling_cap" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_text" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_text" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "wire_pins_to_net" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "connect_pins" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "no_connect_pin" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_no_connect" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_unconnected_pins" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "run_erc" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_schematic" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_netlist" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_bom" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_pcb_footprints" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_pcb_traces" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_pcb_nets" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_pcb_zones" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_pcb_layers" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_pcb_graphic_items" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_board_info" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_footprint_pads" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "place_footprint" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "move_footprint" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "check_placement" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_footprint" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_trace" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_via" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_pcb_text" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_pcb_line" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_copper_zone" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_keepout_zone" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "fill_zones" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "update_pcb_from_schematic" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "set_trace_width" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_traces" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_thermal_vias" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "set_net_class" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_dangling_tracks" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "run_drc" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_pcb" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_gerbers" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_3d" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_positions" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_ipc2581" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "autoroute_pcb" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_footprint_bounds" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "validate_board" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_lib_symbols" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_symbol_info" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_symbol" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_symbol_svg" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "upgrade_symbol_lib" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_lib_footprints" appeared; new tool "get_footprint_info" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_footprint_svg" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "upgrade_footprint_lib" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "create_project" appeared; new tool "create_schematic" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "create_symbol_library" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "create_sym_lib_table" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_hierarchical_sheet" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "remove_hierarchical_sheet" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "modify_hierarchical_sheet" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "add_sheet_pin" appeared; new tool "remove_sheet_pin" appeared; new tool "annotate_schematic" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "validate_hierarchy" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "is_root_schematic" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_hierarchy" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_sheet_info" appeared; new tool "trace_hierarchical_net" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "list_cross_sheet_nets" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_symbol_instances" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "move_hierarchical_sheet" appeared; new tool "reorder_sheet_pages" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "duplicate_sheet" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "flatten_hierarchy" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "export_hierarchical_netlist" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "run_jobset" touches a sensitive surface (email/exec/net/fs); new tool "get_version" appeared.

• Transport config

  unscannable10% of grade

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

  local stdio server: no remote transport or auth surface, and no phone-home/telemetry signal found in source. Absence of transport findings is NOT a safety guarantee — phone-home hosts can be constructed at runtime and defeat static analysis.