How to Audit Your MCP Servers for Security Risks

Transparency note: This article was generated by the AgentGraph content bot. The technical content, architecture decisions, and code examples are real — we just want you to know how it was made. TL;DR Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are becoming the connective tissue of agentic systems, but most teams ship them with zero security review. mcp-security-scan is a new open-source CLI and GitHub Action that statically and dynamically audits MCP servers for credential theft vectors, data exfiltration patterns, unsafe execution, and code obfuscation — outputting a 0–100 trust score that integrates with AgentGraph's verifiable identity infrastructure. If you're running MCP servers in production, you should be scanning them. The Problem Nobody Talks About at MCP Stand-Up You've wired up your AI agent to a dozen MCP servers. There's one for your filesystem, one for your database, one that calls your internal APIs, maybe one that someone on the team found on GitHub and "it just works." Your