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Secure your MCP servers in 10 seconds

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You have MCP servers running. Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, maybe a custom one. Every tool call your agent makes goes straight to the server. No scanning, no access control, no logs. Here is how to put a security layer in front of all of them. Install # Go go install github.com/oktsec/oktsec/cmd/oktsec@v0.12.0 # or Homebrew brew install oktsec/tap/oktsec Run oktsec run That is it. One command. Here is what happens: Scans your machine for MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline, and 12 more) Finds every MCP server configured in each client Generates a security config with observe-mode defaults Creates Ed25519 keypairs for identity verification Wraps each MCP server through the oktsec proxy Starts scanning with a real-time dashboard No config file to write. No YAML to edit. No manual setup. What you see A TUI shows events in real time. Every tool call your agent makes passes through 230 detection rules before execution: oktsec v0.12.0 | observe mode | 3 agents |

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