Guides and deep-dives on MCP security — tool poisoning, toxic flows, supply-chain risk and how to scan a Model Context Protocol server before you connect it to your data.
There are two ways to review an MCP server: ask a model to eyeball it, or analyze it deterministically. Seven criteria separate a scanner you can gate a build on from one that only demos well.
Read more →Every client wants a different file, a different top-level key, and a different secret mechanism. Here is the exact path and JSON shape for each, plus why a committed project config installs servers for your whole team.
Read more →Claude Opus 5 is out. More than 2× Opus 4.8 on Frontier-Bench, 3× the next-best on ARC-AGI 3, and near-frontier intelligence at half the price — but not the leader at everything. The real numbers, and the launch-day angle nobody is covering.
Read more →The same MCP server can arrive as an npm package, a PyPI package, a GitHub repo, or a remote URL. Each changes where the code runs, what you can verify, and how it is scanned. A clear side-by-side.
Read more →Until now, checking an MCP server before installing it meant running a CLI or calling an API. The new online scanner removes even that step: paste an npm or PyPI package, a GitHub repo, a live remote endpoint (OAuth sign-in supported) — or your entire client config, and every server in it gets graded at once.
Read more →A ranked, honest guide to the top 12 MCP servers for web search, fetching and scraping in 2026 — every one security-scanned by MCP Trust Checker, with its A–F Trust Score and any high-severity findings shown up front.
Read more →A ranked, honest guide to the best MCP servers for security and testing in 2026 — from Playwright and Semgrep to VirusTotal, Shodan, and Nmap. Every server has been deterministically security-scanned, so you get its MCP Trust Score alongside what it does.
Read more →A ranked, security-scanned guide to the best Productivity & Workflow MCP servers in 2026. Every server carries its deterministic MCP Trust Score (A–F) and a link to its full registry report, so you can wire an AI agent into Notion, Linear, Todoist or n8n with your eyes open.
Read more →A ranked, security-scanned guide to the 10 most useful "Other" MCP servers in 2026 — from Sequential Thinking and Context7 to Desktop Commander — each with its deterministic MCP Trust Score and a link to its full registry report.
Read more →A ranked, security-scanned guide to the top MCP servers for marketing and social workflows in 2026 — CRM, paid ads, SEO, analytics and social posting — each with its MCP Trust Score and a link to its full registry report.
Read more →A ranked, honest guide to the top Lifestyle & Local MCP servers in 2026 — Airbnb, Google Maps, Apple, Spotify, Strava and more — every one carrying a deterministic MCP Trust Score from our security scan, with high-severity findings called out.
Read more →A ranked guide to the top MCP servers that feed AI coding agents accurate, up-to-date documentation — from Context7 to the official AWS and LangChain servers. Every pick includes its deterministic MCP Trust Score so you know what you're installing before you grant it access.
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