Raw scan report

Ansys Mechanical — the complete, unedited output of the deterministic mcptrustchecker engine v1.9.0, scanned . Every finding, capability tag and score component below is exactly what the engine produced — no AI, no post-processing.

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{
  "tool": {
    "name": "mcptrustchecker",
    "version": "1.9.0",
    "methodologyVersion": "mcptrustchecker-1.9"
  },
  "target": {
    "id": "ansys-mechanical-mcp",
    "source": {
      "kind": "package",
      "origin": "ansys-mechanical-mcp"
    },
    "server": {
      "name": "ansys-mechanical-mcp"
    }
  },
  "grade": "A",
  "score": {
    "score": 93,
    "threatScore": 100,
    "grade": "A",
    "band": "A",
    "categorySubtotals": {
      "injection": 0,
      "exfiltration": 0,
      "permissions": 0,
      "supply-chain": 0,
      "network": 0,
      "hygiene": 0
    },
    "vector": [
      {
        "kind": "client",
        "term": "capability-exposure",
        "level": "high",
        "label": "capability blast radius (high) — client exposure if the model is manipulated",
        "appliedPenalty": 6
      },
      {
        "kind": "client",
        "term": "verification-discount",
        "level": "repo",
        "label": "publisher verification (public source) — no provenance, but the source is public and inspectable",
        "appliedPenalty": 1
      },
      {
        "kind": "client",
        "term": "coverage-honesty",
        "level": "source",
        "label": "inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see",
        "appliedPenalty": 0
      }
    ],
    "gatesFired": [],
    "methodologyVersion": "mcptrustchecker-1.9"
  },
  "capability": {
    "level": "high",
    "reasons": [
      "ingests untrusted external content (a prompt-injection entry point)",
      "can send data / act on an external service",
      "reads sensitive or local data",
      "has a read → egress path (a data-exfiltration surface)",
      "untrusted-input, sensitive-source and egress co-exist across tools (toxic-flow surface)"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "sensitive-source",
      "external-sink",
      "untrusted-input"
    ]
  },
  "coverage": {
    "level": "source",
    "inputs": {
      "toolSurface": true,
      "implementationSource": true,
      "packageMetadata": true,
      "liveTransport": false
    },
    "caveats": [
      "Tools were statically extracted from the published source (20 recovered), not enumerated from a running server. Tool-poisoning, Unicode-smuggling, capability and toxic-flow analysis ran on this inferred surface, but a mis-parsed registration could be missed or mis-attributed, so tool-derived findings are capped below “confirmed”. To grade the real runtime surface, scan the running server: --command \"npx -y <package>\"."
    ]
  },
  "findings": [
    {
      "ruleId": "MTC-FLOW-002",
      "title": "Completed toxic-flow trifecta across tools",
      "category": "exfiltration",
      "severity": "critical",
      "confidence": "strong",
      "description": "This server (without client built-ins) exposes a complete data-exfiltration chain: download_file → list_files → open_project. Untrusted input is ingested, private data is read, and it can be sent to an external sink via the agent composing the tools (→). Static analysis proves the primitive exists, not that a specific run will occur.",
      "remediation": "Remove one leg of the trifecta: isolate untrusted-input tools from secret-reading tools and from egress tools, or require human approval between them.",
      "location": {
        "kind": "flow",
        "name": "download_file → list_files → open_project"
      },
      "owasp": "LLM02:2025 Sensitive Information Disclosure",
      "references": [],
      "data": {
        "untrusted": [
          "download_file"
        ],
        "sources": [
          "list_files"
        ],
        "sinks": [
          "upload_file",
          "open_project"
        ],
        "path": [
          "download_file",
          "list_files",
          "open_project"
        ],
        "edges": [
          {
            "from": "download_file",
            "to": "list_files",
            "kind": "agent-mediated"
          },
          {
            "from": "list_files",
            "to": "open_project",
            "kind": "agent-mediated"
          }
        ],
        "wired": false
      }
    },
    {
      "ruleId": "MTC-SUP-012",
      "title": "Package has no license",
      "category": "hygiene",
      "severity": "info",
      "confidence": "strong",
      "description": "\"ansys-mechanical-mcp\" has no declared license. This is a legal/reuse concern, not a security finding.",
      "location": {
        "kind": "package",
        "name": "ansys-mechanical-mcp"
      }
    }
  ],
  "toxicFlows": [
    {
      "id": "flow-1",
      "severity": "critical",
      "confidence": "strong",
      "untrustedInput": [
        "download_file"
      ],
      "sensitiveSource": [
        "list_files"
      ],
      "externalSink": [
        "upload_file",
        "open_project"
      ],
      "selfContained": false,
      "path": [
        "download_file",
        "list_files",
        "open_project"
      ],
      "pathWired": false,
      "description": "A cross-tool exfiltration chain exists: download_file → list_files → open_project."
    }
  ],
  "capabilities": [
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      "tool": "get_guidelines_for",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "check_mechanical_installed",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "run_python_script",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "launch_mechanical",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "connect_to_mechanical",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "disconnect_from_mechanical",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "list_mechanical_instances",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "list_files",
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        "sensitive-source"
      ],
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          "keyword \"list_files\""
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "tool": "upload_file",
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      ],
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        ]
      }
    },
    {
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        "untrusted-input"
      ],
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          "keyword \"download\""
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "tool": "clear_mechanical",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "get_model_info",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "screenshot",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "run_python_code",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "create_custom_plot",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "save_project",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "open_project",
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        "external-sink"
      ],
      "reasons": {
        "external-sink": [
          "keyword \"open_pr\""
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "tool": "solve_analysis",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "export_results",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    },
    {
      "tool": "get_mechanical_logs",
      "tags": [],
      "reasons": {}
    }
  ],
  "surfaceDigest": "3f8ded01c2cc8460a1be3e79ff509915193c43aa09377b90b7662da973614c96",
  "stats": {
    "tools": 20,
    "prompts": 0,
    "resources": 0,
    "findingsBySeverity": {
      "critical": 1,
      "high": 0,
      "medium": 0,
      "low": 0,
      "info": 1
    }
  }
}