Coherence — the complete, unedited output of the deterministic mcptrustchecker engine v1.13.0, scanned . Every finding, capability tag and score component below is exactly what the engine produced — no AI, no post-processing.
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"version": "1.13.0",
"methodologyVersion": "mcptrustchecker-1.13"
},
"target": {
"id": "coherence-mcp-server",
"source": {
"kind": "package",
"origin": "coherence-mcp-server"
},
"server": {
"name": "coherence-mcp-server"
}
},
"grade": "B",
"score": {
"score": 89,
"threatScore": 100,
"grade": "B",
"band": "B",
"categorySubtotals": {
"injection": 0,
"exfiltration": 0,
"permissions": 0,
"supply-chain": 0,
"network": 0,
"hygiene": 0
},
"vector": [
{
"kind": "client",
"term": "capability-exposure",
"level": "critical",
"label": "capability blast radius (critical) — client exposure if the model is manipulated",
"appliedPenalty": 10
},
{
"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-1.13"
},
"capability": {
"level": "critical",
"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)",
"can execute shell commands or code",
"untrusted-input, sensitive-source and egress co-exist across tools (toxic-flow surface)",
"untrusted input can reach code execution"
],
"tags": [
"untrusted-input",
"sensitive-source",
"external-sink",
"code-exec"
]
},
"coverage": {
"level": "source",
"inputs": {
"toolSurface": true,
"implementationSource": true,
"packageMetadata": true,
"liveTransport": false
},
"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (92 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: coherence_get_news_feed → coherence_read_file ⇒ coherence_send_message. Untrusted input is ingested, private data is read, and it can be sent to an external sink — and at least one leg is a direct schema wire (⇒), where a producer's output drops straight into a free-text parameter of the next tool, so the chain needs little agent cooperation. 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": "coherence_get_news_feed → coherence_read_file → coherence_send_message"
},
"owasp": "LLM02:2025 Sensitive Information Disclosure",
"references": [],
"data": {
"untrusted": [
"coherence_list_ideas",
"coherence_get_news_feed",
"coherence_list_concepts",
"coherence_news_feed"
],
"sources": [
"coherence_read_file"
],
"sinks": [
"coherence_send_message"
],
"path": [
"coherence_get_news_feed",
"coherence_read_file",
"coherence_send_message"
],
"edges": [
{
"from": "coherence_get_news_feed",
"to": "coherence_read_file",
"kind": "agent-mediated"
},
{
"from": "coherence_read_file",
"to": "coherence_send_message",
"kind": "schema-wired"
}
],
"wired": true
}
},
{
"ruleId": "MTC-SRC-002",
"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (index.mjs)",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "high",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`index.mjs:11`): Spawning a shell/process is command-execution capability; with unsanitized tool input it is command injection / RCE. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.",
"remediation": "Review this call path: confirm it never receives unsanitized tool input, constrain it, or remove it. Treat a server whose code reaches these sinks as high-capability regardless of what its tools claim.",
"location": {
"kind": "server",
"name": "index.mjs"
},
"evidence": "rt { spawn } from \"node:child_process\"; import { fileURLToPath } from \"node:url\"; import { dirname, join } from \"node:pa",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
"data": {
"rule": "MTC-SRC-002",
"file": "index.mjs",
"line": 11,
"nonRuntime": false
}
},
{
"ruleId": "MTC-CAP-008",
"title": "Unconstrained path parameter \"path\" on \"coherence_read_file\"",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "low",
"confidence": "heuristic",
"description": "Tool \"coherence_read_file\" takes a path parameter \"path\" with no constraint. Without a canonicalize-and-contain check (not visible statically), this permits ../ traversal outside the intended root.",
"remediation": "Resolve and verify the path stays within an allowed root; reject traversal sequences.",
"location": {
"kind": "tool",
"name": "coherence_read_file",
"field": "inputSchema.properties.path"
},
"data": {
"param": "path"
}
}
],
"toxicFlows": [
{
"id": "flow-1",
"severity": "critical",
"confidence": "strong",
"untrustedInput": [
"coherence_list_ideas",
"coherence_get_news_feed",
"coherence_list_concepts",
"coherence_news_feed"
],
"sensitiveSource": [
"coherence_read_file"
],
"externalSink": [
"coherence_send_message"
],
"selfContained": false,
"path": [
"coherence_get_news_feed",
"coherence_read_file",
"coherence_send_message"
],
"pathWired": true,
"description": "A cross-tool exfiltration chain exists: coherence_get_news_feed → coherence_read_file ⇒ coherence_send_message."
}
],
"capabilities": [
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"tool": "coherence_list_ideas",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
"reasons": {
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"keyword \"browse\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_idea",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_idea_progress",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_select_idea",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_showcase",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_resonance",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_specs",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_spec",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_lineage",
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{
"tool": "coherence_lineage_valuation",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_providers",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_link_identity",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_lookup_identity",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_identities",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_record_contribution",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_contributor_ledger",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_status",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_friction_report",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_agent_invitation",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_federation_nodes",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_awareness_publish",
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},
{
"tool": "coherence_awareness_stream",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_node_message_send",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_node_messages",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_tasks",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_task",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_task_next",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_task_claim",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_task_report",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_task_seed",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_task_events",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_create_idea",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_workspaces",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_workspace",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_create_workspace",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_workspace_pillars",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_update_idea",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_edges",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_entity_edges",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_create_edge",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_assets",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_asset",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_create_asset",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_news_feed",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
"reasons": {
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"keyword \"rss\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_news_resonance",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_news_sources",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_add_news_source",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_trending_news",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_treasury_info",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_record_deposit",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_deposit_history",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_change_requests",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_change_request",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_vote_governance",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_propose_governance",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_dif_stats",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_recent_dif",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_resonant_peers",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_nearby_peers",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_blueprints",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_apply_blueprint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_read_file",
"tags": [
"sensitive-source"
],
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"keyword \"read_file\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_concepts",
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"untrusted-input"
],
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"keyword \"browse\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_concept",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_link_concepts",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_create_spec",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_update_spec",
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"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_advance_idea",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_trace",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_pipeline_policies",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_workspace_tasks",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_workspace_members",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_invite_member",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_my_workspaces",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_send_message",
"tags": [
"external-sink"
],
"reasons": {
"external-sink": [
"keyword \"send_message\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_inbox",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_workspace_activity",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_list_workspace_projects",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_create_workspace_project",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_discover",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_constellation",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_vitality",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_resonate",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_news_feed",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
"reasons": {
"untrusted-input": [
"keyword \"rss\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_news_resonance",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_federation_nodes",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_belief_profile",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_cc_supply",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_governance_requests",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_field_story",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_get_field_story_artifact",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "coherence_contribute_field_story",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
}
],
"surfaceDigest": "98240b822d259edde431bd220c3cfe9fbb9cb3dca52251fe517b09f9f6ed7380",
"stats": {
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"prompts": 0,
"resources": 0,
"findingsBySeverity": {
"critical": 1,
"high": 1,
"medium": 0,
"low": 1,
"info": 0
}
}
}