Kicad Mcp Pro — 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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"target": {
"id": "kicad-mcp-pro",
"source": {
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"server": {
"name": "kicad-mcp-pro"
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"score": {
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"grade": "A",
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"permissions": 0,
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"kind": "client",
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"level": "source",
"label": "inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see",
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"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (82 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>\"."
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/kicad_mcp/bridge.py:526`): 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.",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/kicad_mcp/diagnostics.py:283`): 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.",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/kicad_mcp/discovery.py)",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/kicad_mcp/discovery.py:148`): 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.",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/kicad_mcp/tools/export_support.py:68`): 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.",
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