audit-db CLAUDE.md

A set of repository instructions for the MCP Server Audit Database, a collection of security reviews for open-source Model Context Protocol servers. It defines the repository's purpose, structure, naming rules, and audit-validation requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing audits, metadata, JSON, and Markdown files so submissions follow the required layout, naming conventions, evidence, and validation process.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a shared standard for recording reproducible security findings instead of submitting unsupported pass-or-fail judgments.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/modelcontextprotocol-security/audit-db/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ModelContextProtocol-Security/audit-db
Per session 1,139 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,139 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01139 $0.01139
Opus 5 $0.00570 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00228 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00114 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash 90c21a21415b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-db CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Purpose

This is the MCP Server Audit Database — a community-maintained repository of security audit results for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It stores structured audit data (JSON + Markdown), not runnable code: there is no build system, no test suite, and no lint step. "Correctness" here means conforming to the directory structure, naming conventions, and validation rules below — enforced at PR-review time, not by CI tooling.

The defining principle (see README.md) is radical transparency: every audit must document its full methodology, prompts, reasoning, and evidence so findings can be independently reproduced. Only open-source MCP servers are accepted, so audits remain reproducible. Simple "good/bad" verdicts without supporting rationale are rejected.

Repository Structure

audit-db/
├── audits/
│   └── [domain]/[org]/[repo]/          # e.g. audits/github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-mcp/
│       ├── metadata.json               # Repo-level: mcp_classification, security_summary, audit_history
│       └── audits/
│           └── [auditor]-[date]-[seq]/  # e.g. panasenco-2026-02-02-001/
│               ├── audit-manifest.json  # target (repo_url + commit_hash + version), findings_summary, tools_used
│               ├── security-assessment.md  # Main human-readable report
│               ├── findings/            # One file per finding, by severity
│               │   └── [severity]-[num]-[name].md
│               ├── artifacts/           # Supporting evidence (code-samples/, diagrams, JSON)
│               └── raw-notes.md         # Working notes
├── examples/                            # Demo audits (e.g. finder-audit-demo-2025-08-20)
└── AUDIT_PR_VALIDATION_PROMPT.md        # The workflow for validating incoming audit PRs (see below)

Current real audits live under audits/github.com/: dbt-labs/dbt-mcp, isaacwasserman/mcp-snowflake-server, makenotion/notion-mcp-server.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 1,139 tokens per session scan A 90c21a21415b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audit-db CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ModelContextProtocol-Security/audit-db (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,139 tokens to every session, about $0.0057 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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