mcp-trust AGENTS.md

Project instructions for a public trust registry for MCP servers, which are tools that AI systems can connect to. The registry records servers, scans them, converts results into danger grades and transparency signals, and exposes the records through APIs and web pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing server registration, scanning, grading, persistence, API responses, web catalog pages, or README badge output.
Why use it?
They define the project's product focus and current state so changes support the public catalog and stable lookup service. They also remind contributors that committed content is public.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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/saagpatel/mcp-trust/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saagpatel/mcp-trust

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,505 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,505 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 $0.01505 $0.01505
Opus 5 $0.00753 $0.00753
Sonnet 5 $0.00301 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00151 $0.00151

Measured 2d ago against content hash 23d4f2cd6bec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-trust AGENTS.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.

AGENTS.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — MCP Trust Registry

Project Summary

MCP Trust Registry is a neutral public trust registry for MCP servers. Its product loop is "check before you connect": register public MCP servers, scan them with a pluggable engine, normalize the results into an A-F danger grade plus transparency signal, persist the record, and serve it through a public API, web catalog, and README badge endpoint.

This repo is not trying to win by being another scanner. The scanner is a replaceable backend; the durable layer is the public catalog, stable lookup API, trust-grade normalization, and author badge distribution loop. The current real engine adapter wraps mcp-audits, while the default StubEngine keeps the full system testable without launching untrusted code.

Current State

The MVP is built and tested end to end: seed catalog, scan, grade, persist, serve JSON and web views, and emit shields.io-compatible badge JSON. The repository is public. Treat anything committed here, and anything written in an issue or pull request, as published the moment it lands. The product itself is pre-launch. The seed catalog now contains official reference MCP servers for launch calibration. Product launch is gated by validating sandboxed real-engine scans, inspecting the grade distribution, deciding whether to broaden beyond reference servers, deploying the FastAPI app with persistent SQLite storage, and smoke-testing the badge loop against the public base URL.

Stack

  • Python 3.11, pinned by .python-version so uv venv and uv run match CI
  • FastAPI and Uvicorn for the API/web surface
  • Typer for the CLI
  • Pydantic domain models
  • SQLite persistence
  • Pytest and Ruff for local verification
  • Optional mcp-audits engine extra for real MCP-server scanning

How To Run

Install and run the deterministic local path. uv venv reads .python-version, so the virtualenv is built on 3.11 rather than whatever interpreter happens to be first on PATH; do not remove that file. Activate before running anything, or use uv run --frozen --extra dev <command> instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 1,505 tokens per session scan A 23d4f2cd6bec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-trust AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository saagpatel/mcp-trust (0 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,505 tokens to every session, about $0.0075 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.