What is research-filesystem?

A Python-based MCP server configuration for a service called research-filesystem. The available details only show its startup command and required OpenAI and vector database credentials.

Starting the configured research service when its two environment variables are available.

It records how to start the service, but the supplied information does not explain what research tasks or file operations it supports.

research-filesystem — MCP server by msaad00/agent-bom

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/msaad00/agent-bom

Installing this writes the configuration, not the program: `python` runs a file from the repository, so clone it first and make the path in the command match where you put it.

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

Socket warn 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-filesystem 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 2mo 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.

examples/first-run-ai-stack/.cursor/mcp.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "research-filesystem": {
    "command": "python",
    "args": [
      "services/research-mcp/server.py"
    ],
    "env": {
      "OPENAI_API_KEY": "${OPENAI_API_KEY}",
      "VECTOR_DB_TOKEN": "${VECTOR_DB_TOKEN}"
    }
  }
}

Same file

What else `mcp.json` configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 2. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

MCP server browser-helper A not measured

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.

2mo ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 8b84366f5530

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-filesystem is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository msaad00/agent-bom (31 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-09-06.

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