Security review

Is openislands MCP safe to give an agent?

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A factual risk summary built from openislands’s real tool surface, execution model, and verification history — not a vibe. Trust score 50/100.

01What it can do

Has tools that can create or modify data.

1 tools observedwrite present

02Execution model

Runs locally over stdio — the server process executes on your machine with your user's privileges. Vet the source and package before granting access.

Installs via npx (`npx -y @openislands/mcp`) — it pulls and executes third-party code; pin versions and review the source.

03Permissions & auth

Query a database · destructive

The write/destructive access this server can exercise, inferred from its verified tools.

04Verification

handshakenot confirmed

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last_checked2026-10-01 05:33Z

sourcesGitHub repo search [p4]

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