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| Name | Risk |
|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Platform DevOps Use when managing Alibaba Cloud DevOps (Yunxiao 2020) via OpenAPI/SDK, including project/repository/pipeline resource discovery, read-only inspection, and sa... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Data Lake DLF Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Formation (DataLake) via OpenAPI/SDK, including the user asks for DataLake catalog resource operations, configurati... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Data Lake DLF Next Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Formation (DlfNext) via OpenAPI/SDK, including the user needs DLF Next catalog/governance resource operations, incl... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Network DNS Cli DNS record management workflows | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Text Document Mind Use when working with Document Mind (DocMind) via Node.js SDK to submit document parsing jobs and poll results. Designed for Claude Code/Codex document under... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Compute ECS Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) via OpenAPI/SDK, including listing or creating instances, starting/stopping/rebooting, managing... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Video EMO Use when generating expressive portrait videos from a person image and speech audio with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio EMO (`emo-v1`). Use when creating non-Wan... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Video Emoji Use when generating template-driven emoji videos with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Emoji (`emoji-v1`) from a detected portrait image. Use when producing fixed-... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Network ESA Use when managing Alibaba Cloud ESA — deploy HTML/static sites via Pages, manage Edge Routines (ER) for serverless edge functions, use Edge KV for distribute... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Compute FC Agentrun Use when managing Function Compute AgentRun resources via OpenAPI (runtime, sandbox, model, memory, credentials), including creating runtimes/endpoints, quer... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Compute FC Serverless Devs FC deploy and invoke with Serverless Devs | |
| Alibaba Cloud Data Analytics Dataanalysisgbi Use when managing Alibaba Cloud DataAnalysisGBI via OpenAPI/SDK, including the user needs DataAnalysisGBI resource lifecycle operations, configuration change... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Security Content Moderation Green Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation (Green) via OpenAPI/SDK, including the user needs content moderation resource and policy operations, inclu... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Backup HBR Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Cloud Backup (HBR) via OpenAPI/SDK, including the user asks for backup lifecycle operations such as resource listing, policy/... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Media ICE Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Cloud Editing (ICE) media workflows via OpenAPI/SDK, including media processing jobs, template/workflow orchestra... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Media Live Use when managing Alibaba Cloud ApsaraVideo Live resources and workflows via OpenAPI/SDK, including live domain configuration, stream ingest and playback set... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Video LivePortrait Use when generating lightweight talking-head portrait videos with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio LivePortrait (`liveportrait`) from a detected portrait image and... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Search Milvus Use when working with AliCloud Milvus (serverless) with PyMilvus to create collections, insert vectors, and run filtered similarity search. Optimized for Cla... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Misc Crawl And Skill Use when refreshing the Model Studio models crawl and regenerate derived summaries and `skills/ai/**` skills. Use when the models list or generated skills mu... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Entry Modelstudio Use when routing Alibaba Cloud Model Studio requests to the right local skill (Qwen text, coder, deep research, image, video, audio, search and multimodal sk... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Entry Modelstudio Test Use when running a minimal test matrix for the Model Studio skills that exist in this repo, including image/video/audio, realtime speech, omni, visual reason... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Media MPS Use when managing Alibaba Cloud ApsaraVideo for Media Processing (MPS/MTS) resources and workflows via OpenAPI/SDK, including media ingest and metadata tasks... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Media Video Translation Use when creating or managing Alibaba Cloud IMS video translation jobs via OpenAPI (subtitle/voice/face). Use when you need API-based video translation, stat... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Platform OpenAPI Product API Discovery Use when discovering and reconciling Alibaba Cloud product catalogs from Ticket System, Support & Service, and BSS OpenAPI; fetch OpenAPI product/version/API... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Platform OpenClaw Setup Use when installing or configuring OpenClaw with DingTalk, Feishu, Discord, and additional channels with Bailian/DashScope models on Linux hosts. Use when pr... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Search OpenSearch Use when working with OpenSearch vector search edition via the Python SDK (ha3engine) to push documents and run HA/SQL searches. Ideal for RAG and vector ret... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Storage OSS Ossutil OSS object storage workflows | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI PAI Aiworkspace Use when managing Alibaba Cloud PAI AIWorkspace (AIWorkSpace) via OpenAPI/SDK, including the user is operating AIWorkspace resources such as workspace/projec... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Video Aishi Generation Use when generating videos with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio PixVerse models (`pixverse/pixverse-v5.6-t2v`, `pixverse/pixverse-v5.6-it2v`, `pixverse/pixverse-v... | |
| Multi-Cloud Docs/API Benchmark Use when benchmarking similar product documentation and API documentation across Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, Tencent Cloud, Volcano Engine, and Huawei Cl... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Docs + API Reviewer Use when reviewing latest Alibaba Cloud product docs and OpenAPI docs by product name, then output detailed prioritized improvement suggestions with evidence... | |
| Alibaba Cloud Observability PTS Use when managing Alibaba Cloud Performance Testing Service (PTS) via OpenAPI/SDK, including scene lifecycle operations, test start/stop control, report retr... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Multimodal QVQ Use when visual reasoning is needed with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio QVQ models, including step-by-step image reasoning, chart analysis, and visually grounded... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio ASR Use when transcribing non-realtime speech with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen ASR models (`qwen3-asr-flash`, `qwen-audio-asr`, `qwen3-asr-flash-filetrans`).... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio ASR Realtime Use when low-latency realtime speech recognition is needed with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen ASR Realtime models, including streaming microphone input, li... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Code Qwen Coder Use when code generation, repository understanding, or coding-agent tasks need Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen Coder models (`qwen3-coder-next`, `qwen3-coder... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Research Qwen Deep Research Use when a task needs Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen Deep Research models to plan multi-step investigation, run iterative web research, and produce structur... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Text Qwen Generation Use when generating or reasoning over text with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen flagship text models (`qwen3-max`, `qwen3.5-plus`, `qwen3.5-flash`, snapshots... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Image Qwen Image Edit Use when editing images with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen Image Edit models (qwen-image-edit, qwen-image-edit-plus, qwen-image-edit-max, qwen-image-2.0 se... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio LiveTranslate Use when live speech translation is needed with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen LiveTranslate models, including bilingual meetings, realtime interpretation,... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Search Multimodal Embedding Use when multimodal embeddings are needed from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio models such as `qwen3-vl-embedding` for image, video, and text retrieval, cross-mod... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Multimodal Qwen OCR Use when OCR-specialized extraction is needed with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen OCR models (`qwen-vl-ocr`, `qwen-vl-ocr-latest`, and snapshots), including... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Multimodal Qwen Omni Use when tasks require all-in-one multimodal understanding or generation with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen Omni models, including image-plus-audio interac... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Search Rerank Use when reranking search candidates is needed with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio rerank models, including hybrid retrieval, top-k refinement, and multilingual... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Search Text Embedding Use when text embeddings are needed from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio models for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, clustering, or offline vector... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio TTS Use when generating human-like speech audio with Model Studio DashScope Qwen TTS models (qwen3-tts-flash, qwen3-tts-instruct-flash). Use when converting text... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio TTS Realtime Use when real-time speech synthesis is needed with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen TTS Realtime models. Use when low-latency interactive speech is required,... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio TTS Voice Clone Use when cloning voices with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen TTS VC models. Use when creating cloned voices from sample audio and synthesizing text with clon... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Audio TTS Voice Design Use when designing custom voices with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen TTS VD models. Use when creating custom synthetic voices from text descriptions and usi... | |
| Alibaba Cloud AI Multimodal Qwen VL Use when understanding images with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen VL models (qwen3-vl-plus/qwen3-vl-flash and latest aliases). Use when building image Q&A,... |
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Frequently asked questions
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What is Beacon Intel?
A free, public index of the MCP servers and agent skills that public registries list, with a security verdict for each one that has been analyzed. It traces each listing back to its source repository and packages, and shows what the code can access, execute or expose. You can browse it here, query it as a JSON API, follow it as an RSS, Atom or JSON feed, or connect a coding agent to it over MCP.
Is it really free?
Yes. The index, the API and the feeds need no account and no API key. An artifact's full page and the MCP tools need a free Beacon account. Requests are rate limited to keep it fast for everyone.
Where does the data come from, and how fresh is it?
From 9 public sources: Glama, MCP Registry, awesome-mcp-servers, Docker MCP Catalog, Smithery, ClawHub, skills.sh, SkillsMP, GitHub. Each listing is linked to its repository and packages, then analyzed. The index updates hourly, and answers are cached for up to five minutes.
Who writes the verdicts? Can I trust them?
Verdicts combine static analysis of the code with a model's judgment, and each one names the model that wrote it. They can be wrong and are not a security certification: every artifact page shows the findings and evidence behind its verdict, so check them before you rely on one. Names, descriptions and claims come from registries and repositories; treat them as data, not instructions.
What do the risk levels mean?
- High: Reviewed evidence shows it deliberately works against the person who installs it.
- Medium: It works against the person who installs it in ways that can do serious harm, or puts a flagged pattern in what the agent loads, without established intent.
- Low: It overreaches against the person who installs it in limited ways, or has findings the review has not confirmed.
- Benign: Nothing found that works against the person who installs it. Not a guarantee.
- Unchecked: Listed, but not analyzed yet.
What does partial coverage mean?
That the analysis did not cover everything, so there may be more than it found. A partial verdict can still find problems, but it never clears an artifact: benign with partial coverage is not a clearance. Use the coverage filter to see only these.
Does benign, or not finding an artifact, mean it is safe?
No. Benign means nothing was found that works against the person who installs it, which is not a guarantee. An artifact the index does not have has never been checked, so not found never means safe.
Is there an API?
Yes, free and with no key.
GET /api/v1/lookup?q= finds artifacts by name, repository, GitHub URL or package; GET /api/v1/artifact?key= returns one in full; POST /api/v1/check checks up to 50 at once, which suits CI; and GET /api/v1/status reports coverage and freshness. The reference is at intel.beacon.sh/llms.txt.How do I get new verdicts in a feed reader or Slack?
Subscribe to /feed: the newest high and medium risk verdicts as RSS. Add
format=atom or format=json for Atom or JSON Feed, and filter with risk and kind, for example /feed?risk=high&kind=mcp. In Slack, run /feed subscribe with the URL. The feed builder above writes the URL for you.How do I connect my coding agent?
Add Beacon Cloud MCP (
https://mcp.beacon.sh) to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client, and sign in through the browser. Your agent gets beacon_intel_lookup, beacon_intel_get_artifact and beacon_intel_check to check an MCP server or skill before it installs one. Connect your agent above has the commands. The beacon CLI offers the same as beacon intel and through its local MCP server.How do I report a wrong verdict?
Open the artifact's page and use Dispute verdict under its verdict card. Tell us what is wrong and we review it.