Beacon Threat Intelligence
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Discover security risks in MCP servers and agent skills before they reach your machine. Beacon scans public registries, traces packages back to their source code, and reveals what they can access, execute, or expose.
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| Name | Risk |
|---|---|
| Difficult Conversations Frameworks and scripts for having hard conversations. Use when someone needs to confront a boss, ask for a raise, set boundaries with family, talk about mone... | |
| Drop Spindle Spinning Basics Use when commercial yarn, thread, or fiber becomes unreliable, expensive, or unavailable and you need custom-strength, colorable, repairable yarn from local... | |
| Electrical Backup Power Electrical fundamentals and backup power systems. Use when someone needs to understand their electrical panel, safely connect a generator, evaluate solar opt... | |
| Emergency Financial Triage Priority-based action plan for financial emergencies. Use when someone can't make rent, is about to be evicted, can't afford food, has utilities about to be... | |
| Emergency Fund Builder Step-by-step protocol for building an emergency fund from zero. Use when someone has no savings buffer, lives paycheck to paycheck, or wants a concrete syste... | |
| Emotional Regulation Daily emotional regulation practices and anger management techniques. Use when someone overreacts to situations, struggles with emotional flooding, has anger... | |
| Everyday Help Activator Turn strangers, neighbors, service staff, and acquaintances into willing helpers for small daily needs by using proven, low-pressure scripts that make people... | |
| Family Emergency Planning Comprehensive family emergency preparedness planning. Use when someone wants to create a household emergency plan, prepare for natural disasters, build a go-... | |
| Fermentation Food Preservation Food preservation techniques including fermentation, pickling, canning, drying, and smoking. Use when someone wants to preserve harvests, extend food shelf l... | |
| Fire Skills Practical fire building, management, and safety skills. Use when someone needs to build a campfire, use a fireplace safely, learn to grill, or needs fire eme... | |
| Fishing Basics Beginner fishing skills covering licensing, gear, techniques, and catch-to-cook basics. Use when someone wants to start fishing for food or recreation, needs... | |
| Fitness For Desk Workers Rebuild a body that's been sitting in a chair for years. Fix posture, build functional strength, and recover mobility. No gym required. For people who are de... | |
| Foraging Wild Edibles Safe identification and harvesting of common wild edible plants. Use when someone wants to supplement food supply with wild plants, learn plant identificatio... | |
| Forest Cabin Local Mentor Locate and activate relationships with experienced local humans to gain practical knowledge, safety advice, regulatory guidance, and occasional hands-on supp... | |
| Green Wood Spoon Carving Basics Use when you need custom, food-safe, long-lasting wooden spoons, spatulas, or small utensils made from local green hardwood for daily cooking, eating, or tra... | |
| Grief Navigation Basics Practical guidance for navigating grief after loss. Use when someone has lost a person, relationship, job, or life chapter and needs help understanding what... | |
| Grow Food Anywhere Practical food growing for complete beginners. Apartment balcony, backyard, or windowsill. What actually produces enough to matter, realistic timelines, and... | |
| Habit Formation Evidence-based techniques for building habits and changing behavior. Use when someone wants to start exercising, quit a bad habit, build a daily practice, or... | |
| Handbuilt Pottery Pit Firing Basics Use when you need durable, repairable kitchenware, storage jars, tools, or ritual objects made from local clay without electricity, kilns, or commercial supp... | |
| Hosting Feeding Groups Practical skills for cooking and hosting groups of 10-50 people. Use when someone needs to feed a crowd for events, community gatherings, family reunions, bl... | |
| Howtousehumans Umbrella skill for the HowToUseHumans collection: catalog of all published life-survival agent skills, install commands, and pointers to the maintainer heart... | |
| Hygiene Without Infrastructure Maintaining hygiene and sanitation when normal infrastructure fails. Use when someone faces a water outage, sewer backup, extended power outage, camping with... | |
| Identity Rebuild Rebuild your sense of self when your career defined who you were and now it's gone. For people experiencing identity crisis after job loss, retirement, or ca... | |
| Job Shadow Risk Assessor Run a silent 21-day diagnostic to determine if your specific role is being phased out or automated in the next 6–18 months, then build a hidden financial and... | |
| Knot Tying Rope Work Practical knot tying and rope skills for everyday and outdoor use. Use when someone needs to secure a load, set up camp, tie something down, join ropes, or w... | |
| Land Assessment Evaluating and purchasing rural or semi-rural property. Use when someone is considering buying land, wants to homestead, is evaluating a property for food pr... | |
| Layoff 72 Hours Urgent, time-boxed protocol for the first 72 hours after losing a job. Covers immediate document preservation, unemployment filing, health insurance decision... | |
| Leatherworking Basics Use when you need to repair worn leather goods (boots, belts, bags, tool sheaths) or create new durable items from scratch for everyday self-reliance, gig wo... | |
| Loneliness First Aid Practical protocol for rebuilding human connection during isolation. Use when someone feels lonely, isolated, has no friends in their area, struggles to make... | |
| Mental Reset Suite Two-module mental health protocol covering burnout recovery and sleep overhaul. Module A: structured burnout recovery using the Maslach framework — identify... | |
| Mentorship Finding, maintaining, and providing mentorship relationships. Use when someone wants guidance in career or skill development, wants to find a mentor, has bee... | |
| Minor Injury First Response First aid protocols for sprains, strains, minor wounds, and common injuries. Use when someone is hurt and wants to know if they need emergency care or can tr... | |
| Money Crisis Ladder Three-phase money crisis protocol: immediate triage when you can't pay bills, surviving on drastically reduced income, and building financial resilience once... | |
| Mushroom Cultivation Basics Use when you need reliable, low-space, waste-based food production for nutrition security, supplemental income, or embodied self-reliance in post-AI gig-econ... | |
| Natural Earth Pigment Paint Making Basics Use when commercial paints, stains, or coatings become unreliable, expensive, or unavailable and you need durable, natural, breathable pigments made from loc... | |
| Natural Plant Dye Making Basics Use when commercial dyes or colored fabric become unreliable, expensive, or unavailable and you need vibrant, light-fast, wash-fast natural dyes made from lo... | |
| Navigation Without Screens Physical navigation skills without digital devices. Use when someone wants to learn map reading, compass use, natural navigation, or needs to navigate when t... | |
| Negotiation Trade In-person negotiation skills and barter/trade techniques. Use when someone needs to negotiate a price, hire a contractor, dispute a bill, buy or sell used go... | |
| Neighbor Mutual Aid Setting up a hyperlocal mutual aid network with neighbors. Use when someone wants to build community resilience, organize neighbors for mutual support, share... | |
| Nuclear Accident Human Lifeline Identify, pre-connect with, and rapidly activate trusted local humans (neighbors, officials, experts, and everyday residents) who become your real-time netwo... | |
| Nutrition Physical Labor Nutrition and hydration guidance for physically demanding occupations. Use when someone works in construction, trades, agriculture, food service, warehousing... | |
| Orchard Fruit Trees Planting and managing fruit trees and berry bushes for food production. Use when someone wants to grow fruit, is planting trees on a property, needs to maint... | |
| Outdoor Recreation Skills Practical skills for camping, hiking, and outdoor recreation. Use when someone wants to start camping, plan a hiking trip, learn outdoor cooking, or build co... | |
| Parenting Psychology Emotional and developmental parenting guidance for ages 0-18. Use when someone is struggling with child behavior, needs age-appropriate expectations, wants d... | |
| Pet First Aid Emergency first aid and health assessment for dogs and cats. Use when someone's pet is injured, choking, may have eaten something toxic, is overheating, or w... | |
| Physical De Escalation De-escalation techniques for in-person confrontations and tense physical situations. Use when someone faces angry customers, aggressive strangers, workplace... | |
| Pine Pitch Glue Making Basics Use when commercial adhesives, epoxies, or sealants become unreliable, expensive, or unavailable and you need strong, waterproof, heat-resistant natural glue... | |
| Plant Fiber Cordage Making Basics Use when you need strong, biodegradable rope, cord, or twine for hauling, binding loads, building shelters, fishing lines, or trade goods and commercial rope... | |
| Play Physical Instrument Get-started-fast guides for accessible physical instruments. Use when someone wants to learn an instrument, needs a stress relief practice, wants to play mus... | |
| Privacy Cleanup Remove personal data from data brokers and people-search sites. Use when someone wants to remove their information from the internet, is being stalked, wants... |
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Frequently asked questions
Anything missing? Read the reference or ask in the Beacon community.
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.