Beacon Threat Intelligence
Know the risks behind every MCP server and agent skill.
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 |
|---|---|
| RPA Developer Professional RPA Developer Career Roadmap Platform for UiPath and BluePrism automation technologies. | |
| Satellite Comm Professional entry-level satellite communication engineering career roadmap platform that generates personalized learning paths based on skills assessment. | |
| SDET Automation Professional test automation career roadmap platform that generates personalized learning paths for SDET and automation engineers. | |
| SOX Compliance Enterprise-grade Sarbanes-Oxley assessment platform that evaluates organizational compliance with SOX requirements across multiple control domains. | |
| SSL Certificate Manager Automate SSL certificate generation and management with DNS challenge validation and certificate provisioning. | |
| Subdomain Enumerator Discovers and enumerates all subdomains associated with a target domain using deep reconnaissance techniques. | |
| Suspicious File Scanner Analyzes uploaded files to detect suspicious characteristics and potential security threats. | |
| System Administrator Professional System Administration Career Roadmap Platform that generates personalized career development paths based on skills assessment and experience level. | |
| Temp Access Link Generate secure, time-limited access links for file sharing with automatic expiration. | |
| Test Engineer Professional entry-level software testing career roadmap platform that generates personalized learning paths based on candidate assessment data. | |
| Threat Assessment Defense Guide Generate comprehensive cybersecurity threat assessments and defense guides. Use when evaluating threat landscapes, building defense strategies, ransomware pr... | |
| Threat Intel Aggregator Aggregates and analyzes threat intelligence data to check targets against known threats and security risks. | |
| Threat Intel V2 Aggregates and analyzes open-source intelligence (OSINT) data from multiple sources to identify threats, validate indicators, and enrich security investigati... | |
| Active Directory Hardening Enterprise-grade API for generating optimized Active Directory security configuration files with hardening best practices. | |
| Aerospace Engineer Professional Aerospace Engineering Career Roadmap Platform that generates personalized career paths and specialization guidance. | |
| Agriculture Research Generates personalized agriculture research career roadmaps based on user experience, skills, and professional goals. | |
| AI Agent Stack Builder Intelligent recommendation system that generates optimal AI agent technology stacks based on project requirements, constraints, and team expertise. | |
| AI Governance, Security & Ethics Readiness Assessment Assess organizational maturity across AI Governance, Security, and Ethics & Compliance domains. | |
| AI Incident Response Generate personalized career roadmaps for AI incident response professionals with specialized learning paths and skill assessments. | |
| AIOT Engineer Professional AI + IoT Engineering Career Roadmap Platform that generates personalized learning paths and specialization guidance for aspiring and current eng... | |
| Amazon EKS Hardening Professional Amazon EKS security configuration generator based on CIS Benchmarks for automated Kubernetes cluster hardening. | |
| Aruba Cx Hardening Professional network switch security configuration generator compliant with CIS Benchmark standards for Aruba CX switches. | |
| Azure AKS Hardening Generates CIS v1.8.0 compliant Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) configurations for security hardening. | |
| Backend Developer Professional Backend Development Career Roadmap Platform that generates personalized learning paths based on experience, skills, and career goals. | |
| Bioinformatics Professional career roadmap platform that generates personalized learning paths for bioinformatics specialists based on skills assessment and career goals. | |
| Breached Email Check Check if an email has appeared in known data breaches and get detailed breach history, severity, compromised data, and remediation recommendations. | |
| Business Analyst Professional Business Analyst career roadmap platform that generates personalized learning paths for IT, Data, and Finance specializations. | |
| CardSnap Digital Business Card Generator — create, manage, and track shareable business cards with analytics. | |
| Certificaty Generate, manage, and download SSL/TLS certificates with token-based verification and multi-domain support. | |
| Chain Of Custody Generates forensic chain of custody HTML reports for evidence management and legal compliance. | |
| Checkpoint Hardening Generates hardened security configurations for Check Point systems based on specified hardening options. | |
| Cisco ASA Hardening Generates hardened Cisco ASA firewall configurations based on security best practices and specified hardening options. | |
| Cisco Firewall Hardening Generate CIS-compliant hardened Cisco ASA/FTD firewall configurations with customizable security options to enforce best practices and reduce manual errors. | |
| Cisco FTD Hardening Professional security configuration generator for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense based on CIS Benchmark v1.0.0. | |
| Cisco IOSXE Hardening Professional Cisco Router & Switch Security Configuration Generator | |
| Cisco IOSXR Hardening Generate security hardening configurations for Cisco IOS XR devices with customizable hardening options. | |
| Cisco NXOS Hardening Generates security hardening configurations for Cisco NX-OS network devices based on specified options. | |
| CISO Career Professional Chief Information Security Officer career development platform that generates personalized roadmaps and specialization guidance. | |
| CISO Daily Security Pulse Comprehensive daily security posture assessment tool that provides CISOs with actionable security insights and metrics. | |
| CISSPly A CISSP exam preparation quiz API that delivers randomized questions, tracks session progress, and evaluates answers in real-time. | |
| Cloud Service Mapper & Decision Advisor AI-powered cloud service mapping and provider recommendation across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. | |
| Compliance Management Multi-framework compliance assessment and management system for evaluating organizational adherence to security and regulatory standards. | |
| Cyber Attack Simulation Professional security testing and vulnerability assessment tool for simulating cyber attacks and generating comprehensive security reports. | |
| CyberSec Roadmap V2 Generates personalized cybersecurity learning paths based on experience level, goals, and learning preferences. | |
| Data Breach Response Generates customized, phased data breach incident response playbooks with tool recommendations and compliance checklists based on your organization's profile. | |
| Data Governance Maturity Comprehensive platform for evaluating organizational data governance maturity across multiple domains with actionable recommendations and improvement roadmaps. | |
| Data Viz Specialist Professional career roadmap platform for aspiring data visualization specialists with personalized learning paths and specialization guidance. | |
| Database Security Audit Comprehensive API for processing database security audits and generating detailed compliance reports across access control, encryption, network security, and... | |
| DevSecOps Roadmap Generates customized DevSecOps implementation roadmaps based on organizational assessment data and maturity level analysis. | |
| Digital Forensics Tools Professional digital forensics tools assessment platform that generates personalized tool recommendations and skill development guidance. |
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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.