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Findings

Detected by Squatch rules from the server's metadata and protocol behavior. Latest completed scan: .

Severity: High1 finding

Severity: HighStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-EXFIL-DIRECTIVE

Asks the AI model to pass conversation data or secrets

Model-facing text instructs the AI model to place conversation content, prompts, tool history or secrets into tool arguments or external destinations.

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Suggested fix: Do not ask the model to include conversation, prompt or credential content in arguments.

Severity: Medium3 findings

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-SERVER-INSTRUCTIONS-INJECTION

Server instructions contain directives to the AI model

The server's instructions field contains directives addressed to the AI model beyond describing how to use the server.

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Suggested fix: Limit server instructions to usage guidance for this server's own tools.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-SERVER-AUTH-NONE-WRITE

State-changing tools available without authentication

The remote server lists state-changing tools without requiring authentication.

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Suggested fix: Require MCP authorization for servers that expose state-changing tools.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-INJECTION-INSTRUCTIONS

Instructions addressed to the AI model

Model-facing text contains instructions addressed to the AI model rather than a description of the tool (for example to override prior instructions, to act before using tools, or to react to trigger phrases).

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Suggested fix: Describe what the tool does and its parameters. Do not include instructions to the model about other tools, the user or the conversation.

Severity: Low2 findings

Severity: LowStatus: OpenSQ-ENDPOINT-OUTSIDE-NAMESPACE

Endpoint host outside the namespace domain

The endpoint host is not inside the domain that the registry namespace was verified for.

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Suggested fix: Host the endpoint under the namespace domain, or verify the endpoint domain with Squatch.

Severity: LowStatus: OpenSQ-REPO-MISSING

No source repository linked

No source repository is linked in the registry entry.

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Suggested fix: Add a repository to server.json.

1 resolved or dismissed finding
Severity: MediumStatus: ResolvedSQ-TOOL-INJECTION-INSTRUCTIONS

Instructions addressed to the AI model

Model-facing text contains instructions addressed to the AI model rather than a description of the tool (for example to override prior instructions, to act before using tools, or to react to trigger phrases).

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Describe what the tool does and its parameters. Do not include instructions to the model about other tools, the user or the conversation.

Status history
  1. ResolvedSquatch

What this scan does not cover

  • Squatch never calls a server's tools, so it cannot see what they actually do at run time.
  • It scans without credentials: tools behind authentication may not be visible.
  • It does not review source code, dependencies or the publisher's infrastructure.
  • A server can change behavior between scans; monitoring compares each scan with the last.
  • Classifications come from tool names, descriptions and schemas, which the publisher controls.

How Squatch scans servers