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Payroll Ops — Timesheet Audit — Marlowe Partners (301c061b)

com.a2awire/benchmark-timesheet-audit-2026-09-15-301c061b

by com.a2awire· v1.0.1Source: Official MCP Registry

Findings

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

Severity: Critical3 findings

Severity: CriticalStatus: 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: CriticalStatus: 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: CriticalStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-SENSITIVE-PATH-REFERENCE

References credential or key locations

Model-facing text references credential, key or configuration file locations unrelated to the tool's stated purpose.

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Suggested fix: Remove references to credential files, key stores and client configuration files.

Severity: High8 findings

Severity: HighStatus: 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: HighStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-TITLE-EFFECT-MISMATCH

Display title describes a lower-impact action than the name

The tool's display title describes a lower-impact action than its name (for example a read title on a delete tool).

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Suggested fix: Make the title describe the same action as the tool name.

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.

First seen · Last seen

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

Severity: HighStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-TITLE-EFFECT-MISMATCH

Display title describes a lower-impact action than the name

The tool's display title describes a lower-impact action than its name (for example a read title on a delete tool).

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Make the title describe the same action as the tool name.

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.

First seen · Last seen

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

Severity: HighStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-SENSITIVE-PATH-REFERENCE

References credential or key locations

Model-facing text references credential, key or configuration file locations unrelated to the tool's stated purpose.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Remove references to credential files, key stores and client configuration files.

Severity: HighStatus: 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: HighStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-SHELL-PAYLOAD

Shell command patterns in model-facing text

Model-facing text contains shell command patterns such as piping downloads into a shell or recursive deletion.

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Suggested fix: Remove shell commands from descriptions.

Severity: Medium10 findings

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CREDENTIAL-ARGUMENT

Asks the AI model to supply credentials as arguments

A tool parameter asks the AI model to supply a password, token, key or similar credential, which the model can see and repeat.

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Suggested fix: Obtain credentials through server-side configuration or MCP authorization instead of tool arguments.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-ANNOTATION-UNDERCLAIM

Annotations understate what the tool does

The tool declares itself read-only, but its name or description indicates it changes, deletes or runs something. Clients that auto-approve read-only tools would run it without confirmation.

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Suggested fix: Set readOnlyHint to false and destructiveHint to reflect the tool's behavior.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CREDENTIAL-ARGUMENT

Asks the AI model to supply credentials as arguments

A tool parameter asks the AI model to supply a password, token, key or similar credential, which the model can see and repeat.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Obtain credentials through server-side configuration or MCP authorization instead of tool arguments.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CREDENTIAL-ARGUMENT

Asks the AI model to supply credentials as arguments

A tool parameter asks the AI model to supply a password, token, key or similar credential, which the model can see and repeat.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Obtain credentials through server-side configuration or MCP authorization instead of tool arguments.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-ANNOTATION-UNDERCLAIM

Annotations understate what the tool does

The tool declares itself read-only, but its name or description indicates it changes, deletes or runs something. Clients that auto-approve read-only tools would run it without confirmation.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Set readOnlyHint to false and destructiveHint to reflect the tool's behavior.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CREDENTIAL-ARGUMENT

Asks the AI model to supply credentials as arguments

A tool parameter asks the AI model to supply a password, token, key or similar credential, which the model can see and repeat.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Obtain credentials through server-side configuration or MCP authorization instead of tool arguments.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-SHELL-PAYLOAD

Shell command patterns in model-facing text

Model-facing text contains shell command patterns such as piping downloads into a shell or recursive deletion.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Remove shell commands from descriptions.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CROSS-TOOL-REFERENCE

Gives instructions about other tools

Model-facing text gives the AI model instructions about tools that this server does not provide (tool shadowing).

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Suggested fix: Describe only this server's own tools.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CREDENTIAL-ARGUMENT

Asks the AI model to supply credentials as arguments

A tool parameter asks the AI model to supply a password, token, key or similar credential, which the model can see and repeat.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Obtain credentials through server-side configuration or MCP authorization instead of tool arguments.

Severity: MediumStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-CREDENTIAL-ARGUMENT

Asks the AI model to supply credentials as arguments

A tool parameter asks the AI model to supply a password, token, key or similar credential, which the model can see and repeat.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Obtain credentials through server-side configuration or MCP authorization instead of tool arguments.

Severity: Low2 findings

Severity: LowStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-ANNOTATION-UNDERCLAIM

Annotations understate what the tool does

The tool declares itself read-only, but its name or description indicates it changes, deletes or runs something. Clients that auto-approve read-only tools would run it without confirmation.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Set readOnlyHint to false and destructiveHint to reflect the tool's behavior.

Severity: LowStatus: OpenSQ-TOOL-META-INSUFFICIENT

Description too thin to determine behavior

The tool's name and description do not state what it does.

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Suggested fix: Describe the action the tool performs, its target and its side effects.

1 resolved or dismissed finding
Severity: MediumStatus: ResolvedSQ-TOOL-SHELL-PAYLOAD

Shell command patterns in model-facing text

Model-facing text contains shell command patterns such as piping downloads into a shell or recursive deletion.

First seen · Last seen

Suggested fix: Remove shell commands from descriptions.

Status history
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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