# Malinois (remote · malinois.app)

Check a live app you own for public databases, leaked keys and exposed files.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-21

## Components

- remote · `malinois.app`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-malinois-scan/malinois.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-malinois-scan/malinois)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://malinois.app/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-21.

- **Endpoint Security**: 69/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 515 tokens (~257/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 33/100
  - Stability observed for 10 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (50% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Malinois MCP server?

Malinois is a hosted endpoint at https://malinois.app/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http app-malinois-scan 'https://malinois.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-malinois-scan": {
      "url": "https://malinois.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "app-malinois-scan": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://malinois.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.app-malinois-scan]
url = "https://malinois.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "app-malinois-scan": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://malinois.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add app-malinois-scan --url 'https://malinois.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  app-malinois-scan:
    url: "https://malinois.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "app-malinois-scan": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://malinois.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add app-malinois-scan -t streamable-http -u 'https://malinois.app/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-malinois-scan": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://malinois.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-20 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-16 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-14 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-12 (score 69, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-11 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `scan_app` (~303 tokens)

Check a deployed app for data leaks

Runs a passive, outside-in security check of a live web app and returns a letter grade (A–F), each issue in plain language with fix steps, and a report link.
Use when the user asks whether their deployed app is safe, before launch, or after a redeploy to confirm a fix. It checks for publicly readable Supabase/Firebase data, secret keys (Stripe, OpenAI, Supabase service_role…) in client JavaScript, downloadable .env/.git files, source maps, permissive CORS and missing security headers.
Do not use it for apps the user does not own or is not authorized to test, for localhost or private addresses, or to review source code — it only sees what the public URL serves.
Behavior: sends ordinary GET requests like a browser (no login, exploitation or load testing); takes about 10–30 seconds; saves the result as a report page on malinois.app, linked in the response; secrets appear only masked. Each app can be checked at most 20 times per hour.

Input parameters:

- `i_own_this` (boolean, required): Must be true. Set it only after the user has explicitly confirmed they own this app or are authorized to test it; without it the check is refused.
- `lang` (string): Language for the explanations (default: en).
- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) address of the deployed app, e.g. https://my-app.lovable.app (scheme optional).

Output parameters:

- `findings` (array): Most serious first.
- `grade` (string): A (best) to F
- `host` (string)
- `limited` (boolean): True when the app exposed little to a passive check; a good grade is then not proof of safety.
- `platform` (string|null): Detected builder/host, e.g. lovable, replit
- `report_url` (string)
- `score` (number): 0–100

### `explain_finding` (~105 tokens)

Explain a Malinois finding

Returns the plain-language meaning and step-by-step fix for one Malinois finding.
Use it while helping the user fix an issue reported by scan_app, or when they ask what a finding means. Pass the rule_id exactly as scan_app returned it. Read-only, no network, instant.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Language for the explanations (default: en).
- `rule_id` (string, required): The rule_id of a finding, e.g. supabase_missing_rls

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-malinois-scan/malinois#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-21: 73
- 2026-09-20: 73
- 2026-09-19: 72
- 2026-09-18: 72
- 2026-09-17: 71
- 2026-09-16: 71
- 2026-09-15: 70
- 2026-09-14: 70
- 2026-09-13: 69
- 2026-09-12: 69
- 2026-09-11: 68

## Common questions

### What is the Malinois MCP server?

Malinois is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as app.malinois/scan. Check a live app you own for public databases, leaked keys and exposed files. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://malinois.app/mcp).

### Is the Malinois MCP server safe to use?

Malinois scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Malinois MCP server expose?

Malinois exposes 2 tools: scan_app, explain_finding. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 408 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Malinois MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Malinois without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Malinois MCP server still maintained?

Malinois is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 21 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://malinois.app/mcp
- Website: https://malinois.app/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-malinois-scan/malinois.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-malinois-scan/malinois.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-malinois-scan/malinois