# Conning (pypi · conning)

Run commands on your remote test machines over SSH without the agent ever seeing a secret.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- oci · `ghcr.io/eranyonai/conning`: 42/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/ghcr-io-eranyonai-conning.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/ghcr-io-eranyonai-conning)
- pypi · `conning`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/conning.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/conning)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `conning`
- Version: `0.6.5`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, 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 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 99/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 4 of 42 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to EranYonai/Conning).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).
  - Actively maintained (last published 8 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 58/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 451 tokens (~112/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 63/100
  - Stability observed for 19 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - 0 of 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation; "transfer" implies "transfer" and declares no destructiveHint at all, which the MCP spec reads as destructive by default.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 Conning MCP server?

Conning runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx conning. 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 eranyonai-conning -- uvx conning
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eranyonai-conning": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "conning"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "eranyonai-conning": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "conning"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add eranyonai-conning -- uvx conning
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "eranyonai-conning": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "conning"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add eranyonai-conning --command uvx --arg conning
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  eranyonai-conning:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["conning"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "eranyonai-conning": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "conning"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add eranyonai-conning -t stdio -c uvx -a conning
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eranyonai-conning": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "conning"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 81, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-02 (score 66, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-31 (score 65, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 64, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-10-29 (score 79, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-28 (score 64, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (4)

### `targets` (~48 tokens)

List targets (name, os, shell, tags, mode). filter: 'tag:<tag>' or names. check: probe reachability.

Input parameters:

- `check` (boolean)
- `filter`

### `run` (~110 tokens)

Run cmd (string) or argv on a target, a comma list, or tag:<tag>. Returns exit code first.
Still running after `wait` s (0 = return at once) -> a job id to `read`. Raise max_bytes only when needed.

Input parameters:

- `argv`
- `cmd`
- `cwd`
- `grep`
- `max_bytes` (integer)
- `target` (string, required)
- `timeout` (integer)
- `wait` (integer)

### `read` (~93 tokens)

Page j:<job> (only new lines; wait = long-poll seconds), o:<output> by range/grep, a:<approval>,
or <target>:<path>. signal: INT|TERM|KILL stops a job.

Input parameters:

- `grep`
- `id` (string, required)
- `max_bytes` (integer)
- `range`
- `signal`
- `wait` (integer)

### `transfer` (~45 tokens)

Copy a file or directory between local:<path> and <target>:<path>. Files are verified by sha256.

Input parameters:

- `dest` (string, required)
- `source` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/conning#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 66
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 65
- 2026-10-30: 64
- 2026-10-29: 79
- 2026-10-28: 64
- 2026-10-27: 63
- 2026-10-26: 78
- 2026-10-25: 77
- 2026-10-24: 77
- 2026-10-23: 76
- 2026-10-22: 76
- 2026-10-21: 75
- 2026-10-20: 60
- 2026-10-19: 74
- 2026-10-18: 73
- 2026-10-17: 58

## Common questions

### What is the Conning MCP server?

Conning is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.EranYonai/conning. Run commands on your remote test machines over SSH without the agent ever seeing a secret. This page covers its PyPI package (conning).

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

Conning scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Conning MCP server expose?

Conning exposes 4 tools: targets, run, read, transfer. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 296 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Conning MCP server still maintained?

Conning is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Conning MCP server under?

Conning declares the Apache-2.0 licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/conning/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/conning
- Repository: https://github.com/EranYonai/Conning
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/conning.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/conning.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eranyonai-conning/conning