# gutsy (pypi · gutsy-mcp)

Local gut check before risky agent actions: calibrated safe/intended probabilities, no API calls.

- Trust score: 65/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- pypi · `gutsy-mcp`: 65/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kouhxp-gutsy/gutsy-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kouhxp-gutsy/gutsy-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `gutsy-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.2`
- 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 2026-10-18.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - 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.
  - 0 of 28 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to kouhxp/gutsy-mcp).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).
  - Actively maintained (last published 10 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 83/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 191 tokens (~191/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **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**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

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

gutsy runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx gutsy-mcp. 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 kouhxp-gutsy -- uvx gutsy-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kouhxp-gutsy": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "gutsy-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "kouhxp-gutsy": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "gutsy-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add kouhxp-gutsy -- uvx gutsy-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add kouhxp-gutsy --command uvx --arg gutsy-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  kouhxp-gutsy:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["gutsy-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "kouhxp-gutsy": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "gutsy-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add kouhxp-gutsy -t stdio -c uvx -a gutsy-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kouhxp-gutsy": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "gutsy-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-14 (score 65, +31)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 0
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: excellent
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: pass

### 2026-10-12 (score 34)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `gut_check` (~191 tokens)

Get a local, calibrated second opinion BEFORE a risky or irreversible action.

Call this before: deleting files or directories (rm -rf), force-pushing or rewriting
git history, dropping or migrating databases, deploying, sending emails or messages,
publishing packages, spending money, or changing permissions or credentials.

Args:
    action: the exact command or action you are about to take.
    context: what you are working on and why; relevant paths, branches, environments.
    user_request: the user's latest instruction, verbatim if possible.

Returns a recommendation ("proceed", "confirm" = ask the user first, or "block") with
the probabilities behind it. If the recommendation is not "proceed", stop and ask the
user. This is advisory, not a security guarantee.

Input parameters:

- `action` (string, required)
- `context` (string)
- `user_request` (string)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 65
- 2026-10-17: 65
- 2026-10-16: 65
- 2026-10-15: 65
- 2026-10-14: 65
- 2026-10-13: 34
- 2026-10-12: 34

## Common questions

### What is the gutsy MCP server?

gutsy is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.kouhxp/gutsy. Local gut check before risky agent actions: calibrated safe/intended probabilities, no API calls. This page covers its PyPI package (gutsy-mcp).

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

gutsy scores 65 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 18 October 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 gutsy MCP server expose?

gutsy exposes 1 tool: gut_check. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 191 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the gutsy MCP server still maintained?

gutsy is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 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 gutsy MCP server under?

gutsy 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/gutsy-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/gutsy-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/kouhxp/gutsy-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kouhxp-gutsy/gutsy-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kouhxp-gutsy/gutsy-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kouhxp-gutsy/gutsy-mcp