A thin FastMCP 3.x aggregator federating the GeneFoundry -link MCP fleet behind one endpoint.
The publisher performed an authenticated act of publication — proving control of a namespace in the official MCP registry, or appearing in a first-party catalogue an operator curates. That establishes WHO published it. It is not a security finding, and attested artifacts carry Flagged verdicts too.
80 critical findings reported by cisco-skill-scanner, agent-audit-kit, 1 of them in the installed artifact. The composite score alone does not reflect this — read the per-scanner reports below.
This artifact ships from 2 sources and their verdicts differ. The worst is github (Flagged). Installing from a cleaner source does not mean the others are safe — check the source you actually install from.
github: https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router, 318 findings
Choose your runtime: the CLI writes the mcpServers config entry for that target.
nerlo install --target claude-code -- genefoundry-router
Install respects the composite badge: Clean proceeds, Caution prompts for confirmation, and Flagged is refused. Write operations require an API token.
6 of 11 scanners examined this package. The rest do not apply to it — language, ecosystem and packaging decide which analyzers can say anything, and a scanner that cannot examine an artifact reports nothing rather than passing it.
v1.4.0
0 findings · 0.9s
v2.0.11
143 findings · 31.0s
v0.3.26
151 findings · 24.6s
v0.1.0
4 findings · 31.3s
v0.1.0
6 findings · 31.3s
v0.1.0
1 finding · 21.7s
No report in this scan: capslock, govulncheck, osv-scanner, trivy, trivy_image.
2 scans on record. Every scan's full results are retained immutably for 24 months.
| Completed | Composite | Change | Scanners | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | Scan Halted | — | agentshield: completecisco-skill-scanner: completeagent-audit-kit: completenerlo-behavioral: completenerlo-install-instruction: completenerlo-multi-source: complete | rejected |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Scan Halted | — | agentshield: completecisco-skill-scanner: completeagent-audit-kit: completenerlo-behavioral: completenerlo-install-instruction: completenerlo-multi-source: complete | rejected |
Findings in files this artifact installs stand as reported; a model re-read the rest and said which ones it believes are false positives. This is a second opinion published beside the evidence, not a correction to it: the per-scanner reports above are unchanged, every dismissed finding is still listed there at its original severity, and the score and the Flagged badge are computed from those raw severities alone. Nothing below moved them.
Out of 305 findings across every scanner that examined this package. 79 of 80 findings rated critical by their scanner were among the dismissals.
Not reviewed is not the same as clean. Those 2 findings stand exactly as their scanners reported them, at full severity, as they would have without this review.
Two keys had to turn. The model had to name a reason from a fixed list of six, and a deterministic check of ours — over which files this artifact actually installs — had to independently agree. Anything it could not corroborate is in “not reviewed” above, at full severity.
96 Documentation or example — The match is in documentation or sample code, confirmed by our own check to be outside the installed artifact.
Rules: PROMPT_INJECTION_IGNORE_INSTRUCTIONS, RESOURCE_ABUSE_INFINITE_LOOP, AAK-HEALTHCARE-AI-005 and 9 more · Files: /repo/docs/plans/SKILL.md, /repo/docs/specs/SKILL.md, /repo/docs/conformance/behaviour.py and 64 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner, agent-audit-kit, nerlo-install-instruction
61 Test or fixture file — The match is in a test or fixture. Our own check confirmed the file is not part of what gets installed.
Rules: SECRET_GITHUB_TOKEN, AAK-SECRET-008, AAK-SECRET-003 and 12 more · Files: /repo/tests/release/test_content.py, /repo/tests/release/test_content_adversarial.py, /repo/tests/release/test_content_tar_metadata.py and 20 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner, agent-audit-kit
60 Agent instruction file — The match is in a file that instructs an AI coding agent — a CLAUDE.md or similar. It is documentation of intent, and our own check confirmed it is not part of what gets installed.
Rules: AAK-AGENT-001 · Files: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md · reported by agent-audit-kit
These findings are in files this artifact installs and are not placeholder values. No false-positive basis can be corroborated for such a finding, so this review never dismisses one; they were not sent to the model and stand at their scanner's severity.
30 YARA_capability_inflation_generic
Files: /repo/ci/release-candidate-fleet.json, /repo/genefoundry_router/data/fleet-baseline.json · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
11 MANIFEST_MISSING_LICENSE
Files: /repo/.claude/skills/tool-search-change/SKILL.md, /repo/.claude/skills/auth-change/SKILL.md, /repo/.claude/skills/backend-registry-change/SKILL.md and 8 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
7 DATA_EXFIL_NETWORK_REQUESTS
Files: /repo/scripts/audit_container_controls.py, /repo/scripts/mcp_probe.py · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
5 AAK-MCP-018
Files: genefoundry_router/auth.py, genefoundry_router/server.py, genefoundry_router/config.py and 2 more · reported by agent-audit-kit
4 AAK-HEALTHCARE-AI-004
Files: CHANGELOG.md, fleet-metadata.yaml, servers.yaml and 1 more · reported by agent-audit-kit
4
The model could have called any of these a false positive and did not.
5 AAK-SECRET-004
Files: tests/release/test_content_tar_metadata.py, tests/release/test_content_adversarial.py, docs/conformance/contract_truth.py · reported by agent-audit-kit
5 YARA_prompt_injection_unicode_steganography
Files: /repo/tests/integration/test_notfound_guard.py, /repo/docs/plans/SKILL.md, /repo/docs/specs/SKILL.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
2 The model called these false positives and our own check did not agree, so the dismissal was refused.
Rules: HIDDEN_DATA_FILE · Files: /repo/docker/.env.patient-data.example, /repo/.env.docker.example · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
Critical shell execution and high credential exposure risks
The artifact includes critical shell execution capability in `scripts/snapshot_catalog.py`. High severity findings indicate credential exposure in `genefoundry_router/auth.py` and `docs/conformance/contract_truth.py`. Additionally, there is potential for secrets to be sent over the network in `scripts/audit_container_controls.py` and `scripts/mcp_probe.py`, and resource abuse in `genefoundry_router/limits.py`.
Concern level assessed by the review: Critical. This is the review's scale, not the registry badge.
Reviewed by gemini-2.5-flash. The model sees the findings, not your code, and cannot change a score.
Files: /repo/.loc-allowlist, /repo/.review-rollup.md, /repo/.env.dev and 1 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
4 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-py-secret-to-network-egress
Files: /repo/scripts/audit_container_controls.py, /repo/scripts/mcp_probe.py · reported by nerlo-behavioral
2 RESOURCE_ABUSE_INFINITE_LOOP
Files: /repo/genefoundry_router/limits.py, /repo/scripts/mcp_probe.py · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 AAK-OAUTH-001
Files: genefoundry_router/auth.py · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-OAUTH-005
Files: scripts/mcp_probe.py · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-STDIO-001
Files: scripts/snapshot_catalog.py · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-TASKS-003
Files: genefoundry_router/devtools/discoverability.py · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 EXCESSIVE_FILE_COUNT
Files: /repo/. · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 nerlo-malware-obfuscated_blob
Files: github_release:trusted-root.json · reported by nerlo-malware
1 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-pipe-to-shell
Files: /repo/README.md · reported by nerlo-install-instruction
1 SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION
Files: /repo/SKILL.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 TOOL_ABUSE_UNDECLARED_NETWORK
Files: /repo/repo/.review-rollup.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner