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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.
284 critical findings reported by cisco-skill-scanner, agent-audit-kit, 3 of them in the installed artifact. The composite score alone does not reflect this — read the per-scanner reports below.
github: https://github.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp, 436 findings
Choose your runtime: the CLI writes the mcpServers config entry for that target.
nerlo install --target claude-code -- web-researcher-mcp
Install respects the composite badge: Clean proceeds, Caution prompts for confirmation, and Flagged is refused. Write operations require an API token.
5 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
2 findings · 0.5s
v2.0.11
62 findings · 13.5s
v0.3.26
320 findings · 11.7s
v0.1.0
3 findings · 56.4s
v0.1.0
24 findings · 56.5s
v0.1.0
This scanner found nothing in this artifact that it assesses. What each scanner covers
0 findings · 21.2s
No report in this scan: capslock, govulncheck, osv-scanner, trivy, trivy_image.
1 scan 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 ·n/a: not applicable | 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 411 findings across every scanner that examined this package. 281 of 284 findings rated critical by their scanner were among the dismissals.
Not reviewed is not the same as clean. Those 4 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.
276 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: CLAUDE.md · reported by agent-audit-kit
34 Documentation or example — The match is in documentation or sample code, confirmed by our own check to be outside the installed artifact.
Rules: YARA_credential_harvesting_generic, PROMPT_INJECTION_UNRESTRICTED_MODE, opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-fetch-raw-then-run and 10 more · Files: /repo/docs/SECURITY.md, /repo/docs/SECURITY_AND_COMPLIANCE.md, /repo/docs/SKILL.md and 14 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner, nerlo-install-instruction, agent-audit-kit
12 CI or editor configuration — The match is in build, CI or editor configuration, confirmed by our own check to be outside the installed artifact.
Rules: AAK-GHA-IMMUTABLE-001 · Files: .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml · reported by agent-audit-kit
5 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: YARA_script_injection_generic, YARA_code_execution_generic · Files: /repo/internal/content/content_test.go, /repo/internal/content/sanitize_fuzz_test.go, /repo/internal/tools/relevance_eval_live_test.go · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
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.
10 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-fetch-raw-then-run
Files: /repo/README.md, /repo/install.ps1, /repo/install.sh and 1 more · reported by nerlo-install-instruction
9 AAK-HEALTHCARE-AI-004
Files: llms-install.md, README.md, .claude-plugin/plugin.json and 6 more · reported by agent-audit-kit
9 DATA_EXFIL_NETWORK_REQUESTS
Files: /repo/python/web_researcher_mcp/_server.py, /repo/python/web_researcher_mcp/client.py, /repo/scripts/gen_python_client.py · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
8 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-pipe-to-shell
Files: /repo/README.md, /repo/install.sh, /repo/llms-install.md · reported by nerlo-install-instruction
7 PIPELINE_TAINT_FLOW
Files: /repo/llms-install.md, /repo/SKILL.md, /repo/README.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
5
2 The model did not answer for these findings.
Rules: opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-run-bundled-artifact · Files: /repo/docs/CICD.md · reported by nerlo-install-instruction
2 The model called these false positives and our own check did not agree, so the dismissal was refused.
Rules: skills-missing-governance-commands/rebuild-local.md, skills-missing-telemetry-commands/rebuild-local.md · Files: commands/rebuild-local.md · reported by agentshield
Critical risks: shell execution, credential exposure, and remote code execution.
The artifact contains critical findings related to potential command injection in Dockerfiles and a compound fetch-and-execute operation in a shell script. High-severity findings indicate the presence of hardcoded credentials that could be exposed via network egress, and instructions for fetching and executing remote code or piping to a shell. These capabilities present significant security risks.
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: internal/audit/mask.go, internal/scraper/youtube.go, internal/scraper/bluesky.go · reported by agent-audit-kit
5 MANIFEST_MISSING_LICENSE
Files: /repo/SKILL.md, /repo/lenses/SKILL.md, /repo/decks/SKILL.md and 2 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
4 HIDDEN_DATA_FILE
Files: /repo/.gitguardian.yaml, /repo/packaging/aur/.SRCINFO, /repo/.golangci.yml and 1 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
3 SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION
Files: /repo/SKILL.md, /repo/lenses/SKILL.md, /repo/decks/SKILL.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
3 UNANALYZABLE_BINARY
Files: /repo/decks/compliance/compliance-deck.pdf · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
2 LOW_ANALYZABILITY
Files: /repo/decks, /repo/decks/compliance · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
2 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-go-secret-to-network-egress
Files: /repo/internal/documents/docx.go, /repo/internal/documents/pptx.go · reported by nerlo-behavioral
2 YARA_command_injection_generic
Files: /repo/Dockerfile, /repo/Dockerfile.release · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 AAK-HEALTHCARE-AI-005
Files: CONTRIBUTING.md · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-MCP-006
Files: .mcp.json · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-SUPPLY-004
Files: pyproject.toml · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 COMPOUND_EXTRACT_EXECUTE
Files: /repo/bin/install.sh · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 COMPOUND_FETCH_EXECUTE
Files: /repo/scripts/update-packaging.sh · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 EXCESSIVE_FILE_COUNT
Files: /repo/. · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 FILE_MAGIC_MISMATCH
Files: /repo/overrides/main.html · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-go-hardcoded-external-egress
Files: /repo/internal/search/tavily.go · reported by nerlo-behavioral
1 OVERSIZED_FILE
Files: /repo/cmd/web-researcher-mcp/web-researcher-mcp · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 TOOL_ABUSE_SYSTEM_PACKAGE_INSTALL
Files: /repo/scripts/sign-windows.sh · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 TOOL_ABUSE_UNDECLARED_NETWORK
Files: /repo/repo/ARCHITECTURE.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
Showing 25 of 31; the rest are in the per-scanner reports above.