mcpindex-preflight

v0.1.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

mcpindex pre-flight drift gate — the in-path, zero-egress trust-to-act client for MCP tool calls (open core).

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits low risk in terms of network usage, shell execution, and obfuscation. However, its metadata suggests low maintenance and potential new creation for malicious purposes, raising suspicion.

  • Metadata risk due to signs of low maintenance and potential new creation for malicious purposes
  • Overall low risk in other categories but cannot rule out supply-chain attack
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package requires external services.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, indicating no immediate signs of executing system commands.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The package shows signs of low maintenance and could be newly created for malicious purposes.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

Shell / Subprocess Execution

No shell execution patterns detected

Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

Registered Email Domain

No author email provided

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History

No GitHub repository linked

  • No GitHub repository link found
Maintainer History score 8.0

4 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Package uploaded less than 24 hours ago (2026-06-04T23:08:53.000Z)
  • Author "mcpindex.ai" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
  • Package has no PyPI classifiers (low effort / metadata quality)