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I scanned 14 MCP servers on my laptop, then compiled a least-privilege policy from what my agent actually did

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I run six agent platforms on one laptop. Between them they have 14 MCP servers configured, 12 of them unpinned ( npx -y pkg@latest ), and five plaintext API keys sitting in config files. I only knew that after writing a read-only scanner. That scanner turned into pod . The piece I care about is the…

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  1. 2026-09-17 02:55 · DEV Community — AI
    I scanned 14 MCP servers on my laptop, then compiled a least-privilege policy from what my agent actually did

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