ToolTrust
C25/100
Smithery

alphaxiv

mcpsmithery

@Smithery

Search and discuss academic preprints with community commentary. Find papers, read annotations, and track scholarly discourse on arXiv publications.

By Smithery | 21 findings | Scanned 4/15/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.8

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Risk Summary

Needs Approval

Excessive Permissions plus Missing Rate Limits raises enough risk that this tool should not be auto-trusted.

Potential impact: The agent may gain overly broad access to files, network, databases, or execution capabilities.

Recommended action: Keep this tool behind manual approval and avoid unattended runs until the risky capabilities are narrowed or removed.

Suggested policy: keep this tool behind manual approval, do not allow unattended runs, and re-scan after narrowing risky permissions.

Security Findings (21)

  • HighAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×6

    tool declares network permission

    answer_pdf_queriesget_paper_contentread_files_from_github_repositoryembedding_similarity_searchfull_text_papers_search

    tool declares exec permission

    agentic_paper_retrieval

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • MediumAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×3

    tool declares db permission

    answer_pdf_queriesfull_text_papers_search

    tool declares fs permission

    read_files_from_github_repository

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×6

    tool performs network or execution operations but declares no rate-limit, timeout, or retry configuration

    answer_pdf_queriesget_paper_contentread_files_from_github_repositoryembedding_similarity_searchfull_text_papers_searchagentic_paper_retrieval

    Fix: Declare explicit rate-limit, timeout, and retry configuration for all network and execution tools. Implement exponential back-off and surface resource state to the calling agent.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×6

    Tool did not expose metadata.dependencies or repo_url, so supply-chain coverage is limited.

    answer_pdf_queriesget_paper_contentread_files_from_github_repositoryembedding_similarity_searchfull_text_papers_searchagentic_paper_retrieval

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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