| FMRS | 52 / 100 · D | 80 / 100 · B | 79 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 8 / 20 | 14 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 12 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 11 / 20 | 17 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 13 / 20 | 15 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 8 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 15 / 20 |
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| Best for | - Teams already using GitGuardian SaaS (US/EU) or a self-hosted instance
- Developers who want secret scanning, incident triage, and remediation inside their IDE or chat client
- Teams that want to automate secret remediation via pull requests
- Users of MCP clients that support type: http and can complete an OAuth flow
- CI/CD, scripts, or airgapped environments that need local stdio with a PAT
| - Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
- Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
| - Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
- Teams performing supply chain security assessments
- Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
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| Not for | - Users who do not use GitGuardian and do not want to connect to its API
- Users limited to older MCP clients without type: http support who cannot use the local stdio fallback
- Users expecting the server to work with no authentication or scope configuration
- Hosted-service users who do not want requests to transit mcp.gitguardian.com (they should self-host instead)
| - Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
- Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
| - Projects outside the NPM ecosystem (e.g., pure Python/Go)
- Environments without network access to deps.dev, OSV.dev, and the npm registry
- Scenarios requiring maintenance by an official upstream vendor
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| Required permissions | - Requires a GitGuardian access token (OAuth or PAT); the exposed tool set is determined by the token's OAuth scopes
- Local stdio mode uses the GITGUARDIAN_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable
- Self-hosted OAuth proxy mode proxies /authorize, /token, and /register to your GitGuardian dashboard
- PAT lifetime defaults to 30 days and is configurable via GITGUARDIAN_TOKEN_LIFETIME
- The server defaults to read-only-leaning permissions
| - Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
- Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
| - Network access to the NPM registry and external services (deps.dev, OSV.dev, OpenSSF, npms.io, GitHub)
- Read access to workspace lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock., yarn.lock) for cache invalidation
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| Risks and side effects | - MCP servers are an emerging technology; agents act on your behalf and under your responsibility
- In hosted mode, requests transit mcp.gitguardian.com in addition to api.gitguardian.com
- Token scopes determine which tools the agent can use; overly broad scopes increase blast radius
- Code-fix automation opens pull requests, so agent actions should be reviewed
- Browser-driven OAuth in stdio mode is deprecated and stores the PAT on disk; that code path will be removed in a future release
| - The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
- Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
| - Third-party READMEs and changelogs are untrusted external content; they are wrapped in tags with _meta flags but should still be handled cautiously
- Depends on availability and accuracy of external services
- Batch requests are capped at 25 packages to prevent registry enumeration; larger sets require batching
- Third-party open source project, not officially maintained by NPM or Anthropic
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| Supported clients | Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Windsurf, Zed | Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Smithery.ai |
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| Tools | 4 | 2 | 19 |
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