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6 days ago

llm-sidecar

MCP server for grounded, cited AI: answers questions from live web sources, verifies claims, fact-checks documents, searches and reads URLs, summarises, classifies, and extracts fields, with usage tracking and status.

→ awaistechnologist/llm-sidecar· listed on glama

Emerging. No concerning findings. Grades remain capped until the project builds reputation through adoption. Grades reflect the full trust pyramid: code, verification depth, and reputation. New projects cap at C until adoption is earned.

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Source: Glama

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// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
✅
Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
🔐
You'll be asked for 2 credentials: OPENROUTER_API_KEY, LLM_SIDECAR_TOKEN
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configLLM_SIDECAR_HOME
configLLM_SIDECAR_CACHE
🔐 secretOPENROUTER_API_KEYUnset means local-only. Settable from the dashboard.
configOLLAMA_HOST
configLLM_SIDECAR_BUDGETfree free \ cheap \ best
configLLM_SIDECAR_SEARCH_PROVIDERauto auto \ ddg \ searxng
configSEARXNG_URLAlready running one? Point at it.
configLLM_SIDECAR_HOST/ _PORT 127.0.0.1 / 4001 Daemon bind
configLLM_SIDECAR_PORT
🔐 secretLLM_SIDECAR_TOKENRequire Authorization: Bearer …
configLLM_SIDECAR_NO_UIOpt out entirely with llm-sidecar serve --no-ui (or );
configLLM_SIDECAR_NO_CACHE/ _NO_LEDGER — Turn those off
configLLM_SIDECAR_NO_LEDGER
configLLM_SIDECAR_DATA
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

12/12 tools missing one or more hints — search_web (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); answer_question (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); read_url (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +9 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool test coverage

5/12 tools referenced in tests (42%)

Write tests that reference each tool by name so every tool has at least one test.

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// full audit trail
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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.
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commit: 23f8d7abeaf615771e06dbcfcdcd8eb4b6cad576
code hash: c0163f4498e95a582ba5dbc4343e8016867be91255148539d7b98ba1cce86fcd
verified: 8/13/2026, 7:40:44 AM
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