mcp-local-reader

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// key findings

✅

6 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

1 read-only tool verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: LLM_VISION_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configCACHE_ROOT_DIR

configTOTAL_CACHE_SIZE_MB— 500 # Unified cache limit

configCACHE_EXPIRE_DAYS— 30 # Cache retention

configLLM_VISION_BASE_URL

🔐 secretLLM_VISION_API_KEY— sk-your-api-key-here

configLLM_VISION_MODEL— gpt-4o # or qwen-vl-plus

configLLM_VERBOSE

configFILE_READER_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB— 20 # File size limit

configARCHIVE_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB

configARCHIVE_MAX_TOTAL_SIZE_MB

configARCHIVE_MAX_FILES_LIMIT

configARCHIVE_EXTRACT_TIMEOUT

configLOCAL_FILE_READER_CACHE_SIZE_MB

configLOG_LEVEL— ❌ INFO Logging level

configFILE_READER_MIN_CONTENT_LENGTH

configLOCAL_FILE_ALLOWED_DIRECTORIES— "": "/Users/username/Documents,/Users/username/Downloads"

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commit: 65feac8a426fe35eb59d469b22b787b4823a95fc

code hash: 816b763002d63e33bf6f741f17cda5c5d4f27344b1c3bad6b46200016a6479be

verified: 6/23/2026, 10:43:23 AM

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