sidecar (nedonatelli/sidecar) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 74 out of 100, grade C. It declares 1 tool. No publisher has claimed this listing.

C
Emerging
74/100

sidecar

Free, self-hosted AI coding assistant for VS Code — local Ollama models, Anthropic Claude, or any OpenAI-compatible server. Full agent loop with tool use, inline completions, and MCP support.

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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Who stands behind it

nedonatelli

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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// 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.
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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// known CVEs in dependencies4 medium4 low

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

mediummermaid@11.15.0GHSA-2v8p-3f2j-5mp7

Mermaid XY Charts are vulnerable to an infinite loop DoS

mediummermaid@11.15.0GHSA-3rrr-jr9j-h3q3

Mermaid Architecture diagrams are vulnerable to prototype pollution

mediummermaid@11.15.0GHSA-6x64-9x62-f2gx

Mermaid allows CSS injection applying to sibling elements of the diagram

mediummermaid@11.15.0GHSA-rhh3-jpg6-66xh

Mermaid radar diagrams are vulnerable to DoS

lowmermaid@11.15.0GHSA-c4c3-pg64-4m4v

Mermaid configuration APIs allow prototype pollution

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// 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.
🔐 secretANTHROPIC_API_KEY
configOLLAMA_HOST
🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY
configSIDECAR_BFCL_BACKEND
configSIDECAR_BFCL_CONSTRAINED
configSIDECAR_BFCL_DATA
configSIDECAR_BFCL_MODEL
configSIDECAR_BFCL_N
configSIDECAR_BFCL_OUT
configSIDECAR_BFCL_QUANT
configSIDECAR_BFCL_RAW
configSIDECAR_BFCL_TIMEOUT
configSIDECAR_EVAL_CASE_TIMEOUT
configSIDECAR_EVAL_TRAJECTORY_DIR
configSIDECAR_EVAL_TRIALS
configSIDECAR_GRAMMARS_PATH
configSIDECAR_RAG_REPO
configSIDECAR_RAG_TASK
configSIDECAR_SWE_DATA
configSIDECAR_SWE_HARNESS_VERSION
configSIDECAR_SWE_MAX_ITERS
configSIDECAR_SWE_MODEL
configSIDECAR_SWE_N
configSIDECAR_SWE_OUT
configSIDECAR_SWE_PREDS
configSIDECAR_SWE_QUANT
configSIDECAR_SWE_REPOS
configSIDECAR_SWE_RESOLVED_OFF
configSIDECAR_SWE_RESOLVED_ON
configSIDECAR_SWE_RESOLVED_RATCHET
configSIDECAR_SWE_SCAFFOLD_VERSION
configSIDECAR_SWE_UV
configSIDECAR_VITEST_KIND
// 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

1/1 tools missing one or more hints — run_agent_task (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint). 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.

Production dependencies are patched

4 medium severity in production deps

Run npm audit fix, or upgrade the affected packages to a non-vulnerable version.

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// full audit trail
The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands. Verified publishers can also review each finding and dispute it in one click. Publisher corrections have sharpened several of our checks this month, because the maintainer knows the codebase better than any scanner.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
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