cortex-board (NG-Bullseye/cortex-board) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 74 out of 100, grade C. It declares 9 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

Emerging

74/100

cortex-board

Item: cortex-board
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

Kanban Board live from Markdown files — FastMCP server + FastAPI + Ionic app. Zero-config, md-native.

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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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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 1 credential: TODOIST_API_KEY

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

// tools this server exposes9 tools

These names and descriptions are the publisher's own, read from the source code. We print them as written. Our assessment is the findings above, not this list.

get_board

Read the whole Kanban board, projected live from ~/cortex/docs/tickets.

get_column

Read one column -> {column, rev, count, tickets}. Live from docs/tickets.

add_ticket

Create a new ticket as a fresh T-NN_slug.md in ~/cortex/docs/tickets.

move_ticket

Move a ticket to another column by rewriting its `**Status:**` line.

update_ticket

Edit an existing ticket's H1 heading (the title). Description and next_step are kept as the long-form body — for those, hand-edit the .md (that is what the .md is for).

remove_ticket

Delete a ticket .md file. For done items prefer `git mv` to archive/<YYYY-MM>/ (Cortex Daily convention) — this tool removes outright.

get_scan_board

Read the whole SYSTEMSCANN board, projected live from ~/cortex/docs/scan-tickets.

add_scan_ticket

Create a new SYSTEMSCANN ticket as SC-NN_slug.md in ~/cortex/docs/scan-tickets.

move_scan_ticket

Move a SYSTEMSCANN ticket to another column by rewriting its `**Status:**` line.

// 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.

configSLOG_MAX_BYTES

configSLOG_RETAIN

configMANAGER_TICKETS_DIR

configCORTEX_BOARD_WWWapp build dir via (default repo-relative app/www).

configCORTEX_BOARD_PORTTruth dir overridable via CORTEX_TICKETS_DIR, API port via ,

configBOARD_BACKEND

🔐 secretTODOIST_API_KEY

configCLAUDE_PROJECTS_DIR

// 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

9/9 tools missing one or more hints — get_board (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_column (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); add_ticket (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +6 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

6/9 tools referenced in tests (67%)

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

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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.

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