MCP server official
Risk level
low
10/100

DeepWiki MCP

DeepWiki MCP is an officially published MCP server from Cognition. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

network:outbound

Analysis summary

DeepWiki MCP is an officially published MCP server from Cognition. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

DeepWiki, from the team behind Devin, indexes public repositories into navigable documentation and exposes that index over MCP, so an agent can ask how an unfamiliar codebase works and get a grounded answer rather than a summary of README files.

It declares outbound network access only. As a read-only research tool over public code it is low risk, with the standard retrieval caveat: repository content is written by strangers, and an agent that ingests a hostile repository's documentation is ingesting whatever instructions that documentation contains. Useful precisely when onboarding to code you have not audited — which is also exactly when that caveat matters most.

Why this entry scored 10 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is officially published, trust adjusts the score by -40. The entry declares no high-risk capabilities on its own, so capabilities add nothing. It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 10, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

  • Published by the vendor Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -40

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.