MCP server exposing pcapy-ng packet capture functionality
SaferSkills independently audited mcp-pcapy-ng (MCP Server) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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MCP server exposing pcapy-ng packet capture functionality.
mcp-name: io.github.daedalus/mcp-pcapy-ng
pip install mcp-pcapy-ngThe MCP server provides tools for network packet capture using pcapy-ng:
from mcp_pcapy_ng import mcp
mcp.run()Or via command line:
mcp-pcapy-ngfindalldevs - List all available network interfaceslookupdev - Get the default network deviceopen_live - Open a live network interface for packet captureopen_offline - Open a pcap file for readingcreate - Create a packet capture handlecompile - Create a BPF filter programpcap_read - Read packets from a pcap handlepcap_datalink - Get the data link typepcap_setfilter - Attach a BPF filterpcap_getnonblock - Get non-blocking statuspcap_setnonblock - Set non-blocking modeget_dlt_names - Get DLT constant mappingsget_pcap_directions - Get direction constant mappingsget_constants - Get all constantsgit clone https://github.com/daedalus/mcp-pcapy-ng.git
cd mcp-pcapy-ng
pip install -e ".[test]"
# run tests
pytest
# format
ruff format src/ tests/
# lint
ruff check src/ tests/
# type check
mypy src/~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.