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🛡️ MCP Defender is a desktop app that protects AI apps like Cursor from a variety of attacks.

🚦 All MCP tool call requests and responses from AI apps are automatically proxied through MCP Defender.

🔎 The intercepted data is then checked against a set of signatures.

🔐 If anything harmful is detected, MCP Defender alerts you and asks if you want to allow or block the tool call.

Demos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/363ae2b1-e395-4cdc-b5ca-e9862baf89c3

Quick Start

Download MCP Defender for Mac

Alternatively you can clone the git repo, and run it as follows:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start app
npm start

Which apps are automatically protected?

MCP Defender protects Cursor, Claude, Visual Studio Code and Windsurf.

License

MCP Defender is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 license. For more details, see the .