Grades are a hygiene check, not a security guarantee.

MCP, MCP server

Darwin Agentic Cloud

Paper: Bounded Execution and the Containment of Agent Traps (preprint, SSRN under review)

Compatibility: Not stated.

Grade C

One Medium finding. Read the findings before installing.

Graded by PlugVetRubric v2

Not a guarantee. A hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, not a security audit.

Rescanned at commit cf6ac2d91a7d.

PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

Why this grade

  • PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED Medium

    Runs shell commands that the manifest or description does not mention.

    infra/aws_runner/batch_deploy.py, line 265 subprocess.run(

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What was checked

Plain notes from the hygiene checks.

  • Permissions

    Concern

    requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution.

    PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

    infra/aws_runner/batch_deploy.py, line 265

    subprocess.run(

    infra/aws_runner/batch_deploy.py, line 289

    subprocess.run(

    infra/aws_runner/batch_deploy.py, line 307

    subprocess.run(["docker", "push", image_ref], check=True)

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    infra/aws_runner/batch_runner.py, line 35

    3. subprocess.run() python3 against the file with declared timeout.

    infra/aws_runner/batch_runner.py, line 177

    proc = subprocess.run(

    infra/aws_runner/deploy.py, line 171

    proc = subprocess.run(

    infra/aws_runner/deploy.py, line 201

    proc = subprocess.run(

    infra/aws_runner/deploy.py, line 223

    proc = subprocess.run(

  • Install and update

    Note

    The docs document an installer that pipes a download into a shell.

    INSTALL_DOCUMENTED_INSTALLER

    QUICKSTART.md, line 39

    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

  • Network

    Concern

    can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address.

    NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST

    darwin/agenticcloud/admin_cli.py, line 223

    with urllib.request.urlopen(keylist_url, timeout=10.0) as resp:

    darwin/agenticcloud/cli.py, line 457

    with urllib.request.urlopen(keylist, timeout=10) as resp:

    darwin/agenticcloud/cli.py, line 819

    with urllib.request.urlopen(keylist, timeout=10) as resp:

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    darwin/agenticcloud/mcp_server.py, line 213

    with urllib.request.urlopen(keylist_url, timeout=10) as resp:

    darwin/agenticcloud/mcp_server.py, line 336

    with urllib.request.urlopen(keylist_url, timeout=10) as resp:

    darwin/agenticcloud/ui.py, line 681

    "1. curl darwin-agentic-cloud.fly.dev/.well-known/substrate-keys.json",

    darwin/agenticcloud/substrate/identity.py, line 291

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=self._timeout) as resp:

    scripts/ceremony-modal-v0.sh, line 34

    command -v curl >/dev/null || { echo "error: curl not found on PATH" >&2; exit 1; }

  • Secrets

    Concern

    reads a credential or environment file.

    SECRETS_ENV_READ SECRETS_PATH_DOTENV

    darwin/agenticcloud/class_keys.py, line 152

    val = os.environ.get("DARWIN_CLASS_KEYS_DIR")

    darwin/agenticcloud/router.py, line 160

    if os.environ.get("MODAL_TOKEN_ID") and os.environ.get("MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET"):

    darwin/agenticcloud/router.py, line 186

    if os.environ.get("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID") and os.environ.get("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"):

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    darwin/agenticcloud/substrate/aws_batch.py, line 356

    access_key_id=os.environ.get("DARWIN_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"),

    darwin/agenticcloud/substrate/aws_batch.py, line 357

    secret_access_key=os.environ.get("DARWIN_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"),

    darwin/agenticcloud/substrate/aws_batch.py, line 358

    session_token=os.environ.get("DARWIN_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN"),

    darwin/agenticcloud/substrate/aws_lambda.py, line 311

    access_key_id=os.environ.get("DARWIN_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"),

    darwin/agenticcloud/substrate/aws_lambda.py, line 312

    secret_access_key=os.environ.get("DARWIN_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"),

    .gitignore, line 81

    .env

    .gitignore, line 82

    .env.local

  • Agent instructions

    Pass

    No instruction to ignore earlier instructions or to hide a step.

  • Obfuscation

    Note

    a file was over the read cap and was not fully read.

    OBFUSCATION_FILE_OVER_READ_CAP

    uv.lock, line 1

    version = 1

  • Licence

    Pass

    A licence file is present (LICENSE).

  • Maintainer activity

    Pass

    The latest commit is within the last 365 days.

Note

Hygiene check of commit cf6ac2d91a7d. requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution. can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address. reads a credential or environment file. a file was over the read cap and was not fully read.

Date and source

Date checked:

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github.com

Commit graded: cf6ac2d91a7da29c15fd5a2f8329ed3354cc32e4

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