Independent deployments will determine whether HoneyMCP’s ghost tools reliably detect compromised agents or clients interacting with MCP servers without creating excessive false positives or operational risk.
state: expiredheat: lowuncertainty: highknownscott: lowmcp-security agentic-security deceptionbarvhaimHoneyMCP
What is this?
HoneyMCP is presented by barvhaim as deception middleware for MCP servers that injects hidden “ghost tools” as honeypots, intended to reveal compromised AI agents or MCP clients when they attempt to invoke those tools. The supplied evidence titles indicate an initial repository commit and a Show HN launch, while the broader snippets establish that MCP deployments face authentication, tool-poisoning, and governance risks. However, none of the supplied snippets documents independent HoneyMCP deployments or establishes its detection reliability, false-positive rate, or operational safety; the web answer’s validation claim is therefore unsupported here.
Why it matters to Scott
This is an unvalidated implementation of security monitoring and behavioral tripwires around MCP, territory already carried by SiloOS and Scott’s MCP security and agent-observability pages. With no independent deployment evidence or measured false-positive and operational costs, it does not yet extend those positions or justify changing what he builds; the radar also already tracks this validation pattern across agent-security middleware cases.
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queries asked of Scott's wikis
- deception tools and honeypots for AI agents
- MCP tool-call monitoring and security boundaries
- agent compromise detection and behavioral tripwires
- false-positive costs in agent security controls
- untrusted MCP servers and tool poisoning
- security middleware for coding-agent harnesses
Measured heat
no measured readings yet — the hourly heat pass fills this in
How the heat travelled
no chain yet — the hourly chain pass fills this in
Evidence (2) — ⭐ canonical anchor
Interpretation history
2026-08-13T13:27:48Z
HoneyMCP has produced no independent deployments, reliability measurements, or operational evidence, and the small engagement increase is empty amplification. The episode has faded without validating the ghost-tool pattern; reopen only if concrete third-party use or evaluation appears.
2026-08-11T12:51:21Z
The latest look adds only minor engagement, not independent deployment or reliability evidence. HoneyMCP remains an interesting but unvalidated MCP deception pattern, with no reason for near-term attention.
2026-08-11T12:42:15Z
grounded: known/low — This is an unvalidated implementation of security monitoring and behavioral tripwires around MCP, territory already carried by SiloOS and Scott’s MCP security a
2026-08-11T12:39:17Z
origin walked (codex/luna, conf 0.98): anchor hn.story.49256863 -> echo.github.4159a771a9 by Bar Haim
2026-08-11T12:37:36Z
case created — The open-source honeypot supplies a distinct and testable defensive pattern for the actively developing MCP security surface.
Decision trace
- 08-13 23:27expireHoneyMCP has produced no independent deployments, reliability measurements, or operational evidence, and the small engagement increase is empty amplification. The episode has faded without validating
- 08-13 23:27alert_silentThe only delta is a trivial score increase with no comments or substantive evidence, so there is nothing consequential to surface or hold for.
- 08-13 23:27alert_routeThe only delta is a trivial score increase with no comments or substantive evidence, so there is nothing consequential to surface or hold for.
- 08-11 22:51repriceThe latest look adds only minor engagement, not independent deployment or reliability evidence. HoneyMCP remains an interesting but unvalidated MCP deception pattern, with no reason for near-term atte
- 08-11 22:51alert_silentNo consequential new event occurred; the small score increase does not address detection reliability, false positives, or operational safety and can wait for routine tracking.
- 08-11 22:51alert_routeNo consequential new event occurred; the small score increase does not address detection reliability, false positives, or operational safety and can wait for routine tracking.
- 08-11 22:48alert_silentHoneyMCP’s initial repository establishes that the ghost-tool deception middleware exists, but there is no independent deployment evidence, measured detection reliability, false-positive rate, or oper
- 08-11 22:48alert_routeHoneyMCP’s initial repository establishes that the ghost-tool deception middleware exists, but there is no independent deployment evidence, measured detection reliability, false-positive rate, or oper
- 08-11 22:42groundThis is an unvalidated implementation of security monitoring and behavioral tripwires around MCP, territory already carried by SiloOS and Scott’s MCP security and agent-observability pages. With no in
- 08-11 22:39promote_anchororigin walk conf 0.98
- 08-11 22:37createThe open-source honeypot supplies a distinct and testable defensive pattern for the actively developing MCP security surface.