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+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+      - run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
+      - name: Run tests (incl. the structural no-egress invariant)
+        run: pytest -q
+
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip build
+      - run: python -m build
+      - name: Install the built wheel in a clean env and smoke-test the CLI
+        run: |
+          python -m venv /tmp/smoke
+          /tmp/smoke/bin/pip install dist/*.whl
+          /tmp/smoke/bin/mcpgawk --help

mcpgawk-0.1.0/.gitignore

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+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+.venv/
+venv/
+*.egg-info/
+dist/
+build/
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# dev-only QA harness
+assets/brand/_qa.html

mcpgawk-0.1.0/BRAND.md

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+# mcpgawk — brand spec (Nativerse / gawk.dev family)
+
+mcpgawk is a **gawk.dev-family** open tool under **Nativerse Ventures**. Its identity inherits the Nativerse
+system — it does **not** invent its own. (The legacy "gawk black/teal" is superseded by the royal-blue convergence.)
+
+## Palette (locked to Nativerse tokens — `nativerse-site/styles.css`)
+| Token | Hex | Use |
+|---|---|---|
+| Surface (dark) | `#16160F` | product / social / OG background — the family is dark on these surfaces |
+| Accent — royal blue | `#2A33C2` | the **only** brand accent (`--blue`) |
+| Blue strong | `#1F2799` | pressed / deeper accent (`--blue-strong`) |
+| Accent on dark | `#7B83F0` | same hue lightened for legibility on `#16160F` |
+| Status — live/open | `#36C28B` | semantic green only (the `●` status dot; "clean / scanned / open") |
+| Ink | `#16160F` on light; near-white `#ECEBE3` on dark | text |
+| Rules | hairline grey | dividers only |
+
+One accent. Semantic green for status only. Hairline rules. Generous whitespace. Editorial restraint.
+
+## Type (the family stack — Fontshare)
+- **Wordmark & display:** **Sentient** (`--font-display`, serif) — the lowercase `mcpgawk` wordmark is set in
+  Sentient, exactly like the parent `nativerse` wordmark, so it sits flush in the family. **Not monospace.**
+  (Raw mono for the name read out of place next to the Sentient-led family — corrected.)
+- **Text/UI:** **Supreme** (`--font-text`, geometric sans).
+- **Data/proof/kickers:** **Tabular** (`--font-mono`) — this is where mono lives: the scan output, numbers,
+  labels. Reserved for data, never the name.
+
+## Mark
+- **Primary mark = the real Nativerse interlocking-N hex-shield** (`assets/brand/nativerse-mark.svg`, single
+  fill `#2A33C2`). Per family rule: **recoloured white on dark surfaces**, `#2A33C2` on light.
+- **Lockup** = mark + `mcpgawk` Sentient wordmark (horizontal). Wordmark-led (Linear/Stripe/Vercel discipline).
+- **Favicon / avatar** = the white mark on a `#2A33C2` tile (the documented family avatar).
+- The CLI's `●` status dot (green `#36C28B`) stays as an in-product motif in data contexts — not the logo.
+
+## Lockups needed
+1. Wordmark `● mcpgawk` — light-on-dark (primary, product surfaces) + dark-on-white (docs).
+2. Favicon — the `●` dot.
+3. GitHub social preview (1280×640) — dark surface, `● mcpgawk`, one-line promise, hairline rule.
+
+## Production note (before push)
+The `wordmark-*.svg` and `social-preview.svg` reference **Sentient**, which loads on the site but **not** in
+GitHub's README `<img>` sandbox or on PyPI (they'll show the serif fallback). For pixel-true assets, render
+them through the family pipeline — `~/nativerse-site/brand/logo/render-lockups.sh` bakes Sentient in — and
+commit the resulting **PNGs** (plus a `.png` social preview, which GitHub's social-preview upload requires).
+Until then the SVGs are correct in direction (real mark + serif wordmark), just not the exact face on GitHub.
+
+## Voice
+Precise, honest, terminal-native, no hype. "gawk at it before you trust it." Trust through reproducibility,
+never adjectives.

mcpgawk-0.1.0/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to mcpgawk. Format: [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/); versioning: [SemVer](https://semver.org/).
+
+## [0.1.0] — unreleased
+
+Initial release. Local-first MCP measurement.
+
+### Added
+- `mcpgawk scan` over stdio, streamable-HTTP, and SSE via the official `mcp` SDK (protocol-version negotiated).
+- Cost **index** (named tokenizer) + **EXACT** capability facts (write / exfil-capable / annotations) + **integrity pin**.
+- **Bounded** heuristic signals (0-FP on the tested corpus, never verdicts): injection-shaped descriptions
+  (tools and prompts), cross-server name shadowing, Server-Card under-declaration.
+- `--track` rug-pull / drift monitor with a local history store.
+- Server Card reader (`/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json`) — reads the card when present, checks
+  declared-vs-measured, falls back to live-connect. Fetched with no auth and no redirect-following.
+- Label output as a Server-Card extension (`x-mcpgawk`); `--json` for machine consumption.
+
+### Security
+- Measurement layers import no network library — cannot egress by construction (enforced by test).
+- Per-server timeout so a hung server degrades to one error row.

mcpgawk-0.1.0/CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to mcpgawk
+
+Thanks for helping. mcpgawk is small on purpose. Two rules are non-negotiable — a PR that breaks
+either will not be merged.
+
+## The two invariants
+
+1. **No inventory egress.** The measurement layers (`measure`, `label`, `signals`, `drift`, `history`)
+   must never import a network library or send anything anywhere. Network lives only in `probe.py` (the
+   protocol client talking to the scanned server) and `servercard.py` (public, unauthenticated card
+   fetch — no auth headers, no redirect-following). A test enforces this; don't weaken it.
+
+2. **Zero false positives, or the signal is cut.** Any new BOUNDED signal must be *precise* (it fires on
+   language aimed at the model, never on legitimate capability keywords) and must score **0 false
+   positives** on the test corpus before it ships. A capability keyword (`url`, `delete`, `base64`) is a
+   *fact* (`measure.py`), never a signal. A signal is a pointer for a human, never a verdict.
+
+## Also
+- Keep the EXACT / INDEX / BOUNDED tiers separate — never let a heuristic contaminate a fact.
+- Cost is a **named tokenizer index**, not an absolute count — keep it labelled honestly.
+- Add a test with every change. Run: `uv run --extra dev --with mcp --with tiktoken --with httpx python -m pytest -q`.
+- No telemetry, no account, no "phone home" — ever. That is the whole point of the tool.
+
+## Dev setup
+```bash
+git clone <repo> && cd mcpgawk
+uv run --with mcp --with tiktoken --with httpx python -m mcpgawk scan examples/mcp.json
+```
+
+By contributing you agree your contribution is licensed under Apache-2.0.

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mcpgawk-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: mcpgawk
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Local-first MCP measurement — gawk at an MCP server before you trust it. No inventory ever leaves your machine.
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://mcp.gawk.dev
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://mcp.gawk.dev
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/gawk-dev/mcpgawk
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+Keywords: agents,cli,llm,local-first,mcp,model-context-protocol,security,tokenizer,tokens
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Environment :: Console
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Topic :: Security
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.27
+Requires-Dist: mcp<2,>=1.28
+Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.7
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: pytest-asyncio>=0.23; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == 'dev'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+<p align="center">
+  <picture>
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="assets/brand/wordmark-dark.png">
+    <img alt="mcpgawk by nativerse" src="assets/brand/wordmark-light.png" width="320">
+  </picture>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><em>gawk at it before you trust it.</em></p>
+
+# mcpgawk
+
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcpgawk.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcpgawk/)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/mcpgawk.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcpgawk/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![CI](https://github.com/gawk-dev/mcpgawk/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/gawk-dev/mcpgawk/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![No egress](https://img.shields.io/badge/inventory-never%20uploaded-brightgreen.svg)](#guarantees)
+
+**gawk at an MCP server before you trust it.** A single, local-first command that connects to any
+[Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server and measures what it will cost and
+expose — **without the server's inventory ever leaving your machine.**
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="assets/brand/demo.gif" alt="mcpgawk scanning an MCP server — tools, token cost, and capability flags, locally" width="760">
+</p>
+<p align="center"><sub>Real output. Reproducible on your machine — no account, nothing uploaded.</sub></p>
+
+## Why
+
+Every MCP server you connect dumps *all* its tool definitions into your model's context at connect
+time — whether you use one tool or none. That's a hidden **token tax** and an unvetted **trust
+surface**. mcpgawk measures both, **locally**, and never phones home about what it saw.
+
+## How it's different
+
+- **vs. cloud scanners** (e.g. Snyk/Invariant `mcp-scan`) — they upload your inventory to a server and
+  gate the verdict. mcpgawk runs entirely on your machine; nothing is uploaded, ever.
+- **vs. lazy-load gateways** — they cut tokens but tell you nothing about the *risk* surface.
+- **mcpgawk does both** — cost **and** trust — locally, reproducibly, in one command.
+
+## Features
+
+- 🔌 **Any transport** — stdio, streamable-HTTP, SSE, and OAuth remotes (via the `mcp-remote` bridge).
+- 💸 **Token cost index** — exactly what each tool adds to your context at connect.
+- 🧾 **Capability facts** — write / exfil-capable / declared annotations, straight from the schema.
+- 📌 **Integrity pin + drift** — catch a server that silently rewrites its tools (`--track`).
+- 🚩 **Bounded signals** — injection-shaped descriptions, cross-server shadowing, under-declaring Server Cards — pointers for a human, never verdicts.
+- 🔒 **Zero egress, by construction** — the measurement layers import no network library. Enforced by a test.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install mcpgawk        # or: uv tool install mcpgawk
+```
+
+## Use
+
+```bash
+mcpgawk scan mcp.json                                              # a whole config
+mcpgawk scan --stdio "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /tmp"
+mcpgawk scan --http https://host/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
+mcpgawk scan --sse  https://host/sse
+mcpgawk scan mcp.json --track                                     # record + detect rug-pulls over time
+mcpgawk scan mcp.json --json                                      # machine-readable labels
+```
+
+## What it reports
+
+- **Cost index** — tokens each tool adds at connect (named tokenizer; a comparable index, not an
+  absolute Claude count).
+- **Capability facts** — write/mutating, exfil-capable, declared annotations.
+- **Integrity pin** — a hash that changes if the server silently rewrites its tools; `--track`
+  turns it into rug-pull detection over time.
+- **Bounded signals** — precise, low-false-positive pointers *for a human to review*, never verdicts:
+  injection-shaped descriptions (tools **and** prompts), cross-server name shadowing, and public
+  Server Cards that under-declare what the server actually exposes.
+
+## Guarantees
+
+- **No inventory egress.** The only network is the protocol client talking to the server you point
+  it at. The measurement layers import no network library — they *cannot* egress by construction
+  (enforced by a test). Public Server Card discovery is fetched with no auth and no redirect-following.
+- **Facts ≠ heuristics.** Exact capability facts and the token index never mix with the bounded
+  heuristic signals — separate in code, separate in output.
+- **Reproducible.** One command, identical numbers.
+- **Rides protocol evolution.** Built on the official `mcp` SDK, which negotiates the protocol version.
+
+## Develop
+
+```bash
+uv run --extra dev --with mcp --with tiktoken --with httpx python -m pytest -q
+```
+
+## Contributing
+
+Issues and PRs welcome. Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) first, and see the design
+boundaries in [THREAT-MODEL.md](THREAT-MODEL.md). Security reports go through [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md)
+(privately, not a public issue).
+
+## License
+
+**Apache-2.0** — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). Part of the **nativerse** · gawk.dev family. The value is in the
+repo, not a cloud.

mcpgawk-0.1.0/README.md

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+<p align="center">
+  <picture>
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="assets/brand/wordmark-dark.png">
+    <img alt="mcpgawk by nativerse" src="assets/brand/wordmark-light.png" width="320">
+  </picture>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><em>gawk at it before you trust it.</em></p>
+
+# mcpgawk
+
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcpgawk.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcpgawk/)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/mcpgawk.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcpgawk/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![CI](https://github.com/gawk-dev/mcpgawk/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/gawk-dev/mcpgawk/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![No egress](https://img.shields.io/badge/inventory-never%20uploaded-brightgreen.svg)](#guarantees)
+
+**gawk at an MCP server before you trust it.** A single, local-first command that connects to any
+[Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server and measures what it will cost and
+expose — **without the server's inventory ever leaving your machine.**
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="assets/brand/demo.gif" alt="mcpgawk scanning an MCP server — tools, token cost, and capability flags, locally" width="760">
+</p>
+<p align="center"><sub>Real output. Reproducible on your machine — no account, nothing uploaded.</sub></p>
+
+## Why
+
+Every MCP server you connect dumps *all* its tool definitions into your model's context at connect
+time — whether you use one tool or none. That's a hidden **token tax** and an unvetted **trust
+surface**. mcpgawk measures both, **locally**, and never phones home about what it saw.
+
+## How it's different
+
+- **vs. cloud scanners** (e.g. Snyk/Invariant `mcp-scan`) — they upload your inventory to a server and
+  gate the verdict. mcpgawk runs entirely on your machine; nothing is uploaded, ever.
+- **vs. lazy-load gateways** — they cut tokens but tell you nothing about the *risk* surface.
+- **mcpgawk does both** — cost **and** trust — locally, reproducibly, in one command.
+
+## Features
+
+- 🔌 **Any transport** — stdio, streamable-HTTP, SSE, and OAuth remotes (via the `mcp-remote` bridge).
+- 💸 **Token cost index** — exactly what each tool adds to your context at connect.
+- 🧾 **Capability facts** — write / exfil-capable / declared annotations, straight from the schema.
+- 📌 **Integrity pin + drift** — catch a server that silently rewrites its tools (`--track`).
+- 🚩 **Bounded signals** — injection-shaped descriptions, cross-server shadowing, under-declaring Server Cards — pointers for a human, never verdicts.
+- 🔒 **Zero egress, by construction** — the measurement layers import no network library. Enforced by a test.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install mcpgawk        # or: uv tool install mcpgawk
+```
+
+## Use
+
+```bash
+mcpgawk scan mcp.json                                              # a whole config
+mcpgawk scan --stdio "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /tmp"
+mcpgawk scan --http https://host/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
+mcpgawk scan --sse  https://host/sse
+mcpgawk scan mcp.json --track                                     # record + detect rug-pulls over time
+mcpgawk scan mcp.json --json                                      # machine-readable labels
+```
+
+## What it reports
+
+- **Cost index** — tokens each tool adds at connect (named tokenizer; a comparable index, not an
+  absolute Claude count).
+- **Capability facts** — write/mutating, exfil-capable, declared annotations.
+- **Integrity pin** — a hash that changes if the server silently rewrites its tools; `--track`
+  turns it into rug-pull detection over time.
+- **Bounded signals** — precise, low-false-positive pointers *for a human to review*, never verdicts:
+  injection-shaped descriptions (tools **and** prompts), cross-server name shadowing, and public
+  Server Cards that under-declare what the server actually exposes.
+
+## Guarantees
+
+- **No inventory egress.** The only network is the protocol client talking to the server you point
+  it at. The measurement layers import no network library — they *cannot* egress by construction
+  (enforced by a test). Public Server Card discovery is fetched with no auth and no redirect-following.
+- **Facts ≠ heuristics.** Exact capability facts and the token index never mix with the bounded
+  heuristic signals — separate in code, separate in output.
+- **Reproducible.** One command, identical numbers.
+- **Rides protocol evolution.** Built on the official `mcp` SDK, which negotiates the protocol version.
+
+## Develop
+
+```bash
+uv run --extra dev --with mcp --with tiktoken --with httpx python -m pytest -q
+```
+
+## Contributing
+
+Issues and PRs welcome. Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) first, and see the design
+boundaries in [THREAT-MODEL.md](THREAT-MODEL.md). Security reports go through [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md)
+(privately, not a public issue).
+
+## License
+
+**Apache-2.0** — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). Part of the **nativerse** · gawk.dev family. The value is in the
+repo, not a cloud.

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+# Security
+
+mcpgawk is a **local-first** tool: it connects only to the MCP server you point it at, and never uploads
+your inventory anywhere. The design and its boundaries are documented in [THREAT-MODEL.md](THREAT-MODEL.md).
+
+## Reporting a vulnerability
+
+If you find a security issue **in mcpgawk itself** (e.g. a way it could leak inventory, follow a redirect
+with credentials, or execute untrusted content), please report it privately rather than opening a public issue:
+
+- Open a [GitHub security advisory](../../security/advisories/new), or
+- email **security@gawk.dev**.
+
+Please include: what you did, what you expected, what happened, and a minimal reproduction. We aim to
+acknowledge within a few days.
+
+## Scope
+
+- **In scope:** inventory egress, credential handling (Server Card fetch is deliberately unauthenticated and
+  does not follow redirects), the EXACT / BOUNDED / INDEX separation, and any way the tool could be made to
+  act on content from a scanned server.
+- **Out of scope:** findings *about a third-party MCP server* that mcpgawk reports on. mcpgawk's signals are
+  **bounded pointers for a human to review, never verdicts** — a flagged tool is not a vulnerability report.