Is Arko safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Arko on public evidence — tashan score 54.0/100, it is currently active, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk), no known advisories against the current release. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Arko?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add arko -- npx -y arko-mcp`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

source: Arko-DevSecAI-Prod/ark-control-plane.

‹ The Index

Arko

npm

ARKO Model Context Protocol server — brings the ARKO security control engine into Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible AI coding agent.

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

Category: Security — see all ranked ›

Work: Security review

Who it is for: Security engineer

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add arko -- npx -y arko-mcp

tashan score: 54.0
Adoption: 53/wk
Upkeep: 70.0
Freshness: 99.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 0.4.1

No access inferred from declared dependenciesnothing it depends on reaches files, shell or network. This reads declarations only — built-in APIs are invisible to it, so absence of a declaration is not absence of access

No build provenanceno attestation — the published artifact cannot be traced to its source

What changed recently

2026-08-12 arko-mcp published 0.4.1, was 0.3.9 A new release is available.

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