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EndLayer Research · Paper 06MCP in the wild.

Surface · Monitor · GovernOct 2026

Start here · EndLayer Research · Paper 06MCP in the wild.We crawled the full official MCP Registry on 23 October 2026 and analysed 48,959 latest-version servers: distribution, declared credentials, metadata hygiene and who publishes them.MCP · 16 pages · For security researchers, platform teams and registry maintainersGet the PDF

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EndLayer Research · Paper 07Trusted by default.
Surface · Monitor · GovernOct 2026
Coding agentsTrusted by default.We confirmed 105 CVEs across 13 coding agents against the National Vulnerability Database, plus 43 in the MCP tooling around them, and classified each by the trust boundary that failed.Research paper · 16 pagesGet the PDF

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