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Reviewing an Untrusted MCP Server Before Connecting It
A teammate wants to connect a community-published MCP server that claims to give the agent "full access to Slack — read, post, manage channels" so the agent can post status updates to a team channel. They propose connecting it with the Slack workspace's admin token because "that's the token we already have lying around."
- What's wrong with this proposal, described in terms of the trust boundary a third-party MCP server introduces?
- What would you actually do before connecting it?
- The agent later needs to summarize a channel's recent messages, which might contain arbitrary user-posted text. What extra risk does that introduce, and how does your answer to (2) mitigate it?
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