WARDEN tested against two MCP scanners on 986 real servers
The makers of the WARDEN scanner benchmarked it against open-source mcp-audit and mcp-shield on MCPTox (218 poisoned tools) and 986 public MCP servers. WARDEN 0.9.0 caught 171 of 218 attacks and blocked 3 honest servers, mcp-audit caught 25 with 33 false positives, and mcp-shield caught 41 while blocking 343.
- WARDEN 0.9.0 caught 171 of 218 poisoned MCPTox tools
- mcp-audit blocked 25 attacks and 33 of 986 honest servers
- mcp-shield blocked 343 servers, a third of the sample
- An optional AI classifier added 20 catches with no new false blocks
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