Is claude-scholar safe to install?

Security audit of Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · MCP Server by Galaxy-Dawn · ★ 5.8k

✓ SAFE Basic audit · rule-based scan · 42 published rules

Yes — claude-scholar passed AgentSkillsHub's rule-based security scan with no dangerous patterns detected. As with any third-party skill, confirm what credentials it requests before production use.

What it is: Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development. Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding, experiments, writing, and publication.

No dangerous patterns were detected: no credential exfiltration, no obfuscated downloads, no sandbox-escape attempts, no prompt-injection markers.

Audit summary

Security grade	✓ SAFE
Quality score	67/100
GitHub stars	5.8k
Language	Python
License	MIT
Last updated	2026-10-19

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This is AgentSkillsHub's free basic audit: an automated rule-based scan with 42 published rules built on SlowMist's agent-security taxonomy (credential theft, obfuscated payloads, privilege escalation, covert instructions to the agent, and more) across 186,000+ open-source AI agent skills and MCP servers, refreshed every 8 hours. A SAFE grade is a scan result, not a guarantee — deep 5-dimension audits (code · credentials · vendor · supply-chain · operational) are available for enterprise. Audited: 2026-10-23.