MCP Config Access
High
- Category
- Agent Snooping
- Content
| **Account sign-in (OAuth)** | the client supports OAuth for MCP **and** a person is at the keyboard | the user, in a browser | | **API key** | any client, headless runs, REST, CI | you, with a key the user supplies | MCP config lives in `.claude/mcp.json`, `~/.cursor/mcp.json`, the Claude Desktop config, or your runtime's equivalent. Restart the client after editing it. ### 1a. MCP with account sign-in (OAuth)
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
- Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
