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mcp/aligndottech/align-cli

Align CLI - capture decisions, check alignment, and query your decision graph from the terminal

Verdict
BLOCK
Grade
F
Trust score
47 /100
Exposed tools
1 1r · 0w · 0d
Transport
sse · stdio · streamable-http
License
MIT
Stars
2
01

Overview

From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.

[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aligndottech/cli) [](https://github.com/aligndottech/align-cli/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](./LICENSE) [](https://nodejs.org)

Your AI agents know the code. They don't know the company.

The decisions behind the code live in commits, tickets, chat and meetings. Months later nobody can tell what still stands, what conflicts, or why. Align pulls them into one graph your agents check before they build.

curl -fsSL https://align.tech/install.sh | sh
align

That is the whole thing. The first time you run it, align asks which coding agent you use, connects your tools and builds a local graph on your machine. After that, align opens your agent with the graph already wired in.

A standalone binary. No Node, no npm, nothing else to install, and local-only mode works fully - on-device embeddings included, running on a WASM backend bundled inside the binary. Linux, macOS and Windows, x64 and arm64, glibc and musl. It checks the download against the release's own checksums and says so out loud when it cannot, and you can read install.sh before you pipe it anywhere.

Prefer npm, or already have Node? npm install -g @aligndottech/cli (Node 22.16+). Binaries for every platform are on the releases page.

On Windows, start with npm. In PowerShell:

npm install -g @aligndottech/cli
align

The curl ... | sh line above needs a POSIX shell, so it runs under Git Bash or WSL and not in PowerShell itself. Installing covers the rest, including the manual binary download for a Windows machine with no Node on it.

MIT. No account ne

Read from source at commit 1ce3bc87dd09OBSERVED · 2026-10-12
02

Connect

Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control. Replace the environment placeholders with a token scoped to the least it needs.

claude-code (npm)
claude mcp add cli -- npx -y @aligndottech/[email protected]
03

Exposed tools (1)

1 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.

ToolRiskDescription
align-decision-graphreadAlign: check the ${event ===
04

Trust audit

BLOCKgrade F · trust 47/100 Do not install this without reading the findings. The audit found something that could harm you or your machine.

LayerWhat it checksResult
L0Provenance & inventoryFAIL
L1Static analysis of the codeFAIL
L2Instruction surface (what it tells the agent)PASS
L3Class-specific surfacePASS
L4Behavioural (sandbox)SKIPPED

What the source does

Filesystem
none-observed
Network
declared (4 observation(s))
Shell
declared (1 observation(s))
Dependencies
not all pinned
Secrets in source
found

Findings (25)

HIGHInventory / provenance · inv.suspicious_name · CWE-1104
src/lib/hook-payload.ts
hook-payload.ts
Why it matters. member named after an attack tool
Fix. remove or justify
HIGHCode injection · code.deserialize · CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-95
scripts/workflow-run-steps.mjs:159
doc = yaml.load(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'))
Why it matters. deserialises untrusted bytes into live objects
Fix. use json or yaml.safe_load
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.db_uri · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/sync-background-child.test.ts:23
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 'aws-planted', ALIGN_TOKEN: 'al-planted', ALIGN_LLM_API_KEY: 'llm-planted', DATABASE_URL: 'postgres://u:p@h/db',
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.generic · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/helpers/scope-deps.ts:8
export const TOKEN = 'SECRET-TOKEN-0123456789';
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.generic · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/mcp-align-mark.test.ts:135
for (const bad of [{ token: 'ghp_SECRETVALUE0123456789' }, { api_key: 'sk-ant-SECRETVALUE' }]) {
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.generic · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/mcp-scope-dispatch.test.ts:88
await expect(dispatchTool('align_scope', { action: 'view', token: 'ghp_SECRETVALUE0123456789' }, client, env)).rejects.toThrow(/an unknown property/);
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.generic · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/mcp-scope-dispatch.test.ts:89
try { await dispatchTool('align_scope', { action: 'view', token: 'ghp_SECRETVALUE0123456789' }, client, env); } catch (e) { expect((e as Error).message).not.toContain('SECRETVALUE'); }
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.generic · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/mcp-scope-tool.test.ts:62
await expect(runScopeTool({ action: 'set', source: 'jira', projects: ['ALI'], token: 'ghp_SECRETVALUE0123456789' }, localEnv, deps)).rejects.toThrow(/an unknown property \(the name is not printed back
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.github · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/scope-values.test.ts:36
expect(() => normaliseScopeValues('jira', ['ghp_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'])).toThrow(ScopeValueError);
MEDIUMHard-coded secrets · secret.github · CWE-798, CWE-321
src/__tests__/scope-values.test.ts:69
const secret = 'ghp_SECRETVALUE0123456789abcdefABCDEF';
LOWInventory / provenance · inv.hidden_file · CWE-1104
.release-please-manifest.json
.release-please-manifest.json
Why it matters. hidden member outside the usual dotfiles
Fix. review its purpose
LOWInventory / provenance · inv.suspicious_name · CWE-1104
src/__tests__/hook-payload-agents.test.ts
hook-payload-agents.test.ts
Why it matters. member named after an attack tool
Fix. remove or justify
LOWInventory / provenance · inv.suspicious_name · CWE-1104
src/__tests__/hook-payload-user-hosts.test.ts
hook-payload-user-hosts.test.ts
Why it matters. member named after an attack tool
Fix. remove or justify
LOWInventory / provenance · inv.suspicious_name · CWE-1104
src/__tests__/hook-payload.test.ts
hook-payload.test.ts
Why it matters. member named after an attack tool
Fix. remove or justify
LOWInventory / provenance · inv.suspicious_name · CWE-1104
src/__tests__/share-payload.test.ts
share-payload.test.ts
Why it matters. member named after an attack tool
Fix. remove or justify
LOWCode injection · code.eval_exec · CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-95
src/__tests__/backup-copy.test.ts:68
exec(`UPDATE decisions SET tomorrow = 'x' WHERE id = '${id}'`);
Why it matters. evaluates text as code
Fix. remove; use a parser or a dispatch table
LOWCode injection · code.eval_exec · CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-95
src/__tests__/backup-copy.test.ts:78
exec(`INSERT INTO decisions (id, title, summary, platform, source_url) VALUES ('twin', 'second title', 'body', 'github', '${url}')`);
Why it matters. evaluates text as code
Fix. remove; use a parser or a dispatch table
LOWCode injection · code.eval_exec · CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-95
src/__tests__/local-db-v10-promotions.test.ts:50
exec(`INSERT INTO decisions (id, title, summary, platform) VALUES ('a', 'a', 's', 'cli'), ('b', 'b', 's', 'cli')`);
Why it matters. evaluates text as code
Fix. remove; use a parser or a dispatch table
LOWCode injection · code.eval_exec · CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-95
src/__tests__/local-db-v10-promotions.test.ts:68
exec(`INSERT INTO decision_audit (id, decision_id, action, actor, detail) VALUES
Why it matters. evaluates text as code
Fix. remove; use a parser or a dispatch table
LOWCode injection · code.eval_exec · CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-95
src/__tests__/local-db-v10-promotions.test.ts:84
exec(`PRAGMA user_version = ${SCHEMA_VERSION + 2}`);
Why it matters. evaluates text as code
Fix. remove; use a parser or a dispatch table
LOWInsecure crypto · crypto.weak_hash · CWE-327, CWE-338
src/__tests__/advisory-verdict.test.ts:68
const hash = createHash('sha1').update(`${cwd}\0${envName}`).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
LOWInsecure crypto · crypto.weak_hash · CWE-327, CWE-338
src/__tests__/at-rest-permissions.test.ts:93
const marker = path.join(store!, `advisory-${createHash('sha1').update(cwd).digest('hex').slice(0, 16)}.json`);
LOWInsecure crypto · crypto.weak_hash · CWE-327, CWE-338
src/lib/advisory-dedup.ts:23
const hash = createHash('sha1').update(cwd).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
LOWInsecure crypto · crypto.weak_hash · CWE-327, CWE-338
src/lib/advisory-verdict.ts:91
return createHash('sha1').update(text).digest('hex');
LOWInsecure crypto · crypto.weak_hash · CWE-327, CWE-338
src/lib/advisory-verdict.ts:137
const hash = createHash('sha1').update(`${cwd}\0${envName}`).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);

Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.

Audited 2026-10-12 · audit v0.4.1 · source sha 1ce3bc87dd09full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/aligndottech__align-cli.json · Report an issue / request a re-scan
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Audit history

Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.

DateSourceVerdictGradeScoreChange
2026-10-121ce3bc87dd09BLOCKF47first audit
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Questions

What is the @aligndottech/cli MCP server?

Align CLI - capture decisions, check alignment, and query your decision graph from the terminal

What tools does @aligndottech/cli expose?

1 in total: 1 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.

Is @aligndottech/cli safe to connect to an agent?

No — not without reading the findings first. The audit graded it F (47/100) and found 2 critical or high issues in the source. Each one is listed on this page with the file and line it is on.

What credentials does @aligndottech/cli need?

It reads FAKE_BROWSER_TOKEN and GROQ_API_KEY from the environment. Give it a token scoped to the least it needs — an agent that can be talked into calling a tool can be talked into calling it with your credentials.

How does @aligndottech/cli run?

It speaks sse, stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @aligndottech/cli at 0.51.0.

How current is this page?

The grade is for one exact copy of the source (1ce3bc87dd09), read on 2026-10-12. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.

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