Pi Permission Gate
@johansja/pi-permission-gate · by johansja
LLM-powered safety gate for pi: classifies bash and MCP tool calls by risk before execution, with CWD-aware judgments.
No known CVEs
MIT license
Actively maintained
Last commit 11d ago
Works with most clients
Transport: stdio, sse
3 tools · ~106 tok
Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx
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Pi Permission Gate is an MCP server that LLM-powered safety gate for pi: classifies bash and MCP tool calls by risk before execution, with CWD-aware judgments. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio and sse, requires no API key, and scores 89/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.
Step 1
Install in your client
Config is the same across clients - only the file and path differ.
CD
Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+
Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pi-permission-gate": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@johansja/pi-permission-gate"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
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What Pi Permission Gate does
LLM-powered safety gate for pi. Instead of maintaining regex patterns, a fast model judges each bash command and MCP tool call by risk level before execution — with CWD-aware context so project-local operations are treated as less risky than system-wide equivalents.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Pi Permission Gate safe to use?
- Pi Permission Gate has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under MIT.
- How do I install Pi Permission Gate?
- Pi Permission Gate supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
- What can Pi Permission Gate do?
- Pi Permission Gate provides 3 tools: Install, Logging, Development. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
- What AI clients work with Pi Permission Gate?
- Pi Permission Gate is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
- Is Pi Permission Gate actively maintained?
- Pi Permission Gate is actively maintained - last commit was 11 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.
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