Aegis MCP

Aegis MCP Server: Empowering AI for DevSecOps

Aegis MCP is an open-source system that helps AI assistants securely connect with and manage cloud services, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and security tools. It acts as a translator, turning complex tools and software development kits into secure, tested sets of commands that AI assistants can use. This allows AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot to perform tasks such as managing cloud setups, checking for security issues, and analyzing networks directly from where they operate.

Benefits

Aegis MCP offers several advantages. It provides specialized tools for popular services like AWS and Kubernetes, as well as for security scanning, Git, network analysis, and Jenkins. It uses a flexible authorization system with JWT based Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for secure production use, which can be turned off for local testing. Every action taken is recorded in clear JSON audit logs, making it easy to integrate with security monitoring systems. The system is also designed to be expanded, allowing for the addition of new tools and scanners for things like dependencies, secrets, and vulnerabilities. It can be easily deployed using Docker and includes a health check endpoint.

Use Cases

This system is useful for a variety of tasks. It includes tools for managing cloud resources such as listing EC2 instances and checking S3 bucket access. It can also manage Jenkins CI/CD jobs, including creating, triggering, and deleting them. For application security, Aegis MCP can run Semgrep scans for code vulnerabilities, check container images with Trivy, find exposed secrets in files, and identify known issues in software dependencies. Network and infrastructure security tasks include auditing Kubernetes clusters, scanning network ports, validating SSL/TLS certificates, and checking HTTP security headers.

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Additional Information

Aegis MCP is distributed under the MIT License.