Learn MCP Security Scanner: from zero to expert, then sell it

No AI background needed. Five levels, each with something to actually do, at your own pace. Tick items as you go (your ticks stay in this browser).

Evidence, proof and selling tools for MCP Security Scanner

Level 1 Beginner: understand it

Tool descriptions are instructions to the AI; the scanner quarantines poisoned ones.

Think of it like this: Opening the mail for an executive and pulling out the letters that try to give orders with forged signatures.

Read the full plain-English explanation: MCP Security Scanner, explained.

• I read the explanation above.
• I can say what it does in one sentence, without notes.

Level 2 User: see it work

Run it live: open the live demo. Before each result, guess what will happen. These are checks it must pass:

• Ordinary add and send_email tools: Nothing suspicious: passes.
• A description that grabs the SSH key: Classic tool poisoning.
• A tool that changes another tool (BCC an outsider): Shadowing: one tool altering another.
• Invisible characters hiding an instruction: Zero-width characters a person would never see.
• A 'helper' that asks for the .env file: Credential grab.

• I ran the live demo.
• I can explain what one of these checks shows.

Level 3 Verifier: prove it yourself

This is the skill that sets you apart: you don't have to believe us, and neither do your customers.

1. Install Python 3 if you don't have it (python.org/downloads).
2. Download the kit and unzip it.
3. Open a terminal in that folder. On Windows, click the folder's address bar, type cmd and press Enter. On a Mac, right-click the folder and choose New Terminal at Folder.
4. Run python3 verify.py (on Windows, python verify.py). It checks the seal without the internet.
5. Run python3 verify.py --live. It repeats every check from your own computer.
6. Try to cheat it: open transcript.json in a text editor, change one character, save, and run python3 verify.py again. It must now say FAIL. Unzip a fresh copy afterward.

• I ran the kit's check on my own computer.
• I changed a file and saw it fail.

Level 4 Expert: know the edges

An expert knows what a product does not do, and says it first. That is what makes a buyer trust you.

• It is heuristic and cautious: in our own check on 2026-11-03 it quarantined a harmless 'do not reveal the puzzle solution' description. A person reviews every flag in paid work.
• It reads definitions; a tool that behaves badly with an innocent description needs the probe (see MCP Attestor).
• A clean scan means none of its checks fired, not that the tool is safe.

You can say

• Poisoned tools are quarantined before the agent reads them.
• A person reviews every flag in paid work.

Never say

• "No false alarms": it is cautious and sometimes flags harmless text.
• "A clean scan means safe".

Read the questions real buyers send, with honest answers: answers to buyer questions.

Test yourself (click a question to see the answer)

• I got every quiz question right without looking.
• I can name one thing it does not do.
• I explained it to a friend, and they understood it.

Want a formal study path? The CAIN Academy has courses and exams. Finishing this page is your own practice; it is not a qualification or certification.

Level 5 Seller: put it in front of a customer

1. Copy, paste, send: the shortest route, no technical skill needed.
2. Who buys it and where to find them.
3. The sales conversation, then the offer and the close.
4. The rules: read these before your first message.
5. Selling tools with this product's evidence built in: pitch, emails, call script, objection answers, one-pager.

• I read the rules.
• I sent my first personal message.

About money: your share is agreed in writing with FIRME AI CORPORATION before your first message (email vincent@firmeai.com). Nothing here promises income. Most messages get no reply; that is normal.