lyshark/Nmap-MCP

Nmap-MCP is a utility-grade bridge between traditional network security tools and the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem. Quantitatively, the project is in its infancy with only 1 star and no forks over a 3-month period, indicating it is currently a personal experiment or niche tool rather than a community-backed standard. Technically, it leverages 'FastMCP' (a framework for building MCP servers) to wrap Nmap commands. The use of SSH persistent connections (ControlMaster) for remote execution is a competent engineering choice but not a novel one. Its defensibility is near-zero because the logic is a straightforward mapping of Nmap flags to MCP tool definitions; any security engineer could replicate this functionality in a single afternoon. While frontier labs like Anthropic (who created MCP) are unlikely to build specific Nmap integrations, the project faces high displacement risk from more comprehensive 'Security MCP' suites or official integrations from established security vendors like Kali Linux or rapid7. It serves as a useful reference for how to bridge legacy CLI tools into the agentic era, but lacks the traction or complexity to be considered a durable asset.