Marrow AI: Control Layer for AI Agents

ai.getmarrow/marrow

6/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 7 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-26
Health score 66

About Marrow AI: Control Layer for AI Agents

Marrow AI: Control Layer for AI Agents is an MCP server published by getmarrow.ai. Approval gate and audit trail for AI agent actions: policy check first, proof after. Any MCP client.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @getmarrow/mcp at version 3.9.108.

It asks for one secret: MARROW_API_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 3.9.108 was published on 26 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 6 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`MARROW_API_KEY`	Yes	Yes	Named Marrow agent API key. Keep it in trusted secret storage.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/getmarrow/marrow-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: MARROW_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via domain getmarrow.ai
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@getmarrow/mcp@3.9.108 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Warn	Reads SSH or cloud credentials (vendor/classifier/classifier.js:376: "id_rsa"); Downloads and runs a script (dist/seatbelt/mapper.js:5: "curl\|sh"); Reads SSH or cloud credentials (dist/seatbelt/mapper.js:871: "/.ssh/id_"); 3 more
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 117 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 66 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity17 / 40

7 GitHub stars, 2,570 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-27, no GitHub release, 460 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 34 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`ai.getmarrow/marrow`
Publisher	Domain getmarrow.ai
How the name is verified	Name verified via domain getmarrow.ai. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `@getmarrow/mcp` 3.9.108 (stdio)
Version	3.9.108
Published	2026-10-26
Last updated	2026-10-26
Source repository	https://github.com/getmarrow/marrow-mcp
Website	https://getmarrow.ai/marrow-for-mcp
Category	Agent safety & governance (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "marrow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@getmarrow/mcp@3.9.108"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MARROW_API_KEY": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/ai-getmarrow-marrow.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.