67 popular MCP servers started offline: 7 reached for websites their own READMEs never mention
Shown on HN Nov 1, the test installed 67 npm MCP servers in a sandbox with no internet route and no real credentials, called no tools, and found 7 looked up undeclared domains at startup while 24 offered tools their README doesn't name (2 did both). It's one run that only reads the shipped README, so the author says it isn't a ranking, and 29 finding pages stay unpublished until hand-checked.