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Yes. RedMirror Reflection is an MCP server that gives your coding agent the power to find and prove security bugs, running entirely on your machine. Unlike an MCP server that just wraps another linter or asks a second LLM, it proposes a suspected bug with the model and then a compiled kernel proves it is reachable with a replayable path, or refutes it, so what comes back is a proof, not another opinion. It connects to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and any MCP host.
The Model Context Protocol lets a coding agent call external tools. A security MCP server is one that exposes tools your agent uses to check code for vulnerabilities. Most of what exists in this shape is a wrapper: it either shells out to a pattern-matching linter, which misses anything shaped a little differently and raises false alarms on the rest, or it asks a second language model to describe what might be wrong, which is a fresh opinion that can invent a bug or miss one. RedMirror is built the other way around: the tools it exposes drive a model to propose a suspected bug and then hand it to a compiled verifier that decides.
| Linter-wrapper MCP | LLM-reviewer MCP | RedMirror MCP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it decides | Pattern match | A second model's opinion | Compiled kernel, exhaustive search |
| Output | Warnings to triage | A paragraph | A replayable attack path, or nothing |
| Can hallucinate? | False positives on shape | Yes | No; a finding is proven or it is not raised |
| Logic / authorization bugs | Largely missed | Unverified guesses | Proven reachable |
The point is the deciding step. RedMirror lets the model be the proposer, which is the genuinely hard, human part of the job, and gives the judging to something outside the model: a kernel that lifts the code to a state machine and searches for a reachable violation. Because that step is deterministic, the verdict does not depend on which model you run, and every finding is a proof you can rerun rather than a claim you have to re-verify by hand.
Any of them. RedMirror ships explicit wiring for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, OpenCode, and Pi, and running its init command for an agent it does not recognize prints the exact MCP configuration for you to paste in. It uses whatever model you point the host at, local or cloud, so you can run it against a self-hosted Qwen or DeepSeek behind a firewall, or against a cloud model you already pay for.
Install the binary, activate your licence, and register it as an MCP server with your agent.
curl -fsSL https://dist.redmirror.io/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux redmirror-reflect license activate <your-key> redmirror-reflect init claude # or cursor, codex, gemini, windsurf, pi
On Windows, install with irm https://dist.redmirror.io/install.ps1 | iex. Then ask your agent to "verify this change" and it will report back only what the kernel could prove. Full per-editor setup is in the docs, and the how-to is in add security review to your coding agent.
Yes. RedMirror Reflection is an MCP server that gives your coding agent the power to find and prove security bugs, running on your machine. It exposes tools your agent calls to model a subsystem, verify it, and get back a result. The difference from a generic review MCP is what it returns: not an LLM opinion but a proof. The model proposes a suspected bug and a compiled kernel searches the reachable states to prove it with a replayable path or refute it, so a hallucinated finding never reaches you.
An LLM-reviewer MCP asks a second model to look at the code and describe what might be wrong, which is another opinion that can hallucinate a bug that is not there or miss one that is. RedMirror splits the roles: the model only proposes where to look, and a compiled kernel disposes by proving or refuting the path against the reachable state space. The verdict is deterministic and comes with a counterexample you can rerun, so you are trusting a proof, not a paragraph.
Any MCP host. It ships wiring for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, OpenCode, and Pi, and running its init command for an unlisted agent prints the exact MCP configuration to add by hand. It uses your own model, local or cloud, and the verification step uses no tokens, so it runs the same behind a firewall as on your laptop.
No, RedMirror never receives your code. It is one binary that runs locally and reads your source on your machine. Point it at a local model and nothing goes on the wire; point it at a cloud model and the only thing sent is what that model reads, to the provider you already trust. The kernel that proves the bugs is a compiled component that runs locally and uses no tokens.
Install the binary, activate your licence, and run the init command for your agent to register it as an MCP server. On macOS or Linux, curl the install script; on Windows, use the PowerShell one-liner. Then run redmirror-reflect init claude (or cursor, codex, gemini, windsurf, pi) and ask your agent to verify a change. Full per-editor setup is in the docs.