AI coding agents are installing MCP servers that will never be patched

When a developer tells an AI coding agent to “set up a GitHub MCP,” the agent has to pick a package. New research from Glow Labs documents sessions where it picked one out of an archived repository that will never be patched again. Source: Glow Security Reviewing real AI coding session transcripts, Glow Labs found deprecated MCP servers landing on developer machines, a pattern it calls MCPhantom.

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