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A post in the r/mcp community describes this failure mode: Claude nearly read a production .env through the filesystem MCP, the poster eventually wrote a set of protections in Rust, and the author built the filesystem-mcp-env-guard project for this purpose.
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10/16/2026
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Valid until: 1/14/2027
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