# Nuclei

> Use this tool when you need to automate vulnerability scanning on target URLs, identify potential security threats, and analyze scan results. It provides a bridge to the Nuclei scanning tool, allowing for configurable parameters and progress tracking. Ideal for use cases requiring automated security audits and threat detection, with inputs including target URLs and scan settings, and outputs including scan progress and vulnerability reports.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/spritualkb-nuclei  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/spritualkb-nuclei

## Description

Nuclei-server is an MCP server that provides a bridge to the Nuclei vulnerability scanning tool, enabling AI assistants to perform automated security scans on target URLs. It exposes tools for starting and managing vulnerability scans with configurable parameters like severity, rate limiting, and proxy settings, and tracks scan progress and results as resources that can be retrieved and analyzed.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.96
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** security
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/spritualkb-nuclei)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/spritualkb/nuclei-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "spritualkb-nuclei"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/spritualkb-nuclei` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/spritualkb-nuclei/pull`

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