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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software or corpus in your research, please cite it as below."
type: software
title: "ContextGuard: A Zero-Trust Middleware Framework for Securing Model Context Protocol Agent Pipelines"
version: 1.0.1
date-released: "2026-03-22"
repository-code: "https://github.com/sunilgentyala/contextguard"
license: MIT
authors:
  - family-names: Gentyala
    given-names: Sunil
    affiliation: "HCLTech (HCL America Inc.), Dallas, TX, USA"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2642-3479"
    email: sunil.gentyala@ieee.org
  - family-names: Srinivas
    given-names: Ch
    affiliation: "Dept. of CSE, Sir C R Reddy College of Engineering, Eluru, India"
    email: srinivas.chlsnii@gmail.com
  - family-names: Dhumpati
    given-names: Raghu
    affiliation: "Dept. of CSE, Bahrain Polytechnic, Bahrain"
    email: dr.Raghu.Dhumpati@gmail.com
abstract: >
  ContextGuard is a zero-trust middleware framework for Model Context
  Protocol (MCP) deployments. It implements cryptographic server attestation
  (ECDSA P-256), continuous capability binding for rug pull detection, and
  semantic tool-definition scanning for tool poisoning detection. Evaluated
  against a 30-entry hand-crafted corpus of malicious MCP tool definitions,
  the CVL and DIMS prototype achieves 100.0% precision and 96.7% recall at
  1.005 ms mean authorization latency.
keywords:
  - model-context-protocol
  - zero-trust-architecture
  - supply-chain-security
  - ai-agent-security
  - tool-poisoning
  - rug-pull-attack
  - cryptographic-attestation
  - llm-security
preferred-citation:
  type: conference-paper
  title: >
    ContextGuard: A Zero-Trust Middleware Framework for Securing Model
    Context Protocol Agent Pipelines
  authors:
    - family-names: Gentyala
      given-names: Sunil
      affiliation: "HCLTech (HCL America Inc.), Dallas, TX, USA"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2642-3479"
    - family-names: Srinivas
      given-names: Ch
      affiliation: "Dept. of CSE, Sir C R Reddy College of Engineering, Eluru, India"
    - family-names: Dhumpati
      given-names: Raghu
      affiliation: "Dept. of CSE, Bahrain Polytechnic, Bahrain"
  year: 2026
  collection-title: "Proc. IEEE International Conference"
  notes: "Submitted"