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pkgxray MCP Server

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pkgxray runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 92 installs a week from npm. Last commit 19 Aug 2026.

Pre-install security scans for npm packages, MCP servers, and AI agents with cited verdict evidence.

Installs per day peak 389 · avg 69 · -21% w/w
a month agotoday
92
Installs / week
npm · pkgxray
11
Stars
0 open issues
19 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
JavaScript

What the code does

We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Reads secrets and sends them out [пакет] src/sandbox.js:55
  { rel: ".aws/credentials", slug: "aws", build: (t) =>
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

    const file = path.join(CACHE_DIR, cacheKeyFor(name, version));
    const child = spawn(command, args, { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"], ...options });
Sends data to a third-party sink [пакет] src/sandbox.js:80, src/sandbox.js:82
  "webhook.site", "pastebin.com", "hastebin", "transfer.sh",

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch pkgxray and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pkgxray -- npx -y pkgxray
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pkgxray": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pkgxray"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pkgxray]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "pkgxray"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pkgxray": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pkgxray"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pkgxray": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pkgxray"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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pkgxray — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for pkgxray?
pkgxray runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package pkgxray was installed 92 times last week.
How do I connect pkgxray?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls pkgxray straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use pkgxray?
The npm package pkgxray was installed 92 times in the last week. Week over week that is -21%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is pkgxray open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 11 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.