Pkgtruth MCP Server

What the code does

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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.

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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.

    if (existsSync(path.join(nm, '.bin', name)) || existsSync(path.join(nm, name, 'package.json'))) return true;

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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.

claude mcp add pkgtruth -- npx -y pkgtruth

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pkgtruth": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pkgtruth"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.pkgtruth]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "pkgtruth"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pkgtruth": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pkgtruth"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pkgtruth": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pkgtruth"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PKGTRUTH_REGISTRY (Alternate npm registry to verify against. Defaults to https://registry.npmjs.org.), PKGTRUTH_DOWNLOADS_API (Alternate downloads API used for adoption figures. Defaults to https://api.npmjs.org.), PKGTRUTH_CACHE_DIR (Where adoption figures are cached between runs. Defaults to ~/.cache/pkgtruth.), PKGTRUTH_TIMEOUT_MS (Per-request timeout in milliseconds. Defaults to 8000.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.