# Hawl (npm · hawl.ai)

Mailbox, handoffs and permits between your coding agents. Local mode needs no account.

- Trust score: 56/100 (low)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-24

## Components

- npm · `hawl.ai`: 56/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/aaronlilla-hawl/hawl-ai.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/aaronlilla-hawl/hawl-ai)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `hawl.ai`
- Version: `0.1.14`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-24.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 0 of 13 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 19/100
  - Repository check failed: no source repository is declared.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 55/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 46 tokens (~46/item across 0 items; 0 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Nothing to assess: this server has no tools to check for usage examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 30/100
  - Stability observed for 9 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Nothing to assess: this server exposes no tools, so there are no tool definitions to check for coverage.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - Destructive-tool annotations not yet verified: our capture listed no tools, so there were no annotations to read.
  - An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Hawl MCP server?

Hawl runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y hawl.ai. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add aaronlilla-hawl -- npx -y hawl.ai
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aaronlilla-hawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "aaronlilla-hawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add aaronlilla-hawl -- npx -y hawl.ai
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "aaronlilla-hawl": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add aaronlilla-hawl --command npx --arg -y --arg hawl.ai
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  aaronlilla-hawl:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "hawl.ai"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "aaronlilla-hawl": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add aaronlilla-hawl -t stdio -c npx -a -y hawl.ai
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aaronlilla-hawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-23 (score 56, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-21 (score 55, 0)

- [functional] Package version: 0.1.8 → 0.1.14
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.8 → 0.1.12
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.8 → 0.1.11

### 2026-10-20 (score 55, +21)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: unverified → fail
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.17
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.7 → 0.1.8

### 2026-10-19 (score 34, −18)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: fail → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.3 → 0.1.7

### 2026-10-15 (score 52)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (0)

The sandbox run completed and this package exposed no tools.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aaronlilla-hawl/hawl-ai#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-24: 56
- 2026-10-23: 56
- 2026-10-22: 55
- 2026-10-21: 55
- 2026-10-20: 55
- 2026-10-19: 34
- 2026-10-18: 52
- 2026-10-17: 52
- 2026-10-16: 52
- 2026-10-15: 52

## Common questions

### What is the Hawl MCP server?

Hawl is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.aaronlilla/hawl. Mailbox, handoffs and permits between your coding agents. Local mode needs no account. This page covers its npm package (hawl.ai).

### Is the Hawl MCP server safe to use?

Hawl scores 56 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 24 October 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Hawl MCP server expose?

Hawl exposes no tools. We connected to it and read its tool list, and it was empty, so it offers an MCP client nothing to call.

### Is the Hawl MCP server still maintained?

Hawl is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Hawl MCP server under?

Hawl declares the Apache-2.0 licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/hawl.ai
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/hawl.ai
- Website: https://hawl.ai/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aaronlilla-hawl/hawl-ai.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aaronlilla-hawl/hawl-ai.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aaronlilla-hawl/hawl-ai