reference-mcp
NPM · REFERENCE-MCP
Reference integrity for AI agents. Scans and verifies links, imports, assets, deps.
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Last scanned (10 hours ago)
Scores higher than 53% of npm servers
Category Testing and QA
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 30 of 92 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency19
- Repository check failed: no source repository is declared. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 43 days ago).Pass
- Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.Unverified
Schema Quality & AI Usability80
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 125 tokens (~62/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management77
- Stability observed for 23 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 2 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 −4
- Stability: pass → 0.77 functional
- 24 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 23 Oct 26 −1
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 16 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 14 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 12 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 11 Oct 26 +3
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/reference-mcp@0.1.6
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 92 packages
| Packages resolved | 92 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 30 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
reference.check ~74
Verify the references in a repository. Local paths are checked against the filesystem, module names against the npm registry, and URLs over HTTP. Returns findings with a status per reference.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| checkRemote | boolean | – | Whether to check remote URLs over the network |
| path | string | – | Repository root. Defaults to the current directory. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
reference.scan ~51
Scan a repository and extract every reference: URLs, local imports, assets, and module dependencies. Returns a deduplicated list by kind.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| path | string | – | Repository root. Defaults to the current directory. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the reference-mcp server?
reference-mcp runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y reference-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · reference-mcp
claude mcp add abduljabbarbxr-reference-mcp -- npx -y reference-mcp
What is the reference-mcp server?
reference-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.AbduljabbarBXR/reference-mcp. Reference integrity for AI agents. Scans and verifies links, imports, assets, deps. This page covers its npm package (reference-mcp).
Is the reference-mcp server safe to use?
reference-mcp scores 76 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 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 reference-mcp server expose?
reference-mcp exposes 2 tools: reference.scan, reference.check. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 125 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the reference-mcp server still maintained?
reference-mcp is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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 reference-mcp server under?
reference-mcp declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.