# ai.adtest/adtest-mcp (npm · adtest-mcp)

AI-only ad scoring for Claude: score image, video or text ads on 13 dimensions before you spend.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- npm · `adtest-mcp`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-adtest-adtest-mcp/adtest-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-adtest-adtest-mcp/adtest-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `adtest-mcp`
- Version: `1.1.0`
- 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 2026-09-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 98/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 31 of 95 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 18 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 80/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 158 tokens (~158/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 63/100
  - Stability observed for 19 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - 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 supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the ai.adtest/adtest-mcp server?

ai.adtest/adtest-mcp runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y adtest-mcp. 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 ai-adtest-adtest-mcp -- npx -y adtest-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-adtest-adtest-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adtest-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-adtest-adtest-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adtest-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add ai-adtest-adtest-mcp -- npx -y adtest-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-adtest-adtest-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg adtest-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-adtest-adtest-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "adtest-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-adtest-adtest-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "adtest-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-adtest-adtest-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y adtest-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-adtest-adtest-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adtest-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-09-20 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 79, +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.

### 2026-09-16 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-14 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-12 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-09 (score 75, +4)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.27

### 2026-09-01 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `analyze_advert` (~158 tokens)

Run an AI-only analysis of an advert and get a detailed scoring report. Provide exactly ONE of: `url` (a public image or video URL), `file_path` (a local image/video file to upload), or `text` (ad copy). Optionally pass `brand_url` to improve brand/logo detection. Video is supported and may take a few minutes. Each successful analysis costs 1 credit from your AdTest wallet.

Input parameters:

- `brand_url` (string): Advertiser brand/website URL (optional)
- `file_path` (string): Local path to an image or video file to upload
- `text` (string): Ad copy text to analyze
- `url` (string): Public URL of an image or video advert

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 80
- 2026-09-19: 79
- 2026-09-18: 79
- 2026-09-17: 78
- 2026-09-16: 78
- 2026-09-15: 77
- 2026-09-14: 77
- 2026-09-13: 76
- 2026-09-12: 76
- 2026-09-11: 75
- 2026-09-10: 75
- 2026-09-09: 75
- 2026-09-08: 71
- 2026-09-07: 71
- 2026-09-06: 71
- 2026-09-05: 71
- 2026-09-04: 71
- 2026-09-03: 71
- 2026-09-02: 71
- 2026-09-01: 71

## Common questions

### What is the ai.adtest/adtest-mcp server?

ai.adtest/adtest-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as ai.adtest/adtest-mcp. AI-only ad scoring for Claude: score image, video or text ads on 13 dimensions before you spend. This page covers its npm package (adtest-mcp).

### Is the ai.adtest/adtest-mcp server safe to use?

ai.adtest/adtest-mcp scores 80 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 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 ai.adtest/adtest-mcp server expose?

ai.adtest/adtest-mcp exposes 1 tool: analyze_advert. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 158 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the ai.adtest/adtest-mcp server still maintained?

ai.adtest/adtest-mcp is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 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 ai.adtest/adtest-mcp server under?

ai.adtest/adtest-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.

## Links

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