# SkillTotal (pypi · skilltotal)

Deterministic security scan of MCP servers, agent skills and npm/PyPI packages. Runs locally.

- Trust score: 85/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +17
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- pypi · `skilltotal`: 85/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skilltotal-skilltotal/skilltotal.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skilltotal-skilltotal/skilltotal)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `skilltotal`
- Version: `0.49.0`
- 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**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 83/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 370 tokens (~123/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

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

SkillTotal runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx skilltotal. 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-skilltotal-skilltotal -- uvx skilltotal
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-skilltotal-skilltotal": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "skilltotal"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-skilltotal-skilltotal": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "skilltotal"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add ai-skilltotal-skilltotal -- uvx skilltotal
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-skilltotal-skilltotal --command uvx --arg skilltotal
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-skilltotal-skilltotal:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["skilltotal"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-skilltotal-skilltotal": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "skilltotal"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-skilltotal-skilltotal -t stdio -c uvx -a skilltotal
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-skilltotal-skilltotal": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "skilltotal"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 85, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass
- [functional improvement] Security disclosure: unverified → pass

### 2026-09-19 (score 69, −16)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Security disclosure: pass → unverified
- [functional] Stability: pass → 0.97
- [functional] Package version: 0.48.3 → 0.49.0

### 2026-09-18 (score 85, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-09-17 (score 85, +1)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.93 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: fail → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.48.1 → 0.48.3
- [functional] Package version: 0.48.1 → 0.48.2

### 2026-09-16 (score 84, +15)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.90 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [functional regression] Capabilities: fail → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.48.0 → 0.48.1

### 2026-09-15 (score 69, +1)

- [functional] Package version: 0.47.1 → 0.48.0
- [functional] Package version: 0.47.1 → 0.47.2

### 2026-09-14 (score 68, 0)

- [functional] Package version: 0.45.0 → 0.47.1
- [functional] Package version: 0.45.0 → 0.47.0
- [functional] Package version: 0.45.0 → 0.46.0

### 2026-09-13 (score 68, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.44.0 → 0.45.0

## MCP tools (3)

### `scan_component` (~143 tokens)

Statically scan an AI component (agent skill, MCP server, npm/PyPI package, repository, local path or archive) for supply-chain risks, dangerous capabilities, prompt-injection surfaces, and exfiltration paths. Use this BEFORE installing or trusting a component. The scan is local, deterministic, and never executes the component's code. Returns the full SkillTotal report as JSON: verdict, risk_score (0-100), findings with file/line evidence, and capabilities.

Input parameters:

- `source` (string, required): What to scan: a local directory/file/archive path, a git URL, npm:<name>[@version], or pypi:<name>[==version].

### `diff_components` (~144 tokens)

Compare two versions of a component and report what changed: new/resolved/changed findings, capability changes, and the risk-score delta. Use for upgrade reviews (is the new version riskier than the one already vetted?). Both sides accept the same sources as scan_component.

Input parameters:

- `new` (string, required): New side. What to scan: a local directory/file/archive path, a git URL, npm:<name>[@version], or pypi:<name>[==version].
- `old` (string, required): Old side. What to scan: a local directory/file/archive path, a git URL, npm:<name>[@version], or pypi:<name>[==version].

### `list_rules` (~24 tokens)

List every SkillTotal detection rule: id, severity, category, and title.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 85
- 2026-09-19: 69
- 2026-09-18: 85
- 2026-09-17: 85
- 2026-09-16: 84
- 2026-09-15: 69
- 2026-09-14: 68
- 2026-09-13: 68
- 2026-09-12: 82
- 2026-09-11: 67
- 2026-09-10: 81
- 2026-09-09: 81
- 2026-09-08: 80
- 2026-09-07: 80
- 2026-09-06: 64
- 2026-09-05: 79
- 2026-09-04: 78
- 2026-09-03: 78
- 2026-09-02: 78
- 2026-09-01: 77
- 2026-08-31: 77
- 2026-08-30: 76
- 2026-08-29: 76
- 2026-08-28: 75
- 2026-08-27: 75
- 2026-08-26: 59
- 2026-08-25: 72
- 2026-08-24: 72
- 2026-08-23: 71
- 2026-08-22: 71

## Common questions

### What is the SkillTotal MCP server?

SkillTotal is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.skilltotal/skilltotal. Deterministic security scan of MCP servers, agent skills and npm/PyPI packages. Runs locally. This page covers its PyPI package (skilltotal).

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

SkillTotal scores 85 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. 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 SkillTotal MCP server expose?

SkillTotal exposes 3 tools: scan_component, diff_components, list_rules. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 311 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the SkillTotal MCP server still maintained?

SkillTotal 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 SkillTotal MCP server under?

SkillTotal 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

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/skilltotal/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/skilltotal
- Repository: https://github.com/pezhik/skilltotal
- Website: https://www.skilltotal.ai/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skilltotal-skilltotal/skilltotal.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skilltotal-skilltotal/skilltotal.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skilltotal-skilltotal/skilltotal