MarketNow
NPM · MARKETNOW-MCP · 2 COMPONENTS
Verify agent credentials, 9 formats, scam domains; search 70k+ MCP servers with auth-gate state.
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Last scanned (14 hours ago)
Scores higher than 39% of npm servers
Category Security
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 Security81
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- CVE check failed: a known high-severity CVE affects @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 0.5.0, a direct dependency. A fixed version is available. View diagnostics → Fail
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 7 of 15 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- 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 12 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability69
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2794 tokens (~186/item across 15 items; 15 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management63
- Stability observed for 19 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 15 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 15 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities20
- Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
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.
- 16 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.
- 14 Oct 26 +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.
- 13 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 12 Oct 26 +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.
- 11 Oct 26 +5
- Security disclosure: fail → unverified ▼ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.40 ▲ functional
- 2 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 1 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: fail → unverified ▼ functional
- 30 Sept 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
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 18 Oct 2026 · Analysed npm/marketnow-mcp@1.15.0
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 →
Vulnerabilities 1 finding
| ID | CVE | Severity | Vector | Fix available |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w | CVE-2025-66414 | high | yes |
Background: What a vulnerability scan can and cannot prove →
Dependencies 15 packages
| Packages resolved | 15 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 7 |
| 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 →
marketnow_check_revocation ~233
Check the revocation status of an Agent Trust Card (card_id) or CA key (kid) against the signed MarketNow Revocation Registry (MNR-CRL-1.0) + live ledger. Use this BEFORE trusting or caching any ATC — a card that verified cryptographically yesterday may be REVOKED today (e.g. mn-ca-002 was revoked for key compromise on 2026-09-08). Returns status (VALID/EXPIRED/REVOKED/SUPERSEDED/UNKNOWN) + recommendation (PERMIT/DENY), fail-closed on unknown subjects, with the CRL signature embedded so you can verify the signed layer independently.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| card_id | string | – | Agent Trust Card ID (e.g. ATC-2026-1509360). Exactly one of card_id / kid. |
| kid | string | – | CA key ID (e.g. mn-ca-002, mn-ca-003). Exactly one of card_id / kid. |
| nonce | string | – | Optional client nonce — echoed in the response for anti-replay assurance. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_fingerprint_tool ~190
Cryptographically fingerprint MCP tool definitions (TFP-1.0): SHA-256 over the RFC 8785 JCS canonical form of each tool plus a manifest fingerprint for the whole tools/list surface. Use this (1) on first contact with any MCP server to PIN its tool surface, and (2) on every subsequent tools/list with the pinned manifest to detect drift — the OWASP MCP Cheat Sheet control 'verify tool descriptions haven't changed' (tool poisoning / rug-pull redefinitions). Fully self-contained: no network calls.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| pinned | object | – | Optional: the manifest from a previous marketnow_fingerprint_tool call ({ tools: [{name, fingerprint_sha256}], manifest_fingerprint_sha256 }) — enables the drift report (added/removed/changed). |
| tools | array | yes | Tool definitions exactly as returned by tools/list: [{ name, description, inputSchema }]. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_get_install_command ~95
Get the exact `npx` install command for a skill. Use this when an agent has already selected a skill via marketnow_search_skills or marketnow_recommend_skills and is ready to install. All skills are currently FREE — no purchase step is required.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skill_id | string | yes | Skill ID (e.g. mn-ai-00001) or slug. Alphanumeric and hyphens only. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_get_manifest ~63
Get marketplace metadata: total skill count, pricing tiers, API endpoint inventory, and aggregate security metrics (Sentinel checks performed, threats detected, skills quarantined). Use this to ground an agent's understanding of marketplace scale and security posture before any install or trust decision.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_get_owasp_compliance ~144
Get MarketNow's alignment with the OWASP MCP Cheat Sheet (12 controls — tool fingerprinting, capability declarations, least-privilege, output validation, etc.). Also returns the live tool fingerprint (SHA-256) and capability manifest (filesystem/network/shell/credentials/process inference) for any registered skill. Use this BEFORE invoking a skill whose blast radius you need to bound — it tells you exactly what filesystem, network, shell, and credential access that skill is capable of.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skill_id | string | – | Optional skill ID to fetch the per-tool SHA-256 fingerprint and inferred capability manifest. If omitted, returns only the global compliance matrix. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_get_skill ~121
Fetch full metadata for a single skill by its ID or slug. Returns README excerpt, install command, Sentinel security score, license, and the canonical marketplace URL. Use this AFTER marketnow_search_skills or marketnow_recommend_skills when the agent needs the complete skill record before invoking marketnow_get_install_command.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skill_id | string | yes | Skill ID (e.g. mn-ai-00001) or slug (e.g. web-scraper). Alphanumeric and hyphens only — no slashes, spaces, or special characters. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_list_categories ~51
List all marketplace skill categories with live counts. Use this ONCE at the start of a session to map the taxonomy before doing a category-filtered search with marketnow_search_skills. No input parameters.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_lookup_referral ~80
Look up referral stats for a code you own: total clicks, installs, purchases, and commission earned. Use this after marketnow_mint_referral to measure the performance of your viral loop.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ref_code | string | yes | Referral code. Must start with "ref_" (e.g. ref_a1b2c3d4). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_mint_referral ~116
Mint a unique referral code (ref_xxxxxxxx) tied to your agent_id. Share it with other agents — when they make a purchase using your code, you earn 5% commission. Check your stats with marketnow_lookup_referral. Use this to participate in the marketplace's viral loop once you have an established agent_id.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| agent_id | string | yes | Your agent ID. Format: 3–64 alphanumeric, hyphen, or underscore characters (e.g. agent_claude_001). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_recommend_skills ~160
Get AI-ranked skill recommendations for a task described in natural language. Returns the best-matching MCP servers with Sentinel security scores and match_score. Use this when the agent knows the GOAL (e.g. "scrape a website", "send a Discord message", "query PostgreSQL") but has not yet decided which skill to install. Faster and more accurate than marketnow_search_skills for open-ended goals.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of recommendations to return. Default: 5. Hard ceiling: 20. |
| task | string | yes | What you want to do, in plain English (e.g. "scrape a website", "query PostgreSQL", "send a Discord message"). Minimum 3 characters. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_search_skills ~233
Search the MarketNow marketplace for MCP-compatible skills. Returns matching skills with price, category, install command, and Sentinel security score. Use this whenever an agent needs to discover a tool for a specific task — preferred entry point before any install or recommendation. Results are bounded to `limit` (1–50) and sorted by the requested criterion.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Optional category filter. Must be one of the known marketplace categories. |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results to return. Default: 10. Hard ceiling: 50. |
| max_price | number | – | Optional upper bound on price in USD (e.g. 2.99). Set to 0 to list only free skills. |
| query | string | – | Natural language or keyword search (e.g. "scrape website", "discord bot", "query postgres"). Leave empty to browse by category alone. |
| sort_by | string | – | Sort criterion. Default: relevance. Use sentinel_desc to surface the highest-security-scored skills first. |
| sort_order | string | – | Sort direction. Default: desc. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_submit_skill ~272
Submit a GitHub repository containing an MCP server to the MarketNow marketplace. The server runs L1.5 metadata checks + L1.7 malware scan synchronously, persists the submission to the public ledger, and queues the L2 sandbox audit (~1h). If L1.5+L1.7 pass, the skill becomes discoverable via marketnow_search_skills and is pre-allocated an Agent Trust Card. FREE. Use this when an agent encounters a useful MCP repo that should be added to the marketplace.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| description | string | – | Optional short description. Auto-detected from README if omitted. |
| name | string | – | Optional display name. Auto-detected from repo if omitted. |
| ref_code | string | – | Optional referral code if you were referred by another agent. Format: ref_xxxxxxxx. |
| repo_url | string | yes | GitHub repo URL. Must be HTTPS and point to github.com (e.g. https://github.com/user/my-mcp-server). |
| submitter_agent_id | string | – | Optional agent ID for attribution and ATC pre-allocation. Format: 3–64 alphanumeric, hyphen, or underscore characters (e.g. agent_claude_001). |
| submitter_email | string | – | Optional email for review notifications. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_verify_atc_spec ~767
Verify ANY Agent Trust Card (ATC) against the open ATC/1.0 specification — works regardless of issuer (MarketNow Sentinel CA, a third-party CA, or a self-signed test CA). SECURITY MODEL (v1.11.0, fail-closed): default mode is TRUST — you MUST pass ca_public_key (a trusted CA key you obtained OUT-OF-BAND from the issuer's official channel, base64 SPKI). Without it the result is DENY/CONFIGURATION_ERROR, because a card can carry the very key that verifies its own signature. When the card sets revocation.revocation_check_required=true you MUST also pass revocation_status (a pre-fetched revocation list or {revoked:boolean} status) — otherwise DENY. For debugging/interop ONLY, mode:'self_described' verifies the signature math against the card-embedded key and is explicitly labeled NOT a trust decision. Returns per-control pass/fail for all 8 required controls (ATC-001 Identity, ATC-002 Attestation, ATC-003 Capabilities, ATC-004 Evidence, ATC-005 Risk, ATC-006 Signature, ATC-007 Revocation, ATC-008 Expiration) plus verification_mode (TRUST|SELF_DESCRIBED) and trust_decision (TRUST|DENY|NOT_APPLICABLE). Self-contained: node:crypto + RFC 8785 JCS + Ed25519 (RFC 8032), no network calls.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| atc | object | yes | The complete ATC JSON document to verify. Must include spec_version="ATC/1.0", card_id (pattern: ATC-YYYY-NNNNNNN), issuer, identity, attestation (with subject_public_key, signature, signed_payload_h… |
| ca_public_key | string | – | TRUSTED CA public key (base64 SPKI) that YOU obtained out-of-band from the issuer's official channel (e.g. https://www.marketnow.site/api/atc?action=ca-key for MarketNow cards). REQUIRED for a trust… |
| fetch_revocation | boolean | – | Deprecated/no-op: this verifier is self-contained (no network). Pass revocation_status instead. |
| mode | string | – | trust (DEFAULT): fail-closed verification — ca_public_key required, revocation evidence required when the card demands it, never falls back to the card-embedded key. self_described: debugging/interop… |
| revocation_status | object | – | Revocation evidence, required in TRUST mode when atc.revocation.revocation_check_required=true. Accepts: (a) a pre-fetched revocation list — MarketNow live CRL/ledger {cards:[{card_id,status,reason?,… |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_verify_receipt ~135
Verify a signed delivery proof (action-receipt) for a completed purchase. Receipts are emitted on every paid purchase and persisted to a public ledger. Returns what was delivered (skill_id, license_key, amount), the settle txhash, and interop fields for the Vibe action-ref system. Use this to confirm a purchase actually completed before granting the agent downstream access.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| receipt_id | string | yes | Receipt ID. Must start with "rcpt_" followed by at least 16 alphanumeric characters (e.g. rcpt_c8b9dc67f88e4da5bd3a). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
marketnow_verify_trust ~134
Verify an Agent Trust Card (ATC) before interacting with an untrusted agent or skill. Checks the Ed25519 signature, expiry date, and revocation status. Returns `sentinel_review_score` (0–10, review evidence — not a verdict) and `decision_authority="consumer"` (the runtime makes the trust decision, not the card). Use this BEFORE executing any MCP tool whose provenance you cannot otherwise establish.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| card_id | string | yes | ATC card ID. Format: ATC-YYYY-NNNNNNN (e.g. ATC-2026-7777670). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the MarketNow MCP server?
MarketNow runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y marketnow-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 · marketnow-mcp
claude mcp add alicelabs-llc-marketnow -- npx -y marketnow-mcp
What is the MarketNow MCP server?
MarketNow is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.alicelabs-llc/marketnow. Verify agent credentials, 9 formats, scam domains; search 70k+ MCP servers with auth-gate state. This page covers its npm package (marketnow-mcp).
Is the MarketNow MCP server safe to use?
MarketNow scores 69 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We recorded 1 known advisory against it as of 18 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 MarketNow MCP server expose?
MarketNow exposes 15 tools: marketnow_search_skills, marketnow_get_skill, marketnow_list_categories, marketnow_get_manifest, marketnow_get_install_command, and 10 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,794 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the MarketNow MCP server still maintained?
MarketNow is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 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 MarketNow MCP server under?
MarketNow declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.