# Reuse Before Generate (npm · reuse-before-generate)

Checks whether your idea already exists before your agent builds it. Searches GitHub, npm, Python.

- Trust score: 55/100 (low)
- Change this week: +29
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- npm · `reuse-before-generate`: 55/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/aradar46-reuse-before-generate/reuse-before-generate.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/aradar46-reuse-before-generate/reuse-before-generate)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `reuse-before-generate`
- Version: `0.2.3`
- 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 2026-08-03.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 87/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - Only part of the dependency tree could be resolved (95 of 99), so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - Only part of the dependency tree could be resolved (95 of 99), so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree.
- **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 9 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 26/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (poor).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 487 tokens (~487/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **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.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add aradar46-reuse-before-generate -- npx -y reuse-before-generate
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add aradar46-reuse-before-generate -- npx -y reuse-before-generate
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "aradar46-reuse-before-generate": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "reuse-before-generate"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add aradar46-reuse-before-generate --command npx --arg -y --arg reuse-before-generate
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  aradar46-reuse-before-generate:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "reuse-before-generate"]
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aradar46-reuse-before-generate": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "reuse-before-generate"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-08-02 (score 55, +37)

- [security regression] Provenance: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Install scripts: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: unverified → poor
- [functional improvement] Maintenance: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → partial
- [functional improvement] License: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] Licence: MIT

### 2026-08-01 (score 18, −6)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-31 (score 24, −18)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-07-28 (score 42, +16)

- [functional regression] Dependency health: partial → unverified
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail

### 2026-07-27 (score 26)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `check_before_building` (~487 tokens)

Run this BEFORE scaffolding a new project or a substantial new module. Searches GitHub, npm, and Python repos for existing projects that already do what's being proposed and filters out abandoned/unmaintained results. Returns verified-maintained candidates plus scoring instructions — the calling agent (you) must then judge semantic relevance itself and present at most 3 real alternatives with a concrete 'extend this instead of rebuilding' suggestion for each, per the returned instructions. REQUIRES you to supply `keywords` yourself (see its field description) — do not guess this tool can extract good search terms on its own; generic terms like 'mcp'/'agent'/'server' will bury results in noise.

Input parameters:

- `description` (string, required): Plain-language description of the project/module about to be built — what it does, not how. The more specific, the better the match quality.
- `keywords` (array, required): REQUIRED: 3-4 precise search terms YOU infer from the description, using your own understanding of what the user actually means — do this especially when the description is vague, informal, or from a…

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aradar46-reuse-before-generate/reuse-before-generate#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 55
- 2026-08-02: 55
- 2026-08-01: 18
- 2026-07-31: 24
- 2026-07-30: 42
- 2026-07-28: 42
- 2026-07-27: 26

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/reuse-before-generate
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/reuse-before-generate
- Repository: https://github.com/aradar46/reuse-before-generate
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aradar46-reuse-before-generate/reuse-before-generate/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aradar46-reuse-before-generate/reuse-before-generate/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aradar46-reuse-before-generate/reuse-before-generate