skimread
PYPI · SKIMREAD
Lossless context guard for coding agents: command digests, file outlines, line-range reads.
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Last scanned (12 hours ago)
Scores higher than 63% of PyPI servers
Category Developer Tools
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 Security50
- Malware scan not yet available for this package.Unverified
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to avikchakraborty060-create/The-top-innovation). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability65
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 340 tokens (~68/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management10
- Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage85
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 54% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 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.
- 23 Oct 26 −15
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- 22 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 21 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 20 Oct 26 63
First indexed and scored.
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 23 Oct 2026 · Analysed pypi/skimread@0.1.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | pypi |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | avikchakraborty060-create/The-top-innovation |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/avikchakraborty060-create/The-top-innovation/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3330812849 |
| Predicate type | PyPI publish attestation https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/publish/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha256:b848263070973832c1cefb99eb21971ff9ce4c65b207829ec17302c611486a24 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| build_backend | allowlisted | setuptools.build_meta |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| 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 →
list ~31
List recent runs stored by skimread (id, command, exit code, size).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
outline ~50
Structural outline of a file: symbols/headings/keys with line ranges, so you can read only the slice you need. Use before reading any file longer than ~300 lines.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| path | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
read ~52
Read a line range of a file with line numbers ('start' and 'end' are 1-based, inclusive).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| end | integer | – | – |
| path | string | yes | – |
| start | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
run ~113
Run a shell command and return a short, lossless digest of its output (errors, failures and summaries kept; noise folded). The digest ends with an id; use `show` to fetch any part of the full output without re-running the command.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| budget | integer | – | Digest size in characters (default from config, 6000) |
| command | string | yes | Shell command line |
| cwd | string | – | Working directory (optional) |
| timeout | number | – | Seconds before the command is killed (optional) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
show ~94
Show the full output of a previous `run` by id, a line range (e.g. '120-180'), or lines matching a regex with context.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| context | integer | – | Context lines around grep matches (default 2) |
| grep | string | – | Regex to search for |
| id | integer | yes | – |
| range | string | – | 'A-B', 'A:', ':B' or 'A' |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the skimread MCP server?
skimread runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx skimread. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · skimread
claude mcp add avikchakraborty060-create-skimread -- uvx skimread
What is the skimread MCP server?
skimread is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.avikchakraborty060-create/skimread. Lossless context guard for coding agents: command digests, file outlines, line-range reads. This page covers its PyPI package (skimread).
Is the skimread MCP server safe to use?
skimread scores 64 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 23 October 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 skimread MCP server expose?
skimread exposes 5 tools: run, show, outline, read, list. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 340 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the skimread MCP server still maintained?
skimread is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 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 skimread MCP server under?
skimread declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.