# skimread (pypi · skimread)

Lossless context guard for coding agents: command digests, file outlines, line-range reads.

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- pypi · `skimread`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/avikchakraborty060-create-skimread/skimread.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/avikchakraborty060-create-skimread/skimread)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `skimread`
- Version: `0.1.1`
- 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 2026-10-23.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to avikchakraborty060-create/The-top-innovation).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 340 tokens (~68/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 85/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 54% 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add avikchakraborty060-create-skimread -- uvx skimread
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avikchakraborty060-create-skimread": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "skimread"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "avikchakraborty060-create-skimread": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "skimread"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add avikchakraborty060-create-skimread -- uvx skimread
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "avikchakraborty060-create-skimread": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "skimread"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add avikchakraborty060-create-skimread --command uvx --arg skimread
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  avikchakraborty060-create-skimread:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["skimread"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "avikchakraborty060-create-skimread": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "skimread"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add avikchakraborty060-create-skimread -t stdio -c uvx -a skimread
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avikchakraborty060-create-skimread": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "skimread"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-23 (score 64, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-10-22 (score 79, +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.

### 2026-10-21 (score 78, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-20 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `run` (~113 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (integer): Digest size in characters (default from config, 6000)
- `command` (string, required): Shell command line
- `cwd` (string): Working directory (optional)
- `timeout` (number): Seconds before the command is killed (optional)

### `show` (~94 tokens)

Show the full output of a previous `run` by id, a line range (e.g. '120-180'), or lines matching a regex with context.

Input parameters:

- `context` (integer): Context lines around grep matches (default 2)
- `grep` (string): Regex to search for
- `id` (integer, required)
- `range` (string): 'A-B', 'A:', ':B' or 'A'

### `outline` (~50 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `path` (string, required)

### `read` (~52 tokens)

Read a line range of a file with line numbers ('start' and 'end' are 1-based, inclusive).

Input parameters:

- `end` (integer)
- `path` (string, required)
- `start` (integer)

### `list` (~31 tokens)

List recent runs stored by skimread (id, command, exit code, size).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/avikchakraborty060-create-skimread/skimread#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 64
- 2026-10-22: 79
- 2026-10-21: 78
- 2026-10-20: 63

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/skimread/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/skimread
- Repository: https://github.com/avikchakraborty060-create/The-top-innovation
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/avikchakraborty060-create-skimread/skimread.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/avikchakraborty060-create-skimread/skimread.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/avikchakraborty060-create-skimread/skimread