# Intercept (npm · intercept-mcp)

Give your AI the ability to read the web. Fetches URLs as clean markdown with multi-tier fallback.

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +18
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- npm · `intercept-mcp`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/bighippoman-intercept-mcp/intercept-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/bighippoman-intercept-mcp/intercept-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `intercept-mcp`
- Version: `3.0.8`
- 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 (119 of 123), 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 (119 of 123), 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 (ISC).
  - Actively maintained (last published 40 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 198 tokens (~99/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - 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 bighippoman-intercept-mcp -- npx -y intercept-mcp
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add bighippoman-intercept-mcp -- npx -y intercept-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add bighippoman-intercept-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg intercept-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  bighippoman-intercept-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "intercept-mcp"]
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bighippoman-intercept-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "intercept-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 64, +43)

- [security regression] Provenance: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Install scripts: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] License: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → partial
- [functional improvement] Maintenance: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: unverified → good
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Licence: ISC

### 2026-08-01 (score 21, −5)

- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified

### 2026-07-31 (score 26, −20)

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

### 2026-07-27 (score 46)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `fetch` (~117 tokens)

Fetch URL

Fetch a URL and return its content as clean markdown. Handles Twitter/X tweets, YouTube videos, arXiv papers, and PDFs directly. Falls back to a multi-tier chain: Jina Reader, Wayback Machine, raw fetch, RSS, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, HackerNews, Reddit, OG meta. Results are cached for the session.

Input parameters:

- `maxTier` (integer): Stop at this tier (1-5, default 5). Lower = faster but fewer fallbacks.
- `url` (string, required): The URL to fetch

### `search` (~81 tokens)

Web Search

Search the web and return results. Uses Brave Search API if BRAVE_API_KEY is set, otherwise falls back to SearXNG. Set BRAVE_API_KEY for best results (free tier: 2,000 queries/month).

Input parameters:

- `count` (integer): Number of results (1-20, default 5)
- `query` (string, required): Search query

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/bighippoman-intercept-mcp/intercept-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 64
- 2026-08-02: 64
- 2026-08-01: 21
- 2026-07-31: 26
- 2026-07-30: 46
- 2026-07-28: 46
- 2026-07-27: 46

## Links

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