# GitHubCard (npm · @ghcardhq/ghcard)

Create GitHub profile and repository cards for READMEs, link previews and social posts.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `githubcard.com`: 68/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/githubcard.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/githubcard)
- npm · `@ghcardhq/ghcard`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/ghcardhq-ghcard.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/ghcardhq-ghcard)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@ghcardhq/ghcard`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- 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 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 98/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 30 of 93 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Build provenance is cryptographically sound, but it attests a different repository to the one declared in the registry. Most often the declared URL is simply stale.
  - 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**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1476 tokens (~147/item across 10 items; 10 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **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.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 11 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 GitHubCard MCP server?

GitHubCard runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @ghcardhq/ghcard. 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 com-githubcard-mcp -- npx -y @ghcardhq/ghcard
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-githubcard-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ghcardhq/ghcard"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-githubcard-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ghcardhq/ghcard"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add com-githubcard-mcp -- npx -y @ghcardhq/ghcard
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-githubcard-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@ghcardhq/ghcard"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-githubcard-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg @ghcardhq/ghcard
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-githubcard-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@ghcardhq/ghcard"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-githubcard-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@ghcardhq/ghcard"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-githubcard-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y @ghcardhq/ghcard
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-githubcard-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ghcardhq/ghcard"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 70, +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.

### 2026-11-01 (score 69, +15)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [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
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-31 (score 54)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (10)

### `create_card` (~203 tokens)

Create GitHub card

Create (or reuse) a published card image for a GitHub profile or repository. Returns svg/png URLs and markdown/html embed snippets. Idempotent; counts once against the daily quota.

Input parameters:

- `design` (object): a design document from get_template_design or get_card_design, possibly edited; replaces template and palette
- `format` (string): which link to return as url: "svg" (default; best for README embeds) or "png". Both are always in urls
- `palette` (string): background palette id from list_palettes; omit for the template's own background. For any other colour use design
- `subject` (string, required): GitHub username (e.g. octocat) or owner/repo (e.g. octocat/hello-world)
- `template` (string): template id from list_templates; omit for the subject's default layout
- `watermark` (boolean): false removes the watermark (Pro only; ignored on Free)

### `validate_card` (~216 tokens)

Check a card request

Dry run of create_card with the same inputs: checks template/palette ids, Pro features and the design document, without creating anything or using quota. warnings lists layers that reach outside the artboard (they would be clipped); fix those before create_card.

Input parameters:

- `design` (object): a design document from get_template_design or get_card_design, possibly edited; replaces template and palette
- `format` (string): which link to return as url: "svg" (default; best for README embeds) or "png". Both are always in urls
- `palette` (string): background palette id from list_palettes; omit for the template's own background. For any other colour use design
- `subject` (string, required): GitHub username (e.g. octocat) or owner/repo (e.g. octocat/hello-world)
- `template` (string): template id from list_templates; omit for the subject's default layout
- `watermark` (boolean): false removes the watermark (Pro only; ignored on Free)

### `list_templates` (~92 tokens)

List card templates

List card layouts with their ids, scope (profile/repo/all), size, widget types, and whether they need Pro.

Input parameters:

- `freeOnly` (boolean): only templates available on the Free plan
- `scope` (string): profile or repo; omit for all. Results include scope=all templates, which fit both
- `widgets` (array): only templates containing all of these widget types (from list_components)

### `list_palettes` (~18 tokens)

List background palettes

List background palette ids accepted by create_card.

### `list_components` (~31 tokens)

List widget types

List the widget (layer) types a design can contain, with the scope (profile/repo) each fits.

### `get_template_design` (~95 tokens)

Get a template's design

Return a template's layout as an editable design document (artboard + layers). Costs no quota. Edit it and pass it to create_card as design.

Input parameters:

- `palette` (string): palette id to apply; replaces the template's background in the returned design
- `subject` (string): username or owner/repo the card is for; decides profile vs repo layouts
- `template` (string, required): template id from list_templates

### `get_card_design` (~58 tokens)

Get a card's design

Return the design document of one of the account's cards, to edit and re-submit through create_card as design (which creates a new card; the original is unchanged).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): card id from create_card or list_cards

### `list_cards` (~58 tokens)

List my cards

List cards this account created through the API, most recently requested first. Paginated with nextCursor.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): nextCursor from a previous call
- `limit` (integer): page size 1-100 (default 20)

### `delete_card` (~48 tokens)

Delete a card

Permanently delete one of the account's cards. Its links stop working everywhere they are embedded. Confirm with the user first.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): card id from create_card or list_cards

### `get_usage` (~47 tokens)

Get plan and quota

Show the account's plan (free/pro) and how many cards it can still create today (cards.remaining, resets 00:00 UTC). The ai quota is reserved for future AI tools.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 71
- 2026-11-03: 70
- 2026-11-02: 70
- 2026-11-01: 69
- 2026-10-31: 54

## Common questions

### What is the GitHubCard MCP server?

GitHubCard is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.githubcard/mcp. Create GitHub profile and repository cards for READMEs, link previews and social posts. This page covers its npm package (@ghcardhq/ghcard).

### Is the GitHubCard MCP server safe to use?

GitHubCard scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 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 GitHubCard MCP server expose?

GitHubCard exposes 10 tools: create_card, validate_card, list_templates, list_palettes, list_components, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 866 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the GitHubCard MCP server still maintained?

GitHubCard is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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 GitHubCard MCP server under?

GitHubCard 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

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ghcardhq/ghcard
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@ghcardhq/ghcard
- Repository: https://github.com/ghcardhq/githubcard-mcp
- Website: https://githubcard.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/ghcardhq-ghcard.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/ghcardhq-ghcard.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-githubcard-mcp/ghcardhq-ghcard