# Keep Mac Awake (npm · keepmacawake-mcp)

Keep a MacBook awake with the lid closed while an agent's long task runs (Keep Mac Awake app).

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

## Components

- npm · `keepmacawake-mcp`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-keepmacawake-mcp/keepmacawake-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-keepmacawake-mcp/keepmacawake-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `keepmacawake-mcp`
- Version: `1.0.1`
- 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**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 0 of 3 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - 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 2 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 533 tokens (~177/item across 3 items; 3 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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (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

### How do I install the Keep Mac Awake MCP server?

Keep Mac Awake runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y keepmacawake-mcp. 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-keepmacawake-mcp -- npx -y keepmacawake-mcp
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-keepmacawake-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "keepmacawake-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add com-keepmacawake-mcp -- npx -y keepmacawake-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-keepmacawake-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg keepmacawake-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-keepmacawake-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "keepmacawake-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-keepmacawake-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "keepmacawake-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-keepmacawake-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y keepmacawake-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-keepmacawake-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "keepmacawake-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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 71, +26)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → 1.00

### 2026-11-02 (score 45)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `keep_awake_status` (~49 tokens)

Keep Mac Awake status

Shows whether Keep Mac Awake is keeping this Mac awake: whether a session runs and its time left, the free trial, and a newer version. Read only. Call it before starting a session.

Output parameters:

- `app_message` (string)
- `error_code` (string)
- `error_reason` (string)
- `exit_code` (integer)
- `max_hours` (integer)
- `needs` (string)
- `result` (string)
- `state`
- `website` (string)

### `keep_awake_start` (~183 tokens)

Start a Keep Mac Awake session

Keeps this MacBook awake with the lid closed, for a number of whole hours or without a time limit, through the Keep Mac Awake app. Use it before a long task the user asked for, with hours a little longer than the task. Ask the user first and pass user_agreed for a session without a time limit, or when keep_awake_status shows the trial has not started. During the free trial a session lasts at most 8 hours.

Input parameters:

- `hours` (integer): Length of the session in whole hours, 1 to 168. Leave it out only with no_time_limit.
- `no_time_limit` (boolean): True for a session without a time limit. Only after the user agreed to it; needs user_agreed.
- `user_agreed` (boolean): True only when the user said yes to this session in this conversation.

Output parameters:

- `app_message` (string)
- `error_code` (string)
- `error_reason` (string)
- `exit_code` (integer)
- `max_hours` (integer)
- `needs` (string)
- `result` (string)
- `state`
- `website` (string)

### `keep_awake_stop` (~55 tokens)

Stop the Keep Mac Awake session

Ends the running Keep Mac Awake session and restores the normal sleep setting. Use it when a task you started the session for is done. Do not stop a session the user started themselves, or one they asked to keep on.

Output parameters:

- `app_message` (string)
- `error_code` (string)
- `error_reason` (string)
- `exit_code` (integer)
- `max_hours` (integer)
- `needs` (string)
- `result` (string)
- `state`
- `website` (string)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 71
- 2026-11-03: 71
- 2026-11-02: 45

## Common questions

### What is the Keep Mac Awake MCP server?

Keep Mac Awake is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.keepmacawake/mcp. Keep a MacBook awake with the lid closed while an agent's long task runs (Keep Mac Awake app). This page covers its npm package (keepmacawake-mcp).

### Is the Keep Mac Awake MCP server safe to use?

Keep Mac Awake 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 Keep Mac Awake MCP server expose?

Keep Mac Awake exposes 3 tools: keep_awake_status, keep_awake_start, keep_awake_stop. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 287 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Keep Mac Awake MCP server still maintained?

Keep Mac Awake 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 Keep Mac Awake MCP server under?

Keep Mac Awake 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/keepmacawake-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/keepmacawake-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/bartdudzic/keepmacawake
- Website: https://keepmacawake.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-keepmacawake-mcp/keepmacawake-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-keepmacawake-mcp/keepmacawake-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-keepmacawake-mcp/keepmacawake-mcp