# dev.smallprint/smallprint (npm · smallprint-mcp)

The small print of MCP servers, skills and plugins, hashed, diffed and graded, from the record.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-26

## Components

- npm · `smallprint-mcp`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-smallprint-smallprint/smallprint-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-smallprint-smallprint/smallprint-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `smallprint-mcp`
- Version: `0.2.2`
- 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 2026-09-26.

- **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.
  - 31 of 96 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 19/100
  - Repository check failed: no source repository is declared.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1361 tokens (~340/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 40/100
  - Stability observed for 12 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.
  - 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 4 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 dev.smallprint/smallprint MCP server?

dev.smallprint/smallprint runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y smallprint-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 dev-smallprint-smallprint -- npx -y smallprint-mcp
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add dev-smallprint-smallprint -- npx -y smallprint-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add dev-smallprint-smallprint --command npx --arg -y --arg smallprint-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  dev-smallprint-smallprint:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "smallprint-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add dev-smallprint-smallprint -t stdio -c npx -a -y smallprint-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-smallprint-smallprint": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "smallprint-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.

### 2026-09-26 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-25 (score 68, 0)

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

### 2026-09-24 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-22 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-20 (score 66, +1)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.17 → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.2

### 2026-09-18 (score 65, +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.

### 2026-09-17 (score 64, +1)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [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 regression] Schema quality: pass → fail
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 50% → 100%
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.10
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Schema quality: good → excellent
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.0 → 0.2.0

### 2026-09-15 (score 63, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

## MCP tools (4)

### `lookup_entry` (~249 tokens)

Look up an entry on the Small Print record

What the record holds for one MCP server, skill or plugin: versions on record, the tools read from the pinned version, how many releases changed the small print and the worst grade, and the advisories that name it. Use it first, when nothing about the entry is known yet, or to confirm an entry exists before the other tools; use changes_since for the diffs and advisories_for for advisory detail. Not for private or unpublished servers, which have no page. Read-only: one HTTPS GET to smallprint.dev per call, no account, no key, nothing about the caller sent, and the server or skill asked about is never run or contacted. Rate limited to one entry per request; a 429 answer says to wait a minute. A name not in the catalog returns a plain error, not a guess.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): The entry, with its registry prefix when known: npm:@scope/name, pypi:name, mcp-registry:io.github.owner/server, skills.sh:owner/repo/skill, oci:ghcr.io/owner/image. A bare name is read as an npm pac…

Output parameters:

- `advisories` (array)
- `canonicalName` (string)
- `kind` (string)
- `latestVersion` (string|null)
- `releasesChanged` (number)
- `toolsRead` (number|null)
- `url` (string)
- `versionsOnRecord` (number)
- `worstGrade` (string)

### `changes_since` (~358 tokens)

Changes to an entry's small print

The releases of one entry whose tool descriptions, schemas or instructions changed, each with its diff, its grade and the rule that graded it (rules at https://smallprint.dev/how-we-grade). Use it to read what actually changed, after lookup_entry or changed_since_approval said something did; use changed_since_approval instead when the question is only whether anything moved since an approved version. Filters: since keeps releases published on or after a date; min_severity drops changes below a grade (default low, so plain version bumps and identical releases are never listed). Returns at most 12 releases in text; the structured result carries all of them. Read-only: one HTTPS GET to smallprint.dev per call, no account, no key, nothing about the caller sent, and the server or skill asked about is never run or contacted. Rate limited to one entry per request; a 429 answer says to wait a minute. A name not in the catalog returns a plain error, not a guess.

Input parameters:

- `min_severity` (string): Lowest grade to include: info, low, medium, high or critical. Default low. Use high to see only changes that name a secret, a destination or an instruction to hide something.
- `name` (string, required): The entry, with its registry prefix when known: npm:@scope/name, pypi:name, mcp-registry:io.github.owner/server, skills.sh:owner/repo/skill, oci:ghcr.io/owner/image. A bare name is read as an npm pac…
- `since` (string): ISO date, YYYY-MM-DD; only releases published on or after it. Omit for every release on record.

Output parameters:

- `canonicalName` (string)
- `releases` (array)
- `total` (number)
- `url` (string)

### `advisories_for` (~275 tokens)

Advisories that name an entry

Every public security advisory on record that names one entry, each attributed to the database or report that published it, with its severity criterion and the affected version range. Use it when deciding whether a specific version is inside a known advisory, or after lookup_entry reported advisories; it adds nothing for an entry with none. Small Print attributes and never judges: the severity is the source's or a printed CVSS band. Read-only: one HTTPS GET to smallprint.dev per call, no account, no key, nothing about the caller sent, and the server or skill asked about is never run or contacted. Rate limited to one entry per request; a 429 answer says to wait a minute. A name not in the catalog returns a plain error, not a guess.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): The entry, with its registry prefix when known: npm:@scope/name, pypi:name, mcp-registry:io.github.owner/server, skills.sh:owner/repo/skill, oci:ghcr.io/owner/image. A bare name is read as an npm pac…
- `version` (string): A version string to read the affected ranges against, for example 1.4.2. Optional; the ranges are returned either way and the caller compares.

Output parameters:

- `advisories` (array)
- `canonicalName` (string)
- `total` (number)
- `url` (string)

### `changed_since_approval` (~340 tokens)

Has the small print changed since it was approved?

Yes or no, before using a server or skill: has its small print moved since the version, content hash or date that was reviewed? The answer opens with UNCHANGED, CHANGED or UNKNOWN, then the releases that changed it since and their worst grade, then whether the review can stand. Use it on every run when an approval is on file, instead of re-reading the tools; use lookup_entry when nothing was approved yet and changes_since to read the diffs after a CHANGED answer. UNKNOWN means the approved version is not on record or its small print was never read, so nothing is compared; treat it as no answer, not as safe. Read-only: one HTTPS GET to smallprint.dev per call, no account, no key, nothing about the caller sent, and the server or skill asked about is never run or contacted. Rate limited to one entry per request; a 429 answer says to wait a minute. A name not in the catalog returns a plain error, not a guess.

Input parameters:

- `approved` (string, required): What was reviewed: a version string exactly as published (1.4.2), the 64-character hex content hash from an earlier answer, or an ISO date YYYY-MM-DD. A date compares against releases published after…
- `name` (string, required): The entry, with its registry prefix when known: npm:@scope/name, pypi:name, mcp-registry:io.github.owner/server, skills.sh:owner/repo/skill, oci:ghcr.io/owner/image. A bare name is read as an npm pac…

Output parameters:

- `advisories` (number)
- `canonicalName` (string)
- `latestContentHash` (string|null)
- `latestVersion` (string|null)
- `releasesSince` (array)
- `status` (string)
- `url` (string)
- `worstGrade` (string|null)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-26: 69
- 2026-09-25: 68
- 2026-09-24: 68
- 2026-09-23: 67
- 2026-09-22: 67
- 2026-09-21: 66
- 2026-09-20: 66
- 2026-09-19: 65
- 2026-09-18: 65
- 2026-09-17: 64
- 2026-09-16: 63
- 2026-09-15: 63
- 2026-09-14: 48

## Common questions

### What is the dev.smallprint/smallprint MCP server?

dev.smallprint/smallprint is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as dev.smallprint/smallprint. The small print of MCP servers, skills and plugins, hashed, diffed and graded, from the record. This page covers its npm package (smallprint-mcp).

### Is the dev.smallprint/smallprint MCP server safe to use?

dev.smallprint/smallprint scores 69 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 26 September 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 dev.smallprint/smallprint MCP server expose?

dev.smallprint/smallprint exposes 4 tools: lookup_entry, changes_since, advisories_for, changed_since_approval. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,222 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the dev.smallprint/smallprint MCP server still maintained?

dev.smallprint/smallprint is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 26 September 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 dev.smallprint/smallprint MCP server under?

dev.smallprint/smallprint 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/smallprint-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/smallprint-mcp
- Website: https://smallprint.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-smallprint-smallprint/smallprint-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-smallprint-smallprint/smallprint-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-smallprint-smallprint/smallprint-mcp