# chargehand (nuget · Chargehand)

Runs coding-agent workers on a codebase question; every claim in the answer carries evidence.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- nuget · `Chargehand`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/egoushka-chargehand/chargehand.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/egoushka-chargehand/chargehand)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `nuget`
- Package: `Chargehand`
- Version: `0.19.11`
- 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.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Build provenance not yet verified.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 593 tokens (~197/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**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 96/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 86% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (67% 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).

## Install

### How do I install the chargehand MCP server?

chargehand runs locally as a NuGet package, launched with dnx Chargehand@0.19.11 --yes. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 3 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add egoushka-chargehand -- dnx Chargehand@0.19.11 --yes
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "egoushka-chargehand": {
      "command": "dnx",
      "args": [
        "Chargehand@0.19.11",
        "--yes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "egoushka-chargehand": {
      "command": "dnx",
      "args": [
        "Chargehand@0.19.11",
        "--yes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add egoushka-chargehand -- dnx Chargehand@0.19.11 --yes
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "egoushka-chargehand": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "dnx",
        "Chargehand@0.19.11",
        "--yes"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  egoushka-chargehand:
    command: "dnx"
    args: ["Chargehand@0.19.11", "--yes"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "egoushka-chargehand": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "dnx",
      "Arguments": [
        "Chargehand@0.19.11",
        "--yes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "egoushka-chargehand": {
      "command": "dnx",
      "args": [
        "Chargehand@0.19.11",
        "--yes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 72, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-03 (score 57, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.19.9 → 0.19.11
- [functional] Package version: 0.19.9 → 0.19.10

### 2026-11-01 (score 71, +1)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.07 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] Schema quality: Schema quality not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional] Package version: 0.19.8 → 0.19.9

### 2026-10-31 (score 70, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-30 (score 55, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Security disclosure: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.19.6 → 0.19.8
- [functional] Package version: 0.19.6 → 0.19.7

### 2026-10-29 (score 69, +29)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [security] Tool safety: Tool safety not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the tool definitions this version of the package serves yet.
- [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 improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.00
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 67
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: good
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 86
- [functional] Capabilities: Protocol version not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP handshake this version of the package performs yet.
- [functional] Tool coverage: Tool coverage not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the tool definitions this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional] Schema quality: Schema quality not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional] Package version: 0.19.4 → 0.19.6

### 2026-10-28 (score 40, 0)

- [functional] Package version: 0.19.3 → 0.19.4

### 2026-10-26 (score 40, 0)

- [security] Tool safety: Tool safety not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the tool definitions this version of the package serves yet.
- [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] Capabilities: Protocol version not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP handshake this version of the package performs yet.
- [functional] Tool coverage: Tool coverage not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the tool definitions this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional] Schema quality: Schema quality not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional] Package version: 0.18.1 → 0.19.3
- [functional] Package version: 0.18.1 → 0.19.2
- [functional] Package version: 0.18.1 → 0.19.1
- [functional] Package version: 0.18.1 → 0.19.0

## MCP tools (3)

### `orchestrate` (~305 tokens)

Run a request through chargehand: intake turns it into a Task Spec, coding-agent workers (OpenCode or Claude Code) answer it, and the result comes back as result/v1 with evidence for every claim. The arguments are the request/v1 fields themselves: contract_version, text and context at the top level, not wrapped in a "request" object. context.delivery "local" keeps a run on this machine: a writing run leaves a local branch in the repository and nothing is pushed, opened or sent to a forge; the server's profile can force it. context.enhance false keeps the run from the server's prompt enhancer (nothing sent before, nothing reported after); use it for replays of stored prompts.

Input parameters:

- `caller_blocks` (array): Caller-owned prompt blocks. Placed in the task block and recorded in prompt_chain.
- `context` (object, required)
- `contract_version` (required): Always the string "request/v1".
- `driven` (object): A batch of tasks run as driven sessions, one container each, ending in a draft pull request per task (ADR 0039). Needs context.repository and unique task ids; both are checked by the server, not by t…
- `inputs` (array): Caller-supplied facts. Claims cite them with evidence kind 'input' and locator = id.
- `text` (string, required): The request in natural language.

### `result` (~82 tokens)

Read the result of a chargehand run that an orchestrate call answered with a run id because it was still running. Returns result/v1 once the run finished; before that, waits a while and returns the run's run-status/v1, so call it again.

Input parameters:

- `run_id` (string, required): The run id an orchestrate call returned instead of result/v1.

### `repositories` (~65 tokens)

List the repositories this chargehand server can read: for each, the folder name and owner/name that orchestrate's context.repository.path accepts (a GitHub URL works too), the server's path, and the commit and branch it has checked out now, to use as context.repository.commit.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 72
- 2026-11-04: 72
- 2026-11-03: 57
- 2026-11-02: 71
- 2026-11-01: 71
- 2026-10-31: 70
- 2026-10-30: 55
- 2026-10-29: 69
- 2026-10-28: 40
- 2026-10-27: 40
- 2026-10-26: 40
- 2026-10-25: 40
- 2026-10-24: 40
- 2026-10-23: 40
- 2026-10-22: 40
- 2026-10-21: 40
- 2026-10-20: 25
- 2026-10-19: 40
- 2026-10-18: 40
- 2026-10-17: 40
- 2026-10-16: 40
- 2026-10-15: 40
- 2026-10-14: 40
- 2026-10-13: 40
- 2026-10-12: 40
- 2026-10-08: 25
- 2026-10-05: 40
- 2026-10-04: 40
- 2026-10-03: 40
- 2026-10-02: 40

## Common questions

### What is the chargehand MCP server?

chargehand is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Egoushka/chargehand. Runs coding-agent workers on a codebase question; every claim in the answer carries evidence. This page covers its NuGet package (Chargehand).

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

chargehand scores 72 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 chargehand MCP server expose?

chargehand exposes 3 tools: orchestrate, result, repositories. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 452 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the chargehand MCP server still maintained?

chargehand 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 chargehand MCP server under?

chargehand declares the Apache-2.0 licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Chargehand
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/nuget/package/Chargehand
- Repository: https://github.com/Egoushka/chargehand
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/egoushka-chargehand/chargehand.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/egoushka-chargehand/chargehand.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/egoushka-chargehand/chargehand