# DesignAround (pypi · designaround)

Design-patent screening, design-around and drawings for US, CN and EU products.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- pypi · `designaround`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/elidot007-designaround/designaround.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/elidot007-designaround/designaround)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `designaround`
- Version: `0.1.4`
- 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**: 99/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 19 of 84 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **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 (Apache-2.0).
  - Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 62/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 671 tokens (~95/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 20/100
  - Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 76/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 28% 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.
  - We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 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 DesignAround MCP server?

DesignAround runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx designaround. 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 elidot007-designaround -- uvx designaround
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elidot007-designaround": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "designaround"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "elidot007-designaround": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "designaround"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add elidot007-designaround -- uvx designaround
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "elidot007-designaround": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "designaround"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add elidot007-designaround --command uvx --arg designaround
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  elidot007-designaround:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["designaround"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "elidot007-designaround": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "designaround"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add elidot007-designaround -t stdio -c uvx -a designaround
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elidot007-designaround": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "designaround"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 68, +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.

### 2026-11-01 (score 67, +16)

- [security regression] Provenance: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-31 (score 51, 0)

- [security regression] Provenance: fail → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.3.post1 → 0.1.4

### 2026-10-30 (score 51)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `case_list` (~24 tokens)

List cases

Free. The cases on this machine (one product each) with their status.

### `decision_card` (~58 tokens)

Decision card

Free. Where a case stands: verdict (proceed / redesign / abandon / pending), reasons from the evaluations, next steps with credits and time, and the nearest deadline.

Input parameters:

- `case_id` (string, required)
- `lang` (string)

### `screen` (~133 tokens)

Screen registered designs

Paid. Search registered designs (US, CN, EU) for the case's product on the DesignAround server, add the candidates as prior art and rank them by silhouette locally. Quick screen 50 credits (5 free a month), deep (image + text) 350. Takes 1-3 minutes.

Input parameters:

- `case_id` (string, required)
- `deep` (boolean)
- `jurisdictions` (array): Default: the case's offices.
- `max_credits` (integer, required): Budget the user agreed to; must cover the price.
- `query` (string): Text query (default: the case's article).

### `design_around` (~161 tokens)

Design-around run

Paid. Starts the agent team in the background: a designer proposes candidates, originality and manufacturability gates check them, an isolated observer scores them against the closest prior art, and it repeats. Returns a run_id at once; follow it with run_status (runs take 10-60 minutes). depth: quick (1 round) | standard (3 rounds, default) | deep (6 rounds); standard and deep refund 50% of the spend automatically when no candidate qualifies.

Input parameters:

- `case_id` (string, required)
- `depth` (string)
- `max_credits` (integer, required): Hard cap for the whole run (standard default 5900).
- `top` (integer): How many prior-art rights to design around (default 3).

### `run_status` (~54 tokens)

Run status

Free. State of a background run started by design_around: status, recent progress events and, when done, the outcome (qualified candidates, where it got stuck, result guarantee refund).

Input parameters:

- `run_id` (string, required)

### `viewpack` (~64 tokens)

Patent drawings

Free, local. Patent line drawings of a version for US (with surface shading), CN or EU, with the office's rule checks. Free plan: watermarked.

Input parameters:

- `case_id` (string, required)
- `office` (string, required)
- `version` (string, required)

### `compare` (~59 tokens)

Compare two versions

Free, local. Same-scale overlay of two versions in every view, with changed parameters, size and risk; returns the comparison sheet as an image.

Input parameters:

- `a` (string, required)
- `b` (string, required)
- `case_id` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/elidot007-designaround/designaround#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 69
- 2026-11-04: 68
- 2026-11-03: 68
- 2026-11-02: 67
- 2026-11-01: 67
- 2026-10-31: 51
- 2026-10-30: 51

## Common questions

### What is the DesignAround MCP server?

DesignAround is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.elidot007/designaround. Design-patent screening, design-around and drawings for US, CN and EU products. This page covers its PyPI package (designaround).

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

DesignAround scores 69 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 DesignAround MCP server expose?

DesignAround exposes 7 tools: case_list, decision_card, screen, design_around, run_status, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 553 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the DesignAround MCP server still maintained?

DesignAround 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 DesignAround MCP server under?

DesignAround 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

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/designaround/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/designaround
- Repository: https://github.com/elidot007/designaround-cli
- Website: https://designaround.elidot.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/elidot007-designaround/designaround.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/elidot007-designaround/designaround.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/elidot007-designaround/designaround