# Printables (pypi · printables-mcp)

Search Printables.com 3D models, read model cards, list files and get download links.

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

## Components

- pypi · `printables-mcp`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/feodor-ra-printables-mcp/printables-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/feodor-ra-printables-mcp/printables-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `printables-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.1`
- 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.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 1 of 32 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 (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**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 675 tokens (~84/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 92/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 72% 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 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 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 Printables MCP server?

Printables runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx printables-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 feodor-ra-printables-mcp -- uvx printables-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "feodor-ra-printables-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "printables-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "feodor-ra-printables-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "printables-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add feodor-ra-printables-mcp -- uvx printables-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add feodor-ra-printables-mcp --command uvx --arg printables-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  feodor-ra-printables-mcp:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["printables-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "feodor-ra-printables-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "printables-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add feodor-ra-printables-mcp -t stdio -c uvx -a printables-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "feodor-ra-printables-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "printables-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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 71, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-04 (score 56, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 55, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 54)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `search_models` (~134 tokens)

Search Printables models by text with optional filters and pagination.

Returns:
    The total match count and one page of model summaries.

Input parameters:

- `category_id`: Category ID from `list_categories`
- `has_makes`: Only models with user-posted prints
- `license_ids`: License IDs from `list_licenses`
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer): Skip this many results (pagination)
- `ordering` (string)
- `price` (string): paid includes club-only models
- `published_within_days`
- `query` (string, required): Search text; empty string lists everything

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)
- `offset` (integer)
- `total` (integer): Total number of matches (the API caps it at 10000)

### `get_model` (~56 tokens)

Get a model's full card: Markdown description, tags, category, license, print parameters, images, remixes.

Returns:
    The model details.

Input parameters:

- `model` (string, required): Model ID ("3161") or model page URL

Output parameters:

- `author`
- `authorship`: "original", "remix" or "reupload"
- `category`
- `club_only` (boolean): Available to Printables Club members only
- `comments`
- `description` (string): Full description as Markdown
- `downloads`
- `first_published`
- `id` (string)
- `images` (array)
- `is_free` (boolean): Free to download without purchase or a club membership
- `license`
- `likes`
- `makes`: Number of user-posted prints of the model
- `materials` (array)
- `multi_material` (boolean)
- `name` (string)
- `nsfw` (boolean)
- `pdf_url`
- `price`: Purchase price in USD for paid models
- `print_time_minutes`
- `printer`: Printer the author used
- `published`: Publication timestamp, ISO 8601
- `rating`: Average rating, 0-5
- `ratings`: Number of ratings
- `remix_of` (array)
- `summary`
- `tags` (array)
- `url` (string)
- `views`
- `weight_grams`: Filament weight

### `list_model_files` (~68 tokens)

List every downloadable file of a model with sizes and, for G-code, printer/material/slicing parameters.

Use `get_download_links` to obtain the actual URLs.

Returns:
    All files of the model.

Input parameters:

- `model` (string, required): Model ID ("3161") or model page URL

Output parameters:

- `files` (array)
- `model_id` (string)
- `model_url` (string)

### `get_download_links` (~103 tokens)

Get direct download URLs (valid for 24 hours) for a model's files.

Files that cannot be downloaded anonymously (paid or club-only models) come back with an `error` instead of a
URL; the other files are unaffected.

Returns:
    One link or error per requested file.

Input parameters:

- `file_ids`: File IDs from `list_model_files`; omit for all
- `model` (string, required): Model ID ("3161") or model page URL

Output parameters:

- `links` (array)
- `model_id` (string)

### `list_categories` (~34 tokens)

List all model categories with their full paths; the IDs feed `search_models(category_id=...)`.

Returns:
    All categories.

Output parameters:

- `categories` (array)

### `list_licenses` (~35 tokens)

List the licenses models are published under; the IDs feed `search_models(license_ids=...)`.

Returns:
    All licenses.

Output parameters:

- `licenses` (array)

### `get_author` (~49 tokens)

Get an author's public profile.

Returns:
    The profile.

Input parameters:

- `author` (string, required): User ID ("16"), handle ("Prusa3D" or "@Prusa3D") or profile URL

Output parameters:

- `bio`
- `followers`
- `handle` (string)
- `id` (string)
- `name`: Public display name
- `url` (string)

### `list_author_models` (~93 tokens)

List models published by an author, page by page.

Returns:
    One page of the author's models and the cursor for the next one.

Input parameters:

- `author` (string, required): User ID ("16"), handle ("Prusa3D" or "@Prusa3D") or profile URL
- `cursor`: `next_cursor` from the previous page
- `limit` (integer)
- `ordering` (string)

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)
- `next_cursor`: Pass as `cursor` to fetch the next page; null on the last page

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/feodor-ra-printables-mcp/printables-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 56
- 2026-11-03: 55
- 2026-11-02: 55
- 2026-11-01: 54

## Common questions

### What is the Printables MCP server?

Printables is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.feodor-ra/printables-mcp. Search Printables.com 3D models, read model cards, list files and get download links. This page covers its PyPI package (printables-mcp).

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

Printables scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. 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 Printables MCP server expose?

Printables exposes 8 tools: search_models, get_model, list_model_files, get_download_links, list_categories, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 572 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Printables MCP server still maintained?

Printables 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 Printables MCP server under?

Printables 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

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/printables-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/printables-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/feodor-ra/printables-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/feodor-ra-printables-mcp/printables-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/feodor-ra-printables-mcp/printables-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/feodor-ra-printables-mcp/printables-mcp