# Slingshot brand kit (npm · @slingshot-fyi/brand-kit)

Slingshot's brand guides, design tokens and an off-brand colour check, for any MCP client.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- npm · `@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/fyi-slingshot-brand-kit/slingshot-fyi-brand-kit.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/fyi-slingshot-brand-kit/slingshot-fyi-brand-kit)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit`
- Version: `0.1.0`
- 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 2026-10-23.

- **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 92 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 16 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 64/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 130 tokens (~43/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 78/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 33% 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 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 Slingshot brand kit MCP server?

Slingshot brand kit runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @slingshot-fyi/brand-kit. 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 fyi-slingshot-brand-kit -- npx -y @slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fyi-slingshot-brand-kit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "fyi-slingshot-brand-kit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add fyi-slingshot-brand-kit -- npx -y @slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "fyi-slingshot-brand-kit": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add fyi-slingshot-brand-kit --command npx --arg -y --arg @slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  fyi-slingshot-brand-kit:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "fyi-slingshot-brand-kit": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add fyi-slingshot-brand-kit -t stdio -c npx -a -y @slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fyi-slingshot-brand-kit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-23 (score 70, +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.

### 2026-10-22 (score 69, +3)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.23

### 2026-10-15 (score 66, +28)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 33
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: good

### 2026-10-11 (score 38)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `brand_guide` (~47 tokens)

Read the Slingshot brand guide

Without a topic, returns the router that says which guide to read for the task. With a topic, returns that guide: every rule with its reason.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string)

### `brand_tokens` (~35 tokens)

Get the Slingshot design tokens

The brand values: colours, fonts, sizes and spacing, as JSON or as CSS custom properties.

Input parameters:

- `format` (string)

### `check_colors` (~48 tokens)

Check colours against the brand

Finds every raw colour in a CSS, HTML or JSX snippet and says which are brand tokens written by hand and which are off-brand.

Input parameters:

- `text` (string, required): The code or markup to check.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fyi-slingshot-brand-kit/slingshot-fyi-brand-kit#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 70
- 2026-10-22: 69
- 2026-10-21: 66
- 2026-10-20: 66
- 2026-10-19: 66
- 2026-10-18: 66
- 2026-10-17: 66
- 2026-10-16: 66
- 2026-10-15: 66
- 2026-10-14: 38
- 2026-10-13: 38
- 2026-10-12: 38
- 2026-10-11: 38

## Common questions

### What is the Slingshot brand kit MCP server?

Slingshot brand kit is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as fyi.slingshot/brand-kit. Slingshot's brand guides, design tokens and an off-brand colour check, for any MCP client. This page covers its npm package (@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit).

### Is the Slingshot brand kit MCP server safe to use?

Slingshot brand kit scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 23 October 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 Slingshot brand kit MCP server expose?

Slingshot brand kit exposes 3 tools: brand_guide, brand_tokens, check_colors. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 130 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Slingshot brand kit MCP server still maintained?

Slingshot brand kit is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 October 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 Slingshot brand kit MCP server under?

Slingshot brand kit 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/@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
- Repository: https://github.com/slingshot-fyi/brand-kit
- Website: https://slingshot.fyi/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fyi-slingshot-brand-kit/slingshot-fyi-brand-kit.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fyi-slingshot-brand-kit/slingshot-fyi-brand-kit.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fyi-slingshot-brand-kit/slingshot-fyi-brand-kit