MAL MCP Server
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MyAnimeList MCP server: Tenrai-powered reads plus official MAL personal-list management.
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Category Entertainment and Games
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 0 of 3 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to Grinv/mal-mcp). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 13 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability78
- 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 13285 tokens (~246/item across 54 items; 54 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management89
- Stability check failed: the tool surface changed between 0.10.0 and 0.11.0: 0 tool removals, 5 breaking changes, 0 additions. See how to fix → Fail
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- All 2 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 55 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 85 to 89.
- 4 Nov 26 −1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 95 to 85.
- 22 Oct 26 +4
- Stability: 0.97 → fail ▼ security
- CVE-2026-111770 no longer affects this package ▲ security
- CVE-2026-111771 no longer affects this package ▲ security
- CVE-2026-111768 no longer affects this package ▲ security
- Known CVEs: fail → pass ▲ security
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- Package version: 0.10.0 → 0.11.0 functional
- 21 Oct 26 −5
- CVE-2026-111771 affects this package: high ▼ security
- CVE-2026-111770 affects this package: high ▼ security
- CVE-2026-111768 affects this package: high ▼ security
- Known CVEs: pass → fail ▼ security
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 17 Oct 26 +3
- Stability: 0.80 → pass security
- 16 Oct 26 −3
- Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
- 15 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 14 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
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Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/mal-mcp@0.11.0
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | Grinv/mal-mcp |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/Grinv/mal-mcp/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v0.11.0 |
| Rekor log index | 3382146583 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:ad95e11d525ed36def309ac90453485c41310772b3613f688a67459bf2177de59170614e8d768c85d3e346499263a4fed4d96633257a2e9439413cdf9 |
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Dependencies 3 packages
| Packages resolved | 3 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_seasonal_anime Get seasonal anime ~543
List anime from a given season — supply both `year` and `season` together, or omit both for the current season; supplying only one is treated as omitting both. For next season's lineup use get_upcoming_season instead. If Tenrai is unavailable and MAL_CLIENT_ID is set, transparently retries via the official API — `filter`/`rating`/`unapproved`/`continuing`/`kids` are silently dropped (no equivalent there), `order_by`/`sort` keep only the default members-descending order (anything else comes back unsorted), `themes`/`demographics`/`broadcast` come back empty, and `sfw_strict` degrades to the same filtering as `sfw` there (no Ecchi-genre distinction available).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| continuing | boolean | – | If true, also include TV series continuing from a previous season. Defaults to false. |
| filter | array | – | Restrict to one or more media types. |
| kids | boolean | – | If true, exclude entries tagged as children's/kids content. Defaults to false. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| order_by | string | – | Field to order by. Defaults to members. |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| rating | array | – | Restrict to one or more specific content ratings. More granular than `sfw`/`sfw_strict` — use this to target a precise rating band instead of a blanket adult-content cutoff. |
| season | string | – | Season name. |
| sfw | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries (R+ Mild Nudity and up). Defaults to false (no filtering). Note: this alone still allows mainstream, safely-rated shows tagged with the Ecchi genre (fans… |
| sfw_strict | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries AND anything tagged with the Ecchi genre, even otherwise-mainstream/safely-rated shows. Stricter than `sfw` alone. Defaults to false. |
| sort | string | – | Sort direction. Only takes effect together with `order_by`; ignored on its own. |
| unapproved | string | – | Entries not yet approved by MAL's moderators: 'true' also includes them, 'false' (default) excludes them, 'only' returns exclusively unapproved entries. |
| year | integer | – | Four-digit year, e.g. 2024. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_seasons_list List available seasons ~34
List the years and seasons that have anime data, so you can pick valid arguments for get_seasonal_anime.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| seasons | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_top_anime Get top anime ~433
Get anime ranked by all-time score/popularity, not tied to any season. Use `filter` for special rankings (airing, upcoming, bypopularity, favorite); for a specific season's lineup use get_seasonal_anime or get_upcoming_season instead. If Tenrai is unavailable and MAL_CLIENT_ID is set, transparently retries via the official API, which takes one ranking instead of `type` + `filter`: `filter` wins over `type`; a `type` with no official ranking (ona, music, cm, pv, tv_special) or more than one `type` is dropped, and with nothing usable left the all-time ranking is returned; `rating` is ignored entirely, `themes`/`demographics`/`broadcast` come back empty, and `sfw_strict` degrades to the same filtering as `sfw` (the official API can't separate adult-rated from Ecchi-tagged-but-safely-rated).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| filter | string | – | Special ranking filter. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| rating | array | – | Restrict to one or more specific content ratings. More granular than `sfw`/`sfw_strict` — use this to target a precise rating band instead of a blanket adult-content cutoff. |
| sfw | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries (R+ Mild Nudity and up). Defaults to false (no filtering). Note: this alone still allows mainstream, safely-rated shows tagged with the Ecchi genre (fans… |
| sfw_strict | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries AND anything tagged with the Ecchi genre, even otherwise-mainstream/safely-rated shows. Stricter than `sfw` alone. Defaults to false. |
| type | array | – | Restrict to one or more media types. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_top_characters Get top characters ~70
Get the most popular/favorited characters, ranked overall. Use search_characters instead to look up a specific character by name.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_top_manga Get top manga ~371
Get manga ranked by all-time score/popularity, not tied to any release window. Use `filter` for special rankings (publishing, upcoming, bypopularity, favorite). If Tenrai is unavailable and MAL_CLIENT_ID is set, transparently retries via the official API, which takes one ranking instead of `type` + `filter`: `filter` publishing/upcoming has no official ranking and is dropped, bypopularity/favorite win over `type`, a single `type` maps to its closest official ranking (novel and lightnovel share one), more than one `type` is dropped, and with nothing usable left the all-time ranking is returned; `themes`/`demographics` come back empty, and `sfw_strict` degrades to the same filtering as `sfw` (the official API can't separate adult-rated from Ecchi-tagged-but-safely-rated).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| filter | string | – | Special ranking filter. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| sfw | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries (R+ Mild Nudity and up). Defaults to false (no filtering). Note: this alone still allows mainstream, safely-rated shows tagged with the Ecchi genre (fans… |
| sfw_strict | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries AND anything tagged with the Ecchi genre, even otherwise-mainstream/safely-rated shows. Stricter than `sfw` alone. Defaults to false. |
| type | array | – | Restrict to one or more publication types. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_top_people Get top people ~75
Get the most popular/favorited people (voice actors, staff, authors), ranked overall. Use search_people instead to look up a specific person by name.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_upcoming_season Get upcoming season anime ~491
List anime scheduled for the upcoming season. Use get_seasonal_anime for the current or a specific past season. If Tenrai is unavailable and MAL_CLIENT_ID is set, transparently retries via the official API — `filter`/`rating`/`unapproved`/`continuing`/`kids` are silently dropped (no equivalent there), `order_by`/`sort` keep only the default members-descending order (anything else comes back unsorted), `themes`/`demographics`/`broadcast` come back empty, and `sfw_strict` degrades to the same filtering as `sfw` there (no Ecchi-genre distinction available).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| continuing | boolean | – | If true, also include TV series continuing from a previous season. Defaults to false. |
| filter | array | – | Restrict to one or more media types. |
| kids | boolean | – | If true, exclude entries tagged as children's/kids content. Defaults to false. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| order_by | string | – | Field to order by. Defaults to members. |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| rating | array | – | Restrict to one or more specific content ratings. More granular than `sfw`/`sfw_strict` — use this to target a precise rating band instead of a blanket adult-content cutoff. |
| sfw | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries (R+ Mild Nudity and up). Defaults to false (no filtering). Note: this alone still allows mainstream, safely-rated shows tagged with the Ecchi genre (fans… |
| sfw_strict | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries AND anything tagged with the Ecchi genre, even otherwise-mainstream/safely-rated shows. Stricter than `sfw` alone. Defaults to false. |
| sort | string | – | Sort direction. Only takes effect together with `order_by`; ignored on its own. |
| unapproved | string | – | Entries not yet approved by MAL's moderators: 'true' also includes them, 'false' (default) excludes them, 'only' returns exclusively unapproved entries. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
login_mal Log in to MyAnimeList ~138
Authorize the personal-list tools with your MyAnimeList account (one-time). Prerequisite: register a MAL API app of type 'other' at https://myanimelist.net/apiconfig with Redirect URI set to this server's localhost callback, and set MAL_CLIENT_ID in the server env. Calling this returns an authorization URL: open it, log in, and click Allow. If your browser is on the same machine as the server and the callback port is free, login completes automatically; otherwise (a remote/headless host, or the port is busy) copy the URL you land on and pass it to submit_mal_redirect.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| authorize_url | string | yes | – |
| auto_capture | boolean | yes | – |
| instructions | string | yes | – |
| redirect_uri | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_anime Search anime ~878
Search MyAnimeList anime by keyword; returns compact summaries (with the mal_id that other anime tools require) plus pagination info. If Tenrai is unavailable and MAL_CLIENT_ID is set and `q` has at least 3 characters (the official search rejects anything shorter, so a filter-only or 1-2 character search has no fallback), transparently retries via the official API, which ignores every filter except `q`/`sfw`/`limit`/`page` (`type`/`status`/`genres`/`genres_exclude`/`rating`/`score`/`min_score`/`max_score`/`letter`/`producers`/`start_date`/`end_date`/`unapproved`/`order_by`/`sort` are silently dropped), always returns empty `themes`/`demographics`/`broadcast` (no official-API equivalent for any of these), and — for a query with no real title match — comes back with a page of unrelated anime instead of an empty result (a quirk of the official search endpoint itself, not a mal-mcp bug; don't treat a nonsense-query result as a real match during a fallback).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| end_date | string | – | Only include entries whose end date is on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM / YYYY for the end of that month/year. Entries with no end date are excluded. |
| genres | string | – | Comma-separated MAL genre IDs to include (max 25), e.g. '1,4'. Look up IDs with get_anime_genres. |
| genres_exclude | string | – | Comma-separated MAL genre IDs to exclude (max 25), e.g. '1,4'. Look up IDs with get_anime_genres. |
| letter | string | – | Restrict results to entries whose title starts with this single letter. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| max_score | number | – | Maximum average MAL score (inclusive), 1-10. |
| min_score | number | – | Minimum average MAL score (inclusive), 0-10. |
| order_by | string | – | Field to order by. |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| producers | string | – | Comma-separated MAL producer/studio IDs to restrict to (max 25). Look up IDs with get_producers. |
| q | string | – | Search query, e.g. an anime title. Omit to browse by the other filters alone (e.g. genres + order_by). Cannot be combined with `letter`. |
| rating | array | – | Restrict to one or more specific content ratings. More granular than `sfw`/`sfw_strict` — use this to target a precise rating band instead of a blanket adult-content cutoff. |
| score | number | – | Restrict to entries with exactly this average score (rarely useful — prefer min_score/max_score for a range). |
| sfw | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries (R+ Mild Nudity and up). Defaults to false (no filtering). Note: this alone still allows mainstream, safely-rated shows tagged with the Ecchi genre (fans… |
| sfw_strict | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries AND anything tagged with the Ecchi genre, even otherwise-mainstream/safely-rated shows. Stricter than `sfw` alone. Defaults to false. |
| sort | string | – | Sort direction. Only takes effect together with `order_by`; ignored on its own. |
| start_date | string | – | Only include entries whose start date is on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM / YYYY for the start of that month/year. |
| status | string | – | Filter by airing status. |
| type | array | – | Restrict to one or more media types. |
| unapproved | string | – | Entries not yet approved by MAL's moderators: 'true' also includes them, 'false' (default) excludes them, 'only' returns exclusively unapproved entries. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_characters Search characters ~148
Search MyAnimeList characters by name. Returns compact summaries and the mal_id needed by get_character. Use get_anime_characters instead if you already have an anime's mal_id and want its full cast.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| letter | string | – | Restrict results to entries whose title starts with this single letter. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| order_by | string | – | Field to order by. |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| q | string | yes | Character name. |
| sort | string | – | Sort direction. Only takes effect together with `order_by`; ignored on its own. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_manga Search manga ~821
Search MyAnimeList manga by keyword (also light novels, manhwa/manhua); returns compact summaries with the mal_id that other manga tools require. If Tenrai is unavailable and MAL_CLIENT_ID is set and `q` has at least 3 characters (the official search rejects anything shorter, so a filter-only or 1-2 character search has no fallback), transparently retries via the official API, which ignores every filter except `q`/`sfw`/`limit`/`page` (`type`/`status`/`genres`/`genres_exclude`/`score`/`min_score`/`max_score`/`letter`/`magazines`/`start_date`/`end_date`/`unapproved`/`order_by`/`sort` are silently dropped), always returns empty `themes`/`demographics` (no official-API equivalent), and — for a query with no real title match — comes back with a page of unrelated manga instead of an empty result (a quirk of the official search endpoint itself, not a mal-mcp bug; don't treat a nonsense-query result as a real match during a fallback).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| end_date | string | – | Only include entries whose end date is on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM / YYYY for the end of that month/year. Entries with no end date are excluded. |
| genres | string | – | Comma-separated MAL genre IDs to include (max 25), e.g. '1,4'. Look up IDs with get_manga_genres. |
| genres_exclude | string | – | Comma-separated MAL genre IDs to exclude (max 25), e.g. '1,4'. Look up IDs with get_manga_genres. |
| letter | string | – | Restrict results to entries whose title starts with this single letter. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| magazines | string | – | Comma-separated MAL magazine IDs to restrict to (max 25). Look up IDs with get_magazines. |
| max_score | number | – | Maximum average MAL score (inclusive), 1-10. |
| min_score | number | – | Minimum average MAL score (inclusive), 0-10. |
| order_by | string | – | Field to order by. |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| q | string | – | Search query, e.g. a manga title. Omit to browse by the other filters alone (e.g. genres + order_by). Cannot be combined with `letter`. |
| score | number | – | Restrict to entries with exactly this average score (rarely useful — prefer min_score/max_score for a range). |
| sfw | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries (R+ Mild Nudity and up). Defaults to false (no filtering). Note: this alone still allows mainstream, safely-rated shows tagged with the Ecchi genre (fans… |
| sfw_strict | boolean | – | If true, exclude adult/explicit-rated entries AND anything tagged with the Ecchi genre, even otherwise-mainstream/safely-rated shows. Stricter than `sfw` alone. Defaults to false. |
| sort | string | – | Sort direction. Only takes effect together with `order_by`; ignored on its own. |
| start_date | string | – | Only include entries whose start date is on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM / YYYY for the start of that month/year. |
| status | string | – | Filter by publication status. |
| type | array | – | Restrict to one or more publication types. |
| unapproved | string | – | Entries not yet approved by MAL's moderators: 'true' also includes them, 'false' (default) excludes them, 'only' returns exclusively unapproved entries. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_people Search people ~130
Search MyAnimeList people (voice actors, directors, authors) by name. Returns the mal_id needed by get_person.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| letter | string | – | Restrict results to entries whose title starts with this single letter. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results per page (1-100). |
| order_by | string | – | Field to order by. |
| page | integer | – | 1-based page number for pagination (1-20000). |
| q | string | yes | Person name. |
| sort | string | – | Sort direction. Only takes effect together with `order_by`; ignored on its own. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | object | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
submit_mal_redirect Finish MyAnimeList login ~90
Complete a login started with login_mal by submitting the URL your browser was redirected to after clicking Allow (the one containing ?code=...). Use this when login didn't complete automatically — e.g. the server runs on a remote/headless host. A bare code string is also accepted.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| redirect_url | string | yes | The full redirected URL (contains ?code=...), or just the code value. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| logged_in | boolean | yes | – |
| message | string | yes | – |
| user | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
update_my_anime_status Update my anime status ~335
Add or update an anime on the authenticated user's list (status, score, watched episodes, dates). Creates the entry if absent; fields you omit are left unchanged on an existing entry. Provide at least one field besides anime_id. Requires a MyAnimeList login.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| anime_id | integer | yes | MyAnimeList numeric ID of the target entry. (The read tools call this same id `id`; it's named anime_id/manga_id here to match MAL's own write endpoints.) Obtain it from search_anime/search_manga, or… |
| comments | string | – | Free-text comments. |
| finish_date | string | – | Date as YYYY-MM-DD. |
| is_rewatching | boolean | – | Whether currently rewatching. |
| num_times_rewatched | integer | – | Times rewatched. |
| num_watched_episodes | integer | – | Episodes watched. Note: get_my_anime_list returns this same value as `num_episodes_watched` — the field name is intentionally different here. |
| priority | integer | – | List priority: 0 = low, 1 = medium, 2 = high. |
| rewatch_value | integer | – | Rewatch/reread value: 0 = none … 5 = very high. |
| score | integer | – | Score 0-10 (0 clears the score). |
| start_date | string | – | Date as YYYY-MM-DD. |
| status | string | – | List status bucket. |
| tags | string | – | Comma-separated free-text tags. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| score | integer | – | – |
| status | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
update_my_manga_status Update my manga status ~320
Add or update a manga on the authenticated user's list (status, score, chapters/volumes read, dates). Creates the entry if absent; fields you omit are left unchanged on an existing entry. Provide at least one field besides manga_id. Requires a MyAnimeList login.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| comments | string | – | Free-text comments. |
| finish_date | string | – | Date as YYYY-MM-DD. |
| is_rereading | boolean | – | Whether currently rereading. |
| manga_id | integer | yes | MyAnimeList numeric ID of the target entry. (The read tools call this same id `id`; it's named anime_id/manga_id here to match MAL's own write endpoints.) Obtain it from search_anime/search_manga, or… |
| num_chapters_read | integer | – | Chapters read. |
| num_times_reread | integer | – | Times reread. |
| num_volumes_read | integer | – | Volumes read. |
| priority | integer | – | List priority: 0 = low, 1 = medium, 2 = high. |
| reread_value | integer | – | Rewatch/reread value: 0 = none … 5 = very high. |
| score | integer | – | Score 0-10 (0 clears the score). |
| start_date | string | – | Date as YYYY-MM-DD. |
| status | string | – | List status bucket. |
| tags | string | – | Comma-separated free-text tags. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| score | integer | – | – |
| status | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the MAL MCP Server server?
MAL MCP Server runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y mal-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · mal-mcp
claude mcp add grinv-mal-mcp -- npx -y mal-mcp
What is the MAL MCP Server server?
MAL MCP Server is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Grinv/mal-mcp. MyAnimeList MCP server: Tenrai-powered reads plus official MAL personal-list management. This page covers its npm package (mal-mcp).
Is the MAL MCP Server server safe to use?
MAL MCP Server scores 95 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. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 MAL MCP Server server expose?
MAL MCP Server exposes 54 tools: search_anime, search_manga, get_anime, get_manga, get_anime_characters, and 49 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 13,134 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the MAL MCP Server server still maintained?
MAL MCP Server 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 MAL MCP Server server under?
MAL MCP Server declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.