# ATR: Automation for Token Reduction (pypi · atr-mcp)

MCP proxy that hides tool lists and shrinks tool results so your AI uses fewer tokens.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- pypi · `atr-mcp`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jacobbhatt12-atr/atr-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jacobbhatt12-atr/atr-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `atr-mcp`
- Version: `1.0.0`
- 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 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **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 7 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1037 tokens (~103/item across 10 items; 10 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**: 85/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 54% 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 10 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 11 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 ATR: Automation for Token Reduction MCP server?

ATR: Automation for Token Reduction runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx atr-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 jacobbhatt12-atr -- uvx atr-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jacobbhatt12-atr": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "atr-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "jacobbhatt12-atr": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "atr-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add jacobbhatt12-atr -- uvx atr-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "jacobbhatt12-atr": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "atr-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add jacobbhatt12-atr --command uvx --arg atr-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  jacobbhatt12-atr:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["atr-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "jacobbhatt12-atr": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "atr-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add jacobbhatt12-atr -t stdio -c uvx -a atr-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jacobbhatt12-atr": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "atr-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, +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.

### 2026-11-02 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 69, +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.

### 2026-10-29 (score 68, +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.

### 2026-10-28 (score 67)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (10)

### `atr_find_tools` (~69 tokens)

Find tools on the connected servers for a task. Returns compact signatures (* = required).

Input parameters:

- `detail` (boolean): Also return the parameter schemas.
- `k` (integer): How many tools (default 5).
- `query` (string, required): What you want to do, in a few words.

### `atr_read` (~61 tokens)

Run a read-only tool ([r] in atr_find_tools). Result is compressed; big ones are stashed.

Input parameters:

- `arguments` (object)
- `budget` (integer): Max tokens for the result (default from config).
- `tool` (string, required)

### `atr_call` (~56 tokens)

Run a tool that changes something ([w] in atr_find_tools). Result is compressed.

Input parameters:

- `arguments` (object)
- `budget` (integer): Max tokens for the result (default from config).
- `tool` (string, required)

### `atr_query` (~124 tokens)

Read part of a stashed result by ref. Data: path/where/fields/group_by. Text: search (regex).

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `group_by` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)
- `path` (string): Dotted path, e.g. data.items or items.*.user
- `ref` (string, required)
- `search` (string)
- `where` (array): Filters: key=v, key!=v, key>n, key<n, key~regex

### `atr_read_file` (~135 tokens)

Read part of a local file. Pass lines= (e.g. from a search hit) or search= to get only what you need; with just a path, big code files return an outline instead of the whole file.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (integer)
- `context` (integer): Lines around each search match (default 0).
- `fresh` (boolean): Send the full text even if you read it before.
- `lines` (string): Line range, e.g. 120-180.
- `path` (string, required)
- `search` (string): Regex: only matching lines, with line numbers.

### `atr_repo_map` (~48 tokens)

Project layout with each code file's top-level functions/classes. Start here in a codebase.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (integer)
- `path` (string): Folder (default: the project).

### `atr_search_code` (~117 tokens)

Find where something is defined or used, before reading any file. Regex, grouped by file (path:line: text); context=3 shows the lines around each hit, often enough to answer.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (integer)
- `context` (integer): Lines to show around each match (default 0, try 3).
- `glob` (string): Only these files, e.g. *.py or src/**/*.ts
- `path` (string): Folder (default: the project).
- `pattern` (string, required)

### `atr_diff` (~119 tokens)

What changed, compactly: git diff with 1 line of context, lockfiles/generated/binary files listed but not shown. Default: uncommitted changes. Use instead of `git diff`.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (integer)
- `file` (string): Only this file (path from the repo root).
- `path` (string): Folder inside the repo (default: the project).
- `ref` (string): Compare with this commit/branch, e.g. main or HEAD~1.
- `staged` (boolean): Only staged changes.

### `atr_run` (~69 tokens)

Run a shell command (tests, build, lint) and get compressed output: failures kept, noise cut.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (integer)
- `command` (string, required)
- `cwd` (string): Folder (default: the project).
- `timeout` (integer): Seconds (default 300).

### `atr_stats` (~16 tokens)

Tokens ATR has saved in this session.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jacobbhatt12-atr/atr-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 70
- 2026-11-03: 70
- 2026-11-02: 70
- 2026-11-01: 69
- 2026-10-31: 69
- 2026-10-30: 68
- 2026-10-29: 68
- 2026-10-28: 67

## Common questions

### What is the ATR: Automation for Token Reduction MCP server?

ATR: Automation for Token Reduction is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.JacobBhatt12/atr. MCP proxy that hides tool lists and shrinks tool results so your AI uses fewer tokens. This page covers its PyPI package (atr-mcp).

### Is the ATR: Automation for Token Reduction MCP server safe to use?

ATR: Automation for Token Reduction 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 ATR: Automation for Token Reduction MCP server expose?

ATR: Automation for Token Reduction exposes 10 tools: atr_find_tools, atr_read, atr_call, atr_query, atr_read_file, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 814 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the ATR: Automation for Token Reduction MCP server still maintained?

ATR: Automation for Token Reduction 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 ATR: Automation for Token Reduction MCP server under?

ATR: Automation for Token Reduction 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/atr-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/atr-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/JacobBhatt12/atr
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jacobbhatt12-atr/atr-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jacobbhatt12-atr/atr-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jacobbhatt12-atr/atr-mcp
