# NerdyChefs Prompts (npm · nerdychefs-mcp)

Search, browse and pick from the free NerdyChefs.ai prompt library from any MCP client.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-26

## Components

- npm · `nerdychefs-mcp`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp/nerdychefs-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp/nerdychefs-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `nerdychefs-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.2`
- 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 2026-09-26.

- **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 96 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 11 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 54/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 324 tokens (~40/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 57/100
  - Stability observed for 17 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 8 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 supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the NerdyChefs Prompts MCP server?

NerdyChefs Prompts runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y nerdychefs-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 mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp -- npx -y nerdychefs-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nerdychefs-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nerdychefs-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp -- npx -y nerdychefs-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "nerdychefs-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg nerdychefs-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "nerdychefs-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "nerdychefs-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y nerdychefs-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nerdychefs-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.

### 2026-09-25 (score 71, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-22 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-20 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-16 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-15 (score 66, +43)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.20
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass

### 2026-09-14 (score 23, −40)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.1 → 0.1.2

### 2026-09-09 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `search_prompts` (~69 tokens)

Find prompts for a task, with optional category, persona, and tag filters.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `include_prompt_text` (boolean)
- `limit` (integer)
- `persona` (string)
- `query` (string, required)
- `tag` (string)

### `get_prompt` (~29 tokens)

Get a prompt by its numeric ID, including the full prompt text.

Input parameters:

- `id` (integer, required)

### `random_prompt` (~46 tokens)

Pick a random prompt to try, optionally narrowed by category, persona, or tag.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `persona` (string)
- `tag` (string)

### `list_packs` (~42 tokens)

Browse prompt packs by category or search their titles and descriptions.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string)

### `get_pack` (~47 tokens)

Open a pack by slug or exact title and optionally include its prompts.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `include_prompt_text` (boolean)
- `include_prompts` (boolean)

### `list_categories` (~18 tokens)

List the available prompt categories and their subcategories.

### `list_personas` (~37 tokens)

Find personas to use when filtering prompts, starting with the most common.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string)
- `top` (integer)

### `list_tags` (~36 tokens)

Find tags to use when filtering prompts, starting with the most common.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string)
- `top` (integer)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp/nerdychefs-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-26: 71
- 2026-09-25: 71
- 2026-09-24: 70
- 2026-09-23: 70
- 2026-09-22: 70
- 2026-09-21: 69
- 2026-09-20: 69
- 2026-09-19: 68
- 2026-09-18: 68
- 2026-09-17: 67
- 2026-09-16: 67
- 2026-09-15: 66
- 2026-09-14: 23
- 2026-09-13: 63
- 2026-09-12: 63
- 2026-09-11: 63
- 2026-09-10: 63
- 2026-09-09: 63

## Common questions

### What is the NerdyChefs Prompts MCP server?

NerdyChefs Prompts is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.mayeu20/nerdychefs-mcp. Search, browse and pick from the free NerdyChefs.ai prompt library from any MCP client. This page covers its npm package (nerdychefs-mcp).

### Is the NerdyChefs Prompts MCP server safe to use?

NerdyChefs Prompts scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 26 September 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 NerdyChefs Prompts MCP server expose?

NerdyChefs Prompts exposes 8 tools: search_prompts, get_prompt, random_prompt, list_packs, get_pack, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 324 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the NerdyChefs Prompts MCP server still maintained?

NerdyChefs Prompts is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 26 September 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 NerdyChefs Prompts MCP server under?

NerdyChefs Prompts 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/nerdychefs-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/nerdychefs-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/mayeu20/nerdychefs-mcp
- Website: https://www.nerdychefs.ai/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp/nerdychefs-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp/nerdychefs-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mayeu20-nerdychefs-mcp/nerdychefs-mcp