io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb
NPM · IFDB-MCP-SERVER
Interactive Fiction Database: search text adventures and read one game's details.
Available components
Last scanned (23 hours ago)
Scores higher than 34% of npm servers
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 Security81
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- CVE check failed: a known high-severity CVE affects zod 3.25.76, a direct dependency. A fixed version is available. View diagnostics → Fail
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 32 of 115 dependencies flagged as unhealthy (1 deprecated). View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 8 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability79
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 448 tokens (~89/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
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
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Unverified: 1 category
A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.
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.
- 28 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 27 Oct 26 51
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 4 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/ifdb-mcp-server@1.0.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Vulnerabilities 1 finding
| ID | CVE | Severity | Vector | Fix available |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-mrhx-c7xc-m3w5 | CVE-2023-54404 | high | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | yes |
Background: What a vulnerability scan can and cannot prove →
Dependencies 115 packages
| Packages resolved | 115 |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | 1 |
| Stale | 32 |
| 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 →
browse_by_author Browse IFDB by author ~60
List the IFDB games credited to one author, using IFDB's author: search filter. No API key needed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| author | string | yes | Author name, e.g. Andrew Plotkin |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
browse_by_genre Browse IFDB by genre ~61
List IFDB games tagged with a genre, using IFDB's genre: search filter. No API key needed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| genre | string | yes | Genre tag, e.g. Horror or Science Fiction |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
browse_by_year Browse IFDB by release year ~60
List IFDB games released in a given year, using IFDB's year: search filter. No API key needed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results. |
| year | integer | yes | Release year, e.g. 1990 |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_game_details Get IFDB game details ~135
Fetch full details for one IFDB game: description, authors, year, genres, development system, average star rating, rating histogram, review/play/wishlist counts, download links, and a play-in-browser link. Accepts an IFDB game URL, a relative 'viewgame?id=...' path, or a bare game TUID. No API key needed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| game | string | yes | Game identifier: full IFDB URL (https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...), relative path (viewgame?id=...), or bare TUID (e.g. 4gxk83ja4twckm6j). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_games Search IFDB games ~132
Search the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) for text adventure games by title, author, or keyword. Returns matching games with title, authors, year, average star rating, rating count, and IFDB URL. No API key needed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results to return (1-50). |
| query | string | yes | Search query: game title, author, or keyword. |
| sort | string | – | Result order: relevance, title, author, newest, oldest, highest_rated, lowest_rated, most_ratings, fewest_ratings, longest, shortest, random. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb MCP server?
io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y ifdb-mcp-server. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · ifdb-mcp-server
claude mcp add mrfentmen-ifdb -- npx -y ifdb-mcp-server
What is the io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb MCP server?
io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb. Interactive Fiction Database: search text adventures and read one game's details. This page covers its npm package (ifdb-mcp-server).
Is the io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb MCP server safe to use?
io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb scores 66 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We recorded 1 known advisory against it as of 4 November 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 io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb MCP server expose?
io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb exposes 5 tools: search_games, get_game_details, browse_by_author, browse_by_year, browse_by_genre. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 448 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb MCP server still maintained?
io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 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 io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb MCP server under?
io.github.mrfentmen/ifdb declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.