# Skimless (npm · skimless)

Reading order for big pull requests: what to read first, what can wait. Offline, no model.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-25

## Components

- npm · `skimless`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pedroofrancaa-skimless/skimless.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pedroofrancaa-skimless/skimless)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `skimless`
- 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 2026-09-25.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - 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 1 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 327 tokens (~163/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 97/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 90% 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 2 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.

**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.

## Install

### How do I install the Skimless MCP server?

Skimless runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y skimless. 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 pedroofrancaa-skimless -- npx -y skimless
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pedroofrancaa-skimless": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skimless"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pedroofrancaa-skimless": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skimless"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pedroofrancaa-skimless -- npx -y skimless
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pedroofrancaa-skimless --command npx --arg -y --arg skimless
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pedroofrancaa-skimless:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "skimless"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pedroofrancaa-skimless": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "skimless"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pedroofrancaa-skimless -t stdio -c npx -a -y skimless
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pedroofrancaa-skimless": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skimless"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 70, 0)

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

### 2026-09-23 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `review_diff` (~220 tokens)

Reading order for a diff

Build a Skimless review packet: which files to read first, which can wait, and the rule behind every flag. Pass a unified diff, or omit it to run git diff in the repository. Secret-shaped strings are always redacted. No network, no model.

Input parameters:

- `base` (string): Compare base...HEAD, the way a pull request does. Example: origin/main.
- `budgetMinutes` (number): Flag a packet that takes longer than this to read.
- `cwd` (string): Repository directory. Defaults to the directory the server started in.
- `diff` (string): A unified diff. If omitted, Skimless runs git diff in the repository.
- `format` (string): summary (Markdown, default) or json (full packet without diff lines).
- `ignore` (array): Glob patterns to skip.
- `lang` (string): Packet language. Default: en, or skimless.config.json.
- `order` (string): story (default) or risk.
- `staged` (boolean): Review only staged changes.

### `list_rules` (~29 tokens)

Skimless rules

List every Skimless rule with its severity and one-line meaning.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-25: 70
- 2026-09-24: 70
- 2026-09-23: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Skimless MCP server?

Skimless is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pedroofrancaa/skimless. Reading order for big pull requests: what to read first, what can wait. Offline, no model. This page covers its npm package (skimless).

### Is the Skimless MCP server safe to use?

Skimless scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 25 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 Skimless MCP server expose?

Skimless exposes 2 tools: review_diff, list_rules. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 249 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Skimless MCP server still maintained?

Skimless is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 25 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 Skimless MCP server under?

Skimless 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/skimless
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/skimless
- Repository: https://github.com/pedroofrancaa/skimless
- Website: https://pedroofrancaa.github.io/skimless/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pedroofrancaa-skimless/skimless.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pedroofrancaa-skimless/skimless.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pedroofrancaa-skimless/skimless