Nice Guidance
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-NICE-GUIDANCE · 2 COMPONENTS
NICE guidance MCP — the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's published guidance for…
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Last scanned (7 hours ago)
Scores higher than 81% of npm servers
Category Health and Science
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
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-nice-guidance). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability72
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 772 tokens (~154/item across 5 items; 5 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 Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
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 6 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
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 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.
- 4 Nov 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 3 Nov 26 −14
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 1 Nov 26 +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.
- 30 Oct 26 +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.
- 29 Oct 26 80
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Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-nice-guidance@0.2.1
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 | pipeworx-io/mcp-nice-guidance |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-nice-guidance/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3679260161 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:ca26f792856c4dfc39440479404cd8652daced9c89a2c902289eeae66f531a007b14ed9800266de5d37243b0f878bbaebe1da81e9fd3e9bc8c8284a56 |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
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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 →
nice_guidance ~117
The published record for one piece of NICE guidance by reference number (TA1040, NG101, CG81, QS12, IPG123, DG55, HST20): title, programme, publication and last-review dates, overview, the chapters it contains, the condition area it sits under, and — the part that matters clinically — whether it is still current or has been withdrawn, terminated or replaced, naming the guidance that replaced it.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | NICE reference number, e.g. "TA1040" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nice_guidance_by_topic ~135
Every piece of NICE guidance filed under a condition area — e.g. all breast cancer guidance, or all guidance on type 2 diabetes — with reference numbers, titles, programme and dates. This is the complete curated list for the topic rather than a relevance-ranked search, so it is the right tool for "what has NICE published on X". Call with no topic to list the condition areas that can be asked for.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number | – | Items to return, 1-200 (default 60) |
| topic | string | – | Condition area, e.g. "breast cancer", "diabetes" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nice_recent_guidance ~98
NICE guidance published or updated most recently, newest first, optionally restricted to one programme such as technology appraisals. Answers "what has NICE published this month" and shows which treatments have just been appraised for NHS use in England.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| guidance_type | string | – | Restrict to one NICE programme, e.g. "Technology appraisal guidance" |
| limit | number | – | Items to return, 1-50 (default 20) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nice_recommendations ~95
The recommendations chapter of a piece of NICE guidance, in full text — the numbered paragraphs stating what NICE recommends and under what conditions, including whether a medicine is recommended only within its marketing authorisation or only under a commercial arrangement. Answers "did NICE recommend this treatment, and for whom", with the wording that decides NHS funding in England.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | NICE reference number, e.g. "TA1040" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nice_search_guidance ~272
Search NICE guidance for England by drug, device, procedure or condition — technology appraisals, NICE and clinical guidelines, diagnostics guidance, interventional procedures and quality standards. Returns the reference number (TA1040, NG101), title, guidance type, publication date and summary. Answers whether NICE has assessed a treatment and which document says so, which is the first step to whether the NHS in England funds it.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| guidance_type | string | – | Restrict to one NICE programme, spelled as NICE spells it: Antimicrobial prescribing guidelines, Antimicrobial resistance guidance, Cancer service guidelines, Clinical guidelines, COVID-19 rapid guid… |
| limit | number | – | Results to return, 1-50 (default 15) |
| page | number | – | Result page, 1-based |
| query | string | yes | Drug, device, procedure or condition, e.g. "olaparib" or "atrial fibrillation" |
| sort | string | – | "date" for newest first, or "relevance" (default) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Nice Guidance MCP server?
Nice Guidance runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-nice-guidance. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-nice-guidance
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-nice-guidance -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-nice-guidance
What is the Nice Guidance MCP server?
Nice Guidance is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/nice-guidance. NICE guidance MCP, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's published guidance for… This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-nice-guidance).
Is the Nice Guidance MCP server safe to use?
Nice Guidance scores 84 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 Nice Guidance MCP server expose?
Nice Guidance exposes 5 tools: nice_search_guidance, nice_guidance, nice_recommendations, nice_guidance_by_topic, nice_recent_guidance. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 717 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Nice Guidance MCP server still maintained?
Nice Guidance 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 Nice Guidance MCP server under?
Nice Guidance declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.