ProvenTools
NPM · @PROVENTOOLS/MCP
Read-only ProvenTools business ideas, evidence, build prompts, and validation reports.
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Last scanned (20 hours ago)
Scores higher than 92% of npm servers
Category Project Management
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 & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to proventools/agent-clients). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 65 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability73
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 1019 tokens (~84/item across 12 items; 12 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage76
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 27% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 12 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 13 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities20
- Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
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.
- 16 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 15 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 13 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 2 Oct 26 −3
- Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
- 1 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 30 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 28 Sept 26 +1
- We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
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 16 Oct 2026 · Analysed npm/@proventools/mcp@0.1.0-beta.3
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 | proventools/agent-clients |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/proventools/agent-clients/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 2423058772 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:255420ad5ec32cb169748cfe3ac61f22fd214e7ab140082a334eccdeb87156623f557352adb4628a2b9bfa5e0d6a29b5c2c9378edeff4960b3536647f |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| 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 →
compare_ideas ~80
Compare two to ten stored ideas and their ProvenScores. Credit cost: 0. Depending on server configuration, ProvenTools may send any natural-language input and selected stored idea fields to OpenAI for semantic retrieval and bounded answer synthesis; otherwise it uses PostgreSQL retrieval and deterministic text.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ideaIds | array | yes | – |
| query | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
discover_ideas ~155
Discover stored ideas from a natural-language brief. Credit cost: 0. Depending on server configuration, ProvenTools may send any natural-language input and selected stored idea fields to OpenAI for semantic retrieval and bounded answer synthesis; otherwise it uses PostgreSQL retrieval and deterministic text.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| confidence | array | – | – |
| difficulties | array | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| maximumBudgetUsd | number | – | – |
| maximumBuildWeeks | number | – | – |
| maximumScore | number | – | – |
| minimumScore | number | – | – |
| opportunityTypes | array | – | – |
| platforms | array | – | – |
| query | string | yes | What you want to build or compare. |
| validationStates | array | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
explain_idea_score ~72
Explain one stored ProvenScore and its subscores. Credit cost: 0. Depending on server configuration, ProvenTools may send any natural-language input and selected stored idea fields to OpenAI for semantic retrieval and bounded answer synthesis; otherwise it uses PostgreSQL retrieval and deterministic text.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_build_prompt ~48
Get the agent-ready build prompt for one curated idea. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | The idea id returned by search_ideas. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_credit_balance ~34
Get Live credit balances, expiry, usage, and activity. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_idea ~48
Get the full read-only breakdown for one curated idea. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | The idea id returned by search_ideas. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_idea_evidence ~75
Get the latest stored evidence and ProvenScore history for one idea. This never starts live research. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| historyLimit | integer | – | Maximum score snapshots to return (default 12). |
| id | string | yes | The idea id returned by search_ideas. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_validation_report ~51
Get the current status or stored result for one of your validation jobs. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | A validation id from your ProvenTools account. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
recommend_ideas ~156
Recommend stored ideas using structured filters plus semantic retrieval. Credit cost: 0. Depending on server configuration, ProvenTools may send any natural-language input and selected stored idea fields to OpenAI for semantic retrieval and bounded answer synthesis; otherwise it uses PostgreSQL retrieval and deterministic text.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| confidence | array | – | – |
| difficulties | array | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| maximumBudgetUsd | number | – | – |
| maximumBuildWeeks | number | – | – |
| maximumScore | number | – | – |
| minimumScore | number | – | – |
| opportunityTypes | array | – | – |
| platforms | array | – | – |
| query | string | yes | What you want to build or compare. |
| validationStates | array | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_ideas ~75
Search and filter the ProvenTools curated idea library. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Exact category name. |
| difficulty | string | – | Easy, Medium, or Hard. |
| page | integer | – | Results page. |
| query | string | – | Words to search for. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
shortlist_ideas ~154
Create a ranked shortlist from stored ideas. Credit cost: 0. Depending on server configuration, ProvenTools may send any natural-language input and selected stored idea fields to OpenAI for semantic retrieval and bounded answer synthesis; otherwise it uses PostgreSQL retrieval and deterministic text.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| confidence | array | – | – |
| difficulties | array | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| maximumBudgetUsd | number | – | – |
| maximumBuildWeeks | number | – | – |
| maximumScore | number | – | – |
| minimumScore | number | – | – |
| opportunityTypes | array | – | – |
| platforms | array | – | – |
| query | string | yes | What you want to build or compare. |
| validationStates | array | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
whats_new ~30
See the latest ProvenTools monthly idea drop. Credit cost: 0. Reads stored ProvenTools data only.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the ProvenTools MCP server?
ProvenTools runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @proventools/mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @proventools/mcp
claude mcp add proventools-proventools -- npx -y @proventools/mcp
What is the ProvenTools MCP server?
ProvenTools is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.proventools/proventools. Read-only ProvenTools business ideas, evidence, build prompts, and validation reports. This page covers its npm package (@proventools/mcp).
Is the ProvenTools MCP server safe to use?
ProvenTools scores 90 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 16 October 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 ProvenTools MCP server expose?
ProvenTools exposes 12 tools: search_ideas, get_idea, get_build_prompt, whats_new, get_idea_evidence, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 978 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the ProvenTools MCP server still maintained?
ProvenTools is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 16 October 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 ProvenTools MCP server under?
ProvenTools declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.