# io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor (npm · setup-doctor)

Score and improve your AI coding agent setup. Local-only, open source.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-04

## Components

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

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `setup-doctor`
- Version: `0.3.3`
- 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 2026-10-04.

- **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 105 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 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 251 tokens (~125/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% 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 2 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 io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor MCP server?

io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y setup-doctor. 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 saxenakapil-setup-doctor -- npx -y setup-doctor
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "saxenakapil-setup-doctor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "setup-doctor"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "saxenakapil-setup-doctor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "setup-doctor"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add saxenakapil-setup-doctor -- npx -y setup-doctor
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add saxenakapil-setup-doctor --command npx --arg -y --arg setup-doctor
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  saxenakapil-setup-doctor:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "setup-doctor"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "saxenakapil-setup-doctor": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "setup-doctor"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add saxenakapil-setup-doctor -t stdio -c npx -a -y setup-doctor
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "saxenakapil-setup-doctor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "setup-doctor"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-04 (score 70, +1)

- [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 improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.07
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.3.2 → 0.3.3

### 2026-10-03 (score 69, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-02 (score 54)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `doctor` (~116 tokens)

Setup Doctor

Audit an AI coding agent setup (Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI or Cursor) and return a 0-100 score with concrete findings. Read-only: never modifies files.

Input parameters:

- `agent` (string): Which agent setup to check. Defaults to auto-detect.
- `minSeverity` (string): Hide findings below this severity. The score itself is unaffected.
- `path` (string): Project directory to audit. Defaults to the current directory.
- `scope` (string): Which locations to check. Defaults to all.

### `wrapped` (~135 tokens)

Setup Doctor Wrapped

Summarize local AI coding agent usage (sessions, active days, tokens, an API-equivalent cost estimate, a persona label) from session logs already on disk. Read-only, local-only: never sends anything over the network.

Input parameters:

- `agent` (string): Which agent. Defaults to claude.
- `anonymize` (boolean): Hide project names. Defaults to false.
- `period` (string): 7d | 30d | ytd | all | YYYY-MM-DD:YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to 30d.
- `tz` (string): IANA timezone for day boundaries. Defaults to the local timezone.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-04: 70
- 2026-10-03: 69
- 2026-10-02: 54

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor MCP server?

io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor. Score and improve your AI coding agent setup. Local-only, open source. This page covers its npm package (setup-doctor).

### Is the io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor MCP server safe to use?

io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 October 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.saxenakapil/setup-doctor MCP server expose?

io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor exposes 2 tools: doctor, wrapped. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 251 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor MCP server still maintained?

io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 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 io.github.saxenakapil/setup-doctor MCP server under?

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