# Second Read (pypi · second-read)

Reviews drafts: fact-checks claims against web sources and builds the strongest counter-case.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +20
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- pypi · `second-read`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sbanthia92-second-read/second-read.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sbanthia92-second-read/second-read)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `second-read`
- Version: `0.1.4`
- 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 2026-11-04.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 2 of 40 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to sbanthia92/second-read).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 6 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 67/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 252 tokens (~252/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 30/100
  - Stability observed for 9 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 1 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 current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Second Read MCP server?

Second Read runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx second-read. 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 sbanthia92-second-read -- uvx second-read
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sbanthia92-second-read": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "second-read"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "sbanthia92-second-read": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "second-read"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add sbanthia92-second-read -- uvx second-read
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "sbanthia92-second-read": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "second-read"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add sbanthia92-second-read --command uvx --arg second-read
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  sbanthia92-second-read:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["second-read"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "sbanthia92-second-read": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "second-read"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add sbanthia92-second-read -t stdio -c uvx -a second-read
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sbanthia92-second-read": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "second-read"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 67, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional improvement] Security disclosure: fail → pass

### 2026-10-29 (score 81, +32)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.10
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.3 → 0.1.4

### 2026-10-28 (score 49, −30)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Malware scan: 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] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.3 → 0.1.4

### 2026-10-27 (score 79, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-26 (score 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `review_document` (~192 tokens)

Review a document draft with a desk of specialist agents: a fact-checker that cites sources, a devil's advocate that builds the strongest counter-case, a structure reviewer, a copy editor and an originality check. Returns a markdown report (must fix, counter-case, should fix, polish, originality notes, claim ledger). Pass exactly one of `content` (the text or markdown) or `url` (a public page). Reviews take a few minutes.

Input parameters:

- `content`: The document text or markdown. Give this or `url`, not both.
- `focus`: Optional steer, e.g. "check the financial figures".
- `profile` (string): `auto` (detect), `opinion` (essays, op-eds, posts) or `design_doc` (technical designs and proposals).
- `url`: A public http(s) page to fetch and review, instead of `content`.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sbanthia92-second-read/second-read#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 69
- 2026-11-03: 69
- 2026-11-02: 68
- 2026-11-01: 68
- 2026-10-31: 67
- 2026-10-30: 67
- 2026-10-29: 81
- 2026-10-28: 49
- 2026-10-27: 79
- 2026-10-26: 64

## Common questions

### What is the Second Read MCP server?

Second Read is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.sbanthia92/second-read. Reviews drafts: fact-checks claims against web sources and builds the strongest counter-case. This page covers its PyPI package (second-read).

### Is the Second Read MCP server safe to use?

Second Read scores 69 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 November 2026. 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 Second Read MCP server expose?

Second Read exposes 1 tool: review_document. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 192 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Second Read MCP server still maintained?

Second Read 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 Second Read MCP server under?

Second Read 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

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/second-read/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/second-read
- Repository: https://github.com/sbanthia92/second-read
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sbanthia92-second-read/second-read.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sbanthia92-second-read/second-read.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sbanthia92-second-read/second-read