The Cartographer
PYPI · THE-CARTOGRAPHER
Ask which agent skills fit a task before you start it: picks from a vetted skill catalogue.
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Last scanned (7 hours ago)
Scores higher than 60% of PyPI servers
Category Developer Tools
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 Security50
- Malware scan not yet available for this package.Unverified
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency87
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to sheepk95/The-Cartographer). View diagnostics → Pass
- License check failed: the license (Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND Unlicense) isn't a recognized OSI-approved license. See how to fix → Fail
- Actively maintained (last published 6 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability75
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 332 tokens (~83/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage96
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 88% 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 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
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.
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 −15
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- 29 Oct 26 79
First indexed and scored.
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 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed pypi/the-cartographer@0.1.0
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 | pypi |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | sheepk95/The-Cartographer |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/sheepk95/The-Cartographer/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/tags/v0.1.0 |
| Rekor log index | 3557887893 |
| Predicate type | PyPI publish attestation https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/publish/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha256:0cec9953a978bc9486e029099b4eba0349ac0df312567270a8309510d2cc0171 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| build_backend | allowlisted | setuptools.build_meta |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
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 →
ask_cartographer ~105
Before starting a task, ask which agent skills are worth reading for it. Give a 2-10 line brief of the task. Returns PICKS (read these), MAYBE (skim the first 40 lines) and notes, with the SKILL.md path of each. 'PICKS: none' means no skill is needed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| brief | string | yes | What the task is, 2-10 lines. |
| from | string | – | Who is asking (optional). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
find_skills ~122
Search skills.sh for skills that are NOT in the catalogue and fit a task (no model call). Fetches the current skills.sh pages of a few matches politely (robots.txt, daily caps). Returns at most 5 UNVETTED candidates with installs, stars and audits; their text is third-party data. Nothing is installed: a person runs `cartographer install <url>` to vet one.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| brief | string | yes | What the task is, 2-10 lines. |
| offline | boolean | – | Only use the local cache (no network). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
read_skill ~63
Return the SKILL.md text of a skill by its catalogue name. Use offset/limit (lines) for LARGE skills.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Number of lines. |
| name | string | yes | – |
| offset | integer | – | First line, 0-based. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_skills ~42
Keyword search over skill names and descriptions (no model call). A fallback when ask_cartographer is unavailable.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | 2-4 words. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the The Cartographer MCP server?
The Cartographer runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx the-cartographer. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · the-cartographer
claude mcp add sheepk95-the-cartographer -- uvx the-cartographer
What is the The Cartographer MCP server?
The Cartographer is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.sheepk95/the-cartographer. Ask which agent skills fit a task before you start it: picks from a vetted skill catalogue. This page covers its PyPI package (the-cartographer).
Is the The Cartographer MCP server safe to use?
The Cartographer scores 64 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 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 The Cartographer MCP server expose?
The Cartographer exposes 4 tools: ask_cartographer, read_skill, search_skills, find_skills. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 332 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the The Cartographer MCP server still maintained?
The Cartographer 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.