Sensegrep
NPM · @SENSEGREP/MCP
Semantic + structural code search MCP server for AI-native development.
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Last scanned (10 hours ago)
Scores higher than 92% of npm servers
Category Code Search and Documentation
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 Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- Known CVEs were checked across the 177 of 178 dependencies we could resolve, so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree.Partial
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- Dependency health was assessed across the 177 of 178 dependencies we could resolve, so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to Stahldavid/sensegrep). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability47
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1721 tokens (~344/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 Management87
- Stability observed for 26 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 5 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
Checks we ran (16)
- Malware scan
- Known CVEs
- Install scripts
- Dependency health
- Source repository
- Provenance
- License
- Maintenance
- Security disclosure
- Schema quality
- Stability
- Tool coverage
- Injection markers
- Destructive annotations
- Judged manipulation
- MCP protocol
Does not apply to this package (2)
- Endpoint SecurityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
- Transport & ReachabilityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
The score does not measure everything. What the score does not measure →
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.
- 6 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 5 Nov 26 −3
- Stability: pass → 0.83 functional
- 30 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 29 Oct 26 −1
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 23 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 22 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 21 Oct 26 −1
- Security disclosure: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- 19 Oct 26 +1
- Security disclosure: unverified → pass ▲ 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 6 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@sensegrep/mcp@1.5.3
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 | Stahldavid/sensegrep |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/Stahldavid/sensegrep/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 1734610516 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:e6fcd42d89f5bd14fecfff4646640512aba346adc48c8e04276111d63c0d5bb6275a0db5b2b313cd443a1569c108ea43ef856e58f3881fe6115c10a10 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 177 packages
| Packages resolved | 177 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 41 |
| Tree resolution | Partial |
The dependency tree was only partially resolved, so these counts may be incomplete.
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 →
sensegrep_cluster ~480
Semantic code clustering. Breaks a broad query into coherent subthemes using embeddings + AST metadata and returns representative snippets.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| clusterThreshold | number | – | Similarity threshold for linking matches (default: 0.72) |
| decorator | string | – | Filter by decorator (@Autowired, @Deprecated, @Inject, @NotNull, @Nullable...) |
| exclude | string | – | File glob exclude filter (e.g., '*.md' or 'docs/**') |
| hasDocumentation | boolean | – | Require documentation |
| imports | string | – | Filter by imported module name |
| include | string | – | File glob include filter (e.g., 'src/**/*.ts') |
| isAbstract | boolean | – | Only abstract classes/methods |
| isAsync | boolean | – | Only async functions/methods |
| isExported | boolean | – | Only exported symbols |
| isStatic | boolean | – | Only static methods |
| language | string | – | Filter by programming language |
| limit | number | – | Max clusters to return (default: 5) |
| maxComplexity | number | – | Maximum cyclomatic complexity |
| minClusterSize | number | – | Minimum cluster size before singleton fallback (default: 2) |
| minComplexity | number | – | Minimum cyclomatic complexity |
| minScore | number | – | Minimum relevance score 0-1 |
| name | string | – | Alias for symbol name |
| parentScope | string | – | Parent scope/class name |
| pattern | string | – | Optional regex pattern filter |
| perCluster | number | – | Representative snippets per cluster (default: 2) |
| query | string | yes | Natural-language theme query to decompose into clusters |
| rawLimit | number | – | Raw matches to gather before clustering (default: 70) |
| rootDir | string | – | Root directory (default: cwd) |
| shake | boolean | – | Enable tree-shaken representative snippets |
| symbol | string | – | Filter by symbol name |
| symbolType | string | – | Semantic symbol type |
| variant | string | – | Language-specific variant. Available: abstract (typescript/python/java/vue), alias (typescript/vue), annotation (java), arrow (typescript/javascript/vue), async (typescript/javascript/python/vue), cl… |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sensegrep_detect_duplicates ~288
Detect logical duplicates using the existing semantic index.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| crossFileOnly | boolean | – | Only report cross-file duplicates |
| crossLanguage | boolean | – | Detect duplicates across languages (default: off) |
| excludePattern | string | – | Exclude symbols matching regex |
| ignoreAcceptablePatterns | boolean | – | Do not ignore acceptable duplicates |
| ignoreTests | boolean | – | Ignore test files |
| json | boolean | – | Return raw JSON result |
| language | string | – | Filter by language (comma-separated) |
| limit | number | – | Max duplicates to show (default: 10) |
| minComplexity | number | – | Minimum complexity (default: 0) |
| minLines | number | – | Minimum lines (default: 10) |
| normalizeIdentifiers | boolean | – | Normalize identifiers (default: true) |
| onlyExported | boolean | – | Only exported symbols |
| quiet | boolean | – | Only show summary |
| rankByImpact | boolean | – | Rank by impact (default: true) |
| rootDir | string | – | Root directory (default: cwd) |
| scope | string | – | Scope: function, method, all (or comma-separated) |
| showCode | boolean | – | Show code snippets |
| threshold | number | – | Minimum similarity 0.0-1.0 (default: 0.85) |
| verbose | boolean | – | Show detailed output |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sensegrep_index ~67
Create/update semantic index or fetch index stats for the given root directory.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| action | string | – | Operation type: index (default) or stats |
| mode | string | – | Index mode when action=index (default: incremental) |
| rootDir | string | – | Root directory to index |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sensegrep_search ~446
Semantic + structural code search. Languages: typescript, javascript, python, java, vue
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| decorator | string | – | Filter by decorator (@Autowired, @Deprecated, @Inject, @NotNull, @Nullable...) |
| exclude | string | – | File glob exclude filter (e.g., '*.md' or 'docs/**') |
| hasDocumentation | boolean | – | Require documentation |
| imports | string | – | Filter by imported module name |
| include | string | – | File glob include filter (e.g., 'src/**/*.ts') |
| isAbstract | boolean | – | Only abstract classes/methods |
| isAsync | boolean | – | Only async functions/methods |
| isExported | boolean | – | Only exported symbols |
| isStatic | boolean | – | Only static methods |
| language | string | – | Filter by programming language |
| limit | number | – | Max results (default: 20) |
| maxComplexity | number | – | Maximum cyclomatic complexity |
| maxPerFile | number | – | Max results per file (default: 1) |
| maxPerSymbol | number | – | Max results per symbol (default: 1) |
| minComplexity | number | – | Minimum cyclomatic complexity |
| minScore | number | – | Minimum relevance score 0-1 |
| name | string | – | Alias for symbol name |
| parentScope | string | – | Parent scope/class name |
| pattern | string | – | Regex pattern filter |
| query | string | yes | Semantic search query: pass a natural-language sentence/text or a code snippet, not isolated keywords |
| rerank | boolean | – | Compatibility flag. Remote-only mode keeps semantic ranking unchanged |
| rootDir | string | – | Root directory (default: cwd) |
| symbol | string | – | Filter by symbol name |
| symbolType | string | – | Semantic symbol type |
| variant | string | – | Language-specific variant. Available: abstract (typescript/python/java/vue), alias (typescript/vue), annotation (java), arrow (typescript/javascript/vue), async (typescript/javascript/python/vue), cl… |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sensegrep_survey ~440
Theme-oriented code survey. Groups semantically related hits into reading domains and returns representative tree-shaken snippets.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| decorator | string | – | Filter by decorator (@Autowired, @Deprecated, @Inject, @NotNull, @Nullable...) |
| exclude | string | – | File glob exclude filter (e.g., '*.md' or 'docs/**') |
| hasDocumentation | boolean | – | Require documentation |
| imports | string | – | Filter by imported module name |
| include | string | – | File glob include filter (e.g., 'src/**/*.ts') |
| isAbstract | boolean | – | Only abstract classes/methods |
| isAsync | boolean | – | Only async functions/methods |
| isExported | boolean | – | Only exported symbols |
| isStatic | boolean | – | Only static methods |
| language | string | – | Filter by programming language |
| limit | number | – | Max groups to return (default: 5) |
| maxComplexity | number | – | Maximum cyclomatic complexity |
| minComplexity | number | – | Minimum cyclomatic complexity |
| minScore | number | – | Minimum relevance score 0-1 |
| name | string | – | Alias for symbol name |
| parentScope | string | – | Parent scope/class name |
| pattern | string | – | Optional regex pattern filter |
| perGroup | number | – | Representative snippets per group (default: 2) |
| query | string | yes | Natural-language theme query to map a domain or feature area |
| rawLimit | number | – | Raw matches to gather before grouping (default: 60) |
| rootDir | string | – | Root directory (default: cwd) |
| shake | boolean | – | Enable tree-shaken representative snippets |
| symbol | string | – | Filter by symbol name |
| symbolType | string | – | Semantic symbol type |
| variant | string | – | Language-specific variant. Available: abstract (typescript/python/java/vue), alias (typescript/vue), annotation (java), arrow (typescript/javascript/vue), async (typescript/javascript/python/vue), cl… |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Sensegrep MCP server?
Sensegrep runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @sensegrep/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 · @sensegrep/mcp
claude mcp add stahldavid-sensegrep -- npx -y @sensegrep/mcp
What is the Sensegrep MCP server?
Sensegrep is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Stahldavid/sensegrep. Semantic + structural code search MCP server for AI-native development. This page covers its npm package (@sensegrep/mcp).
Is the Sensegrep MCP server safe to use?
Sensegrep scores 88 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 Sensegrep MCP server expose?
Sensegrep exposes 5 tools: sensegrep_search, sensegrep_survey, sensegrep_cluster, sensegrep_detect_duplicates, sensegrep_index. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,721 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Sensegrep MCP server still maintained?
Sensegrep is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 6 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 Sensegrep MCP server under?
Sensegrep declares the Apache-2.0 licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.
What did VerifyMCP test on the Sensegrep MCP server?
VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Sensegrep, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.