# io.github.starter-series/create-starter (npm · starter-series)

Scaffold Starter Series projects and check release, deployment, security, and agent instructions.

- Trust score: 87/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- npm · `starter-series`: 87/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/starter-series-create-starter/starter-series.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/starter-series-create-starter/starter-series)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `starter-series`
- Version: `0.5.3`
- 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 2026-09-20.

- **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.
  - 34 of 102 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to starter-series/create-starter).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 8 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 78/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1081 tokens (~120/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 37/100
  - Stability observed for 11 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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 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.starter-series/create-starter MCP server?

io.github.starter-series/create-starter runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y starter-series. 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 starter-series-create-starter -- npx -y starter-series
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "starter-series-create-starter": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "starter-series"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "starter-series-create-starter": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "starter-series"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add starter-series-create-starter -- npx -y starter-series
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add starter-series-create-starter --command npx --arg -y --arg starter-series
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  starter-series-create-starter:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "starter-series"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "starter-series-create-starter": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "starter-series"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add starter-series-create-starter -t stdio -c npx -a -y starter-series
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "starter-series-create-starter": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "starter-series"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-09-20 (score 87, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 86, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-16 (score 85, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-14 (score 84, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-12 (score 83, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-09-11 (score 67, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [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: 0.5.2 → 0.5.3

### 2026-09-10 (score 81, +10)

- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → 0.84

### 2026-09-09 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `list_templates` (~16 tokens)

List all available Starter Series project templates

Output parameters:

- `templates` (array)

### `create_project` (~106 tokens)

Scaffold a new project from a Starter Series template

Input parameters:

- `description` (string): One-line project description
- `init_git` (boolean): Initialize a fresh git repo after scaffold (default: true)
- `name` (string, required): Project name (alphanumeric start, '-' or '_' only)
- `output_dir` (string): Output directory (defaults to ./<name>, relative to the MCP server's cwd)
- `template` (string, required): Template ID (use list_templates to see options)

Output parameters:

- `filesExtracted` (number)
- `filesReplaced` (number)
- `gitInitialized` (boolean)
- `path` (string)

### `audit_release` (~90 tokens)

Audit a local repo for release-readiness against the Starter Series quality bar. Detects matched starter, CHANGELOG drift vs merged PRs, version-bump status, and publish-workflow presence. Read-only; never mutates the repo.

Input parameters:

- `path` (string): Path to the repo to audit (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.

Output parameters:

- `changelog` (object)
- `matchedStarter` (object)
- `publishWorkflow` (object)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `shipReady` (object)
- `version` (object)

### `audit_cd` (~110 tokens)

Check whether the local repo's version has been published to its destination registries (npm, PyPI, Open VSX, VS Marketplace, AMO, GitHub Releases). Makes outbound HTTPS requests to public registry APIs; never mutates. Reports per-destination drift (in-sync / needs-publish / local-stale / not-found).

Input parameters:

- `path` (string): Path to the repo to audit (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.

Output parameters:

- `destinations` (array)
- `localVersion` (string|null)
- `matchedStarter` (object)
- `overall` (object)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `versionSource`

### `audit_security` (~102 tokens)

Audit a local repo for baseline security CI hygiene against the Starter Series quality bar: gitleaks, CodeQL, dependency audit, license check, --ignore-scripts, Dependabot, secret-scanning hints, claude-code-security-review Action, and claude-security-guidance.md. Read-only.

Input parameters:

- `path` (string): Path to the repo to audit (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.

Output parameters:

- `checks` (array)
- `ecosystem` (string)
- `overall` (object)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `summary` (object)

### `audit_instructions` (~105 tokens)

Check local instruction discovery, source topology, exact duplicates/overlap, owner decisions and previous-run delta. Read-only by default; update_state explicitly saves the baseline, never source instructions. No semantic or safety enforcement.

Input parameters:

- `path` (string): Path to the repo to audit (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.
- `update_state` (boolean): Explicitly save the current instruction delta baseline; default false.

Output parameters:

- `duplicates` (array)
- `files` (array)
- `overall` (object)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `review` (object)
- `riskSummaries` (array)
- `surfaceOverlaps` (array)
- `topology` (object)

### `generate_launch_proof_report` (~135 tokens)

Run audit_release, audit_cd, audit_security, and audit_instructions together, then return a client-ready Markdown Launch Proof Report. Read-only by default; set write=true to write launch-proof-report.md or output_path inside the target repo.

Input parameters:

- `output_path` (string): Report file path. Relative paths are resolved inside the target repo. Ignored unless write=true.
- `path` (string): Path to the repo to audit (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.
- `write` (boolean): Write the Markdown report to disk. Default false.

Output parameters:

- `blockers` (array)
- `gates` (array)
- `generatedAt` (string)
- `markdown` (string)
- `outputPath` (string|null)
- `overall` (object)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `warnings` (array)

### `add_component` (~279 tokens)

Lift a starter's CI/CD layer into an EXISTING repo without re-scaffolding — the remediation half of the audit loop (audit_security/audit_release diagnose; this installs the missing files from the matching starter). Components: ci (.github/workflows/ci.yml), security (codeql.yml + SECURITY.md), dependabot (dependabot.yml + auto-merge), maintenance (stale + weekly health check), or all. DRY-RUN BY DEFAULT: returns a per-file plan (create / identical / skip-exists / overwrite) and writes nothing until dry_run is false. Existing-but-different files are skipped unless force — so the dry-run plan doubles as a drift report against the starter. Never touches app code or secrets-bearing CD workflows.

Input parameters:

- `component` (string): Which group to lift (default: all).
- `dry_run` (boolean): Preview only (default true). Set false to write the planned files.
- `force` (boolean): Overwrite files that differ from the starter AND allow applying onto a dirty git tree. Default false.
- `path` (string): Path to the repo (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.
- `starter` (string): Template id to lift from (see list_templates). Auto-detected from the repo when omitted.

Output parameters:

- `component` (string)
- `dryRun` (boolean)
- `plan` (array)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `starter` (string)
- `starterSource` (string)
- `warnings` (array)
- `written` (array)

### `seed_security_guidance` (~138 tokens)

Generate a starter `claude-security-guidance.md` at the repo root, tailored to the detected Starter Series template. The file is consumed in-session by Anthropic's Claude Code Security Guidance Plugin (released 2026-05-26) as a guard while Claude writes code. Use `force: true` to overwrite an existing file.

Input parameters:

- `force` (boolean): Overwrite an existing claude-security-guidance.md. Default false (returns status='exists' instead).
- `path` (string): Path to the repo (default: the MCP server's cwd). Use the absolute path of the project the user is working in.

Output parameters:

- `bytesWritten` (number)
- `filePath` (string)
- `matchedStarter` (string|null)
- `relativePath` (string)
- `repoPath` (string)
- `status` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/starter-series-create-starter/starter-series#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 87
- 2026-09-19: 86
- 2026-09-18: 86
- 2026-09-17: 85
- 2026-09-16: 85
- 2026-09-15: 84
- 2026-09-14: 84
- 2026-09-13: 83
- 2026-09-12: 83
- 2026-09-11: 67
- 2026-09-10: 81
- 2026-09-09: 71

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.starter-series/create-starter MCP server?

io.github.starter-series/create-starter is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.starter-series/create-starter. Scaffold Starter Series projects and check release, deployment, security, and agent instructions. This page covers its npm package (starter-series).

### Is the io.github.starter-series/create-starter MCP server safe to use?

io.github.starter-series/create-starter scores 87 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 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 io.github.starter-series/create-starter MCP server expose?

io.github.starter-series/create-starter exposes 9 tools: list_templates, create_project, audit_release, audit_cd, audit_security, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,081 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the io.github.starter-series/create-starter MCP server still maintained?

io.github.starter-series/create-starter is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 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.starter-series/create-starter MCP server under?

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