# Image Reader MCP (npm · @sylphx/image-reader-mcp)

Evidence-first image MCP. Agent Media Twin with metadata and citeable OCR evidence.

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +18
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- npm · `@sylphx/image-reader-mcp`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sylphxai-image-reader-mcp/sylphx-image-reader-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sylphxai-image-reader-mcp/sylphx-image-reader-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@sylphx/image-reader-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.0`
- 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 2026-08-03.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 70/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - CVE check failed: a known high-severity CVE affects sharp 0.34.5, a direct dependency. A fixed version is available.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - Only part of the dependency tree could be resolved (125 of 129), so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree.
- **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 1 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 186 tokens (~186/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 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.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add sylphxai-image-reader-mcp -- npx -y @sylphx/image-reader-mcp
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add sylphxai-image-reader-mcp -- npx -y @sylphx/image-reader-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "sylphxai-image-reader-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/image-reader-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add sylphxai-image-reader-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg @sylphx/image-reader-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  sylphxai-image-reader-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@sylphx/image-reader-mcp"]
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sylphxai-image-reader-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/image-reader-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-08-02 (score 64, +43)

- [security regression] GHSA-f88m-g3jw-g9cj affects this package: high
- [security regression] Provenance: unverified → fail
- [security regression] Known CVEs: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Install scripts: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.23
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Maintenance: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → partial
- [functional improvement] License: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: unverified → excellent
- [functional] Licence: MIT

### 2026-08-01 (score 21, +14)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-31 (score 7, −39)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → partial

### 2026-07-29 (score 46, +21)

- [functional regression] Dependency health: partial → unverified
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100

### 2026-07-28 (score 25, −21)

- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → partial
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified

### 2026-07-27 (score 46)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `read_image` (~147 tokens)

Evidence-first image reader. Returns an Agent Media Twin with filename, mime, dimensions, metadata, optional OCR lines with bounding boxes, and trust warnings. No generative LLM is used.

Input parameters:

- `include_metadata` (boolean): Include EXIF, XMP, and IPTC metadata when present. Defaults to true.
- `include_ocr` (boolean): Attempt OCR via the local Tesseract adapter when installed. Defaults to false; gracefully skips when unavailable.
- `ocr_languages` (array): OCR language codes for Tesseract (e.g. ["eng"]). Defaults to ["eng"].
- `path` (string, required): Path to the local image file (absolute or relative to cwd).

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Vulnerabilities, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sylphxai-image-reader-mcp/sylphx-image-reader-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 64
- 2026-08-02: 64
- 2026-08-01: 21
- 2026-07-31: 7
- 2026-07-29: 46
- 2026-07-28: 25
- 2026-07-27: 46

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sylphx/image-reader-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@sylphx/image-reader-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/SylphxAI/image-reader-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sylphxai-image-reader-mcp/sylphx-image-reader-mcp/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sylphxai-image-reader-mcp/sylphx-image-reader-mcp/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sylphxai-image-reader-mcp/sylphx-image-reader-mcp