# ToolDrift MCP (npm · tooldrift-mcp)

ToolDrift: Current AI model pricing and which models coding tools route to.

- Trust score: 66/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-17

## Components

- npm · `tooldrift-mcp`: 66/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-thecompound-tooldrift/tooldrift-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-thecompound-tooldrift/tooldrift-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `tooldrift-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 2026-10-17.

- **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.
  - 39 of 120 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 19/100
  - Repository check failed: the declared repository URL returned HTTP 404.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 11 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 80/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 163 tokens (~163/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **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 1 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.

**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.

## Install

### How do I install the ToolDrift MCP server?

ToolDrift MCP runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y tooldrift-mcp. 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 tech-thecompound-tooldrift -- npx -y tooldrift-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tech-thecompound-tooldrift": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tooldrift-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "tech-thecompound-tooldrift": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tooldrift-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add tech-thecompound-tooldrift -- npx -y tooldrift-mcp
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tech-thecompound-tooldrift --command npx --arg -y --arg tooldrift-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tech-thecompound-tooldrift:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "tooldrift-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tech-thecompound-tooldrift": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "tooldrift-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tech-thecompound-tooldrift -t stdio -c npx -a -y tooldrift-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tech-thecompound-tooldrift": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tooldrift-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.

### 2026-10-16 (score 66, −5)

- [security regression] Source repository: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-10-14 (score 71, +33)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: excellent
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: pass
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100

### 2026-10-12 (score 38)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `compare_ai_models` (~163 tokens)

Compare current AI model pricing and rankings

Read ToolDrift, which tracks AI model pricing and which models the major AI-powered apps actually route to, sampled nightly. Use when asked which model to use, what a model costs now, or what changed recently — model pricing moves faster than any training cutoff, so answering from memory is reliably wrong.

Input parameters:

- `board` (string): Which ranking to read, as "scope/key". Budget bands: budget/free, budget/value, budget/balanced, budget/premium. Per-tool routing: tool/claude-code, tool/codex-cli, tool/cline, tool/aider, tool/roo-c…
- `limit` (number): How many models to return, 1-10. Default 10.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-thecompound-tooldrift/tooldrift-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-17: 66
- 2026-10-16: 66
- 2026-10-15: 71
- 2026-10-14: 71
- 2026-10-13: 38
- 2026-10-12: 38

## Common questions

### What is the ToolDrift MCP server?

ToolDrift MCP is listed in the public MCP registry as tech.thecompound/tooldrift. ToolDrift: Current AI model pricing and which models coding tools route to. This page covers its npm package (tooldrift-mcp).

### Is the ToolDrift MCP server safe to use?

ToolDrift MCP scores 66 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 17 October 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 ToolDrift MCP server expose?

ToolDrift MCP exposes 1 tool: compare_ai_models. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 163 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the ToolDrift MCP server still maintained?

ToolDrift MCP is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 17 October 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 ToolDrift MCP server under?

ToolDrift MCP 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/tooldrift-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/tooldrift-mcp
- Website: https://tooldrift.thecompound.tech/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-thecompound-tooldrift/tooldrift-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-thecompound-tooldrift/tooldrift-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-thecompound-tooldrift/tooldrift-mcp