# io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel (pypi · license-sentinel)

Audit Python and npm dependency licenses before you ship, judged against how you distribute.

- Trust score: 58/100 (low)
- Change this week: −10
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- pypi · `license-sentinel`: 58/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/wgd5678-license-sentinel/license-sentinel.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/wgd5678-license-sentinel/license-sentinel)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `license-sentinel`
- 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 2026-09-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it.
  - 1 of 29 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 32/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - License check failed: the license (MIT License) isn't a recognized OSI-approved license.
  - Actively maintained (last published 11 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 87/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 374 tokens (~124/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 40/100
  - Stability observed for 12 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel MCP server?

io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx license-sentinel. 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 wgd5678-license-sentinel -- uvx license-sentinel
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wgd5678-license-sentinel": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "license-sentinel"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "wgd5678-license-sentinel": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "license-sentinel"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add wgd5678-license-sentinel -- uvx license-sentinel
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "wgd5678-license-sentinel": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "license-sentinel"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add wgd5678-license-sentinel --command uvx --arg license-sentinel
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  wgd5678-license-sentinel:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["license-sentinel"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "wgd5678-license-sentinel": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "license-sentinel"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add wgd5678-license-sentinel -t stdio -c uvx -a license-sentinel
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wgd5678-license-sentinel": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "license-sentinel"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-09-19 (score 58, +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 57, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-09-16 (score 72, +19)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.27

### 2026-09-14 (score 53, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-09-09 (score 68, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-09-08 (score 53)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `audit_project` (~135 tokens)

Scan a project's dependencies and report licensing risk.

Args:
    path: Project directory to scan. Defaults to the current directory.
    context: How you distribute your product. One of
        ``proprietary`` (closed-source product you distribute),
        ``saas-backend`` (you only run it, never distribute),
        ``permissive`` (your own project is MIT/Apache/BSD),
        ``copyleft-ok`` (your own project is GPL family).

Returns:
    Counts per verdict plus every BLOCK and REVIEW item with the reason.

Input parameters:

- `context` (string)
- `path` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `check_package` (~161 tokens)

Check packages or raw license strings before installing them.

Args:
    names: Package or license strings to check. Accepts the messy real-world
        forms: ``AGPL-3.0``, ``BUSL-1.1``, ``GPLv3``, ``Apache License 2.0``,
        ``MIT OR Apache-2.0``, or a comma-separated string of any of these.
        These are license strings, not package lookups: to audit what is
        actually installed in a project directory, use ``audit_project``.
    context: Distribution context, see ``audit_project``.

Returns:
    One line per input with its verdict and the reason.

Input parameters:

- `context` (string)
- `names` (required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `generate_notices` (~78 tokens)

Write a THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md attribution document for client hand-off.

Args:
    path: Project directory to scan.
    output: Output file. Relative paths are resolved against ``path``.

Returns:
    The absolute path written and how many dependencies were listed.

Input parameters:

- `output` (string)
- `path` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/wgd5678-license-sentinel/license-sentinel#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 58
- 2026-09-19: 58
- 2026-09-18: 57
- 2026-09-17: 72
- 2026-09-16: 72
- 2026-09-15: 53
- 2026-09-14: 53
- 2026-09-13: 68
- 2026-09-12: 68
- 2026-09-11: 68
- 2026-09-10: 68
- 2026-09-09: 68
- 2026-09-08: 53

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel MCP server?

io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel. Audit Python and npm dependency licenses before you ship, judged against how you distribute. This page covers its PyPI package (license-sentinel).

### Is the io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel MCP server safe to use?

io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel scores 58 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. 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.wgd5678/license-sentinel MCP server expose?

io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel exposes 3 tools: audit_project, check_package, generate_notices. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 374 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel MCP server still maintained?

io.github.wgd5678/license-sentinel 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.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/license-sentinel/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/license-sentinel
- Repository: https://github.com/wgd5678/license-sentinel
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/wgd5678-license-sentinel/license-sentinel.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/wgd5678-license-sentinel/license-sentinel.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/wgd5678-license-sentinel/license-sentinel